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News Digest: White Wolf Dissolved, MORE New D&D Releases Announced, RPG Now Closing (kinda), and mor
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<blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 7765901" data-attributes="member: 27252"><p>This is the official line being taken, I know. However, the counter-argument here is that the Chechnyan government have protested against the writing too. If the actual perpetrators of the persecution itself find it objectionable, it's not because they think it's being trivialised - it's because it has highlighted something they deny is happening. Their propaganda is actually claiming that they have won a 'victory' in the removal of this writing - and that is concerning to the LGBT community in Chechnya as it shows how easily the govenment can shut down dissent. </p><p></p><p>There is a worthy case, made by White Wolf in books about the Holocaust or World War 2, to not treat serious events in a trivial way by suggesting that they were caused by supernatural forces rather than human causes. In this particular example, apparently, the writers intent was compromised by an editing issue of removing sidebars explaining some thing like this. The actual text was written in character, who was unreliable and unsypathetic, and the sidebars would have apparently countered his view. I don't think the intent was to trivialise the situation, as the tone of the writing still suggests. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, I think I must move on from this one now. Let's hope next year is a better year for gaming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TrippyHippy, post: 7765901, member: 27252"] This is the official line being taken, I know. However, the counter-argument here is that the Chechnyan government have protested against the writing too. If the actual perpetrators of the persecution itself find it objectionable, it's not because they think it's being trivialised - it's because it has highlighted something they deny is happening. Their propaganda is actually claiming that they have won a 'victory' in the removal of this writing - and that is concerning to the LGBT community in Chechnya as it shows how easily the govenment can shut down dissent. There is a worthy case, made by White Wolf in books about the Holocaust or World War 2, to not treat serious events in a trivial way by suggesting that they were caused by supernatural forces rather than human causes. In this particular example, apparently, the writers intent was compromised by an editing issue of removing sidebars explaining some thing like this. The actual text was written in character, who was unreliable and unsypathetic, and the sidebars would have apparently countered his view. I don't think the intent was to trivialise the situation, as the tone of the writing still suggests. Anyway, I think I must move on from this one now. Let's hope next year is a better year for gaming. [/QUOTE]
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