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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8908267" data-attributes="member: 6802378">I can understand the part about to nothing of hateful speech, but here we can't agree about the limits. For example the vampires from Ixalan setting wear helms as the morrion used by the Spanish conquerors. Then I can say a story where the villains are ersatz of Spanish conquerors are promoting the Hispanophobia and the black legend against the Spanish empire. Not everybody would agree, of course, but here we have enough troubles and a pain in the neck. Or a story set in Ravenloft where the antagonist is a "dark sinnister" style cardenal Richelieu with dark powers. Then other could say if the evil character was based in the leader or founder of a Protestant sect then that wouldn't be OK. Double standards, to use to different sticks to measure? I feel seriously offended with the image of the Vatican church in the rpg 7th Sea. Those tropes aren't only annoying, but potentially dangerous. Something allowed in 2020 could be offensive for the generation of 2035. Let's remember for example now in the current movies the characters shouldn't be smokers, but this was normal in older productions from previous decades. And the entertaiment industry should worry about to be enough ideologically neutral. One thing is to promote ethical values as the respect for the human dignity to stop bigotry, and an other different thing is to use the speculative fiction for propaganda in the cultural war.</blockquote>

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