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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8009319" data-attributes="member: 6802378">How to say this without causing controversy? I will try it.The speculative fiction may be a softer way to explain the things.The RPGs has tought us, showed how a lot of different people can cooperate to work together, and sometimes to use diplomacy and social skills to avoid innecesary fights.Do you remember the old Robin Hood's stories about the conflicts between Saxons and Normarns? Both learnt to live together peacefully as good Christians. And who cares about this now? After the fall of Roman empire Visigoths arrived Spain and takeovered the relation with the natives wasn't good. Both had got different legal codes, and mixed marriage was forbidden (good time for a historical romance novel about forbidden loves). Step by step this started to be allowed, to look the other way, turn a blind eye, and in the end, both communities become one, the Spanishs.Reporting racism isn't enough. Martin Luther King's dream wasn't only about respect and dignity, but also a dream of reconciliation and mutual trust, and everybody has to help about this, not only a part or side. And we can't forget we have to defend the respet for the human dignity, the core of our rights as citizens. Without that the rebel against authority may become a new tyrant, sometimes worse than the previous one.Do you know Charle Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge" novel, about the 1780 Gordon riots? Let's use some historical event but with characters totally different to judge the same actions with a lower level of prejudices. We could use a fantasy version of the planet of the apes, or the characters from the X-Men, used as an allegory about the minorities. Do you think any actions would be right if they are done by other characters?</blockquote>

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