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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8932713" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean in this case we knew who - WotC. They were explicit about wanting to be the final arbiters. Which means certain priorities, because they're a corporation. That means you wouldn't get a &quot;purple site&quot;-type approach, which was slanted and arcane even by far left standards. Rather you'd get an &quot;is this embarrassing&quot; approach, which, ironically, means the &quot;court of US public opinion&quot; is the main arbiter (good if you want to deal with anti-Black or anti-Asian racism, bad for any other kind of racism as it's likely to be ignored or shrugged at, for example).The lack of real acknowledgement that WotC was a more major offender here than 3PPs rings false, but I think it was a genuine concern, just not a particularly valid one. Like, someone can genuinely be worried about something, but it doesn't mean the fear is reasonable. Indeed this is one of the great issues society faces in this era - where a lot of people have unreasonable fears about unreal or basically irrelevant things and a lack of fear about real and relevant things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8932713, member: 18"] I mean in this case we knew who - WotC. They were explicit about wanting to be the final arbiters. Which means certain priorities, because they're a corporation. That means you wouldn't get a "purple site"-type approach, which was slanted and arcane even by far left standards. Rather you'd get an "is this embarrassing" approach, which, ironically, means the "court of US public opinion" is the main arbiter (good if you want to deal with anti-Black or anti-Asian racism, bad for any other kind of racism as it's likely to be ignored or shrugged at, for example). The lack of real acknowledgement that WotC was a more major offender here than 3PPs rings false, but I think it was a genuine concern, just not a particularly valid one. Like, someone can genuinely be worried about something, but it doesn't mean the fear is reasonable. Indeed this is one of the great issues society faces in this era - where a lot of people have unreasonable fears about unreal or basically irrelevant things and a lack of fear about real and relevant things. [/QUOTE]

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