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"Red Orc" American Indians and "Yellow Orc" Mongolians in D&D
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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8506236" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>As was said, there is no one size fits all answer here. How many times has that been repeated in this thread?</p><p></p><p>It depends on the issue. </p><p></p><p>But, here's the thing. Doing nothing is what we did for a freaking CENTURY. A hundred years of genre fiction, fifty years (almost) of D&D publications and we're <em>just now</em> having this conversation. It's not like this problem was never identified in the past. It was. It was just ignored because, well, D&D was an all white boys club, just like most of genre fiction, and, well, there was no reason to change. </p><p></p><p>Now there is. Enough of us have finally realized that no, it's not okay to simply ignore the issues that don't directly impact us. That's what the tyranny of the majority is. It's not groovy that we've got examples like Orcs of Thar in our library. These things are not good. They are most definitely bad. They make people feel bad. They hurt people. </p><p></p><p>I WANT my hobby to welcome everyone. And that means, in order to welcome everyone, we have to acknowledge the harms we did in the past and attempt to not repeat them in the future. </p><p></p><p>In specific? Well, give me a specific issue and I'll give you specific answer. Give me a broad, "Well, what do you want to see?" question, and I'll give you a broad, "Let's do better" answer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8506236, member: 22779"] As was said, there is no one size fits all answer here. How many times has that been repeated in this thread? It depends on the issue. But, here's the thing. Doing nothing is what we did for a freaking CENTURY. A hundred years of genre fiction, fifty years (almost) of D&D publications and we're [I]just now[/I] having this conversation. It's not like this problem was never identified in the past. It was. It was just ignored because, well, D&D was an all white boys club, just like most of genre fiction, and, well, there was no reason to change. Now there is. Enough of us have finally realized that no, it's not okay to simply ignore the issues that don't directly impact us. That's what the tyranny of the majority is. It's not groovy that we've got examples like Orcs of Thar in our library. These things are not good. They are most definitely bad. They make people feel bad. They hurt people. I WANT my hobby to welcome everyone. And that means, in order to welcome everyone, we have to acknowledge the harms we did in the past and attempt to not repeat them in the future. In specific? Well, give me a specific issue and I'll give you specific answer. Give me a broad, "Well, what do you want to see?" question, and I'll give you a broad, "Let's do better" answer. [/QUOTE]
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