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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 6209512" data-attributes="member: 9213">Bedrock, I dont want to derail the sexism thrust of the thread so I'll be brief. It was the tone of post that just rubbed me the wrong way. It was the implications that fictional creatures somehow carry as much if not more weight than actual REAL living people who exist. It was also the idea of racist = irredeemably evil. Which is not the case ESPECIALLY in the US where the first defense against the accusation of racism is "well theyre not all saints" or "Just deal with it" or "You should have a thicker skin". I'm dealing with an issue RIGHT NOW with the seeming acceptance of young white people dressing up in blackface and seeing NOTHING wrong with it at all. To the second part: I grew up in areas in NYC where if you were black and male and if you read and knew how to construct and speak in complete sentences you were considered "Acting white". Oddly enough reading Comic Books was OKAY. But anything out of the ordinary, like say the D&D Red Box or the Advanced D&D players handbook was considered a "white people's game" mainly because at the time (and still) there arent a whole lot of black people who are into RPG's. And historically having been part of several RPG forum communities? I can't say that I blame them. I see a company like Paizo purposefully looking to be more inclusive and then getting derided for it? Kinda makes me think that racial inclusion at least is a lost cause. Gender and Sexism issues are good to go I think because almost everyone at least knows someone else of the opposite gender. And these days alot of people know of at least one person who is LGBT. But I'm pretty certain that in terms of race there's not a lot of mixing. Especially of black males. So there's that. Back to the topic at hand...</blockquote>

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