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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 6209571" data-attributes="member: 6686357">Nowhere did I imply hypothetical reverse bigotry justifies bigotry. Discussing hypothetical histories were [insert race] colonized the world is just speculation. There is absolutely no line of logic where that justifies letting people get slaughtered in Sudan or using racial slurs. I meant to criticize the drow for being cartoonishly evil, and that this applies to all such fictional groups regardless of their race/gender. I wrote a topic about my dislike of always chaotic evil races elsewhere.But back onto fictional racism, my point is that fictional characters in the D&D world are free to be racist against elves and orcs, but the moment they're racist against black/gay/women people or whoever, they're considered scumbags by the other people in the game world. It's a weird double standard that doesn't accurately reflect human psychology. I would like D&D books to address the topic of racism against fantasy races and real races alike and how to maturely handle it (and not through revenge fantasy).Fantasy and scifi races were (and still are) meant to be stand-ins for humans of exotic extraction. Basically, they exist to recreate the original racist stereotypes like noble savage and exotic dancer without offending real people by saying that they're aliens/elves and that makes it okay. I don't believe it does.I feel this reflects a very deep-seated psychological problem with people: inborn prejudice. Since racism is UnPC, writers and gamers decide to project their inherent xenophobia/xenophilia onto fictional constructs instead. But it's still (vicariously) racist and those writers/gamers would be racist against real people if they weren't trained to be accepting by society.D&D is just conquistador/cowboy/crime/etc fantasy with the indians and chinese and poor people replaced with elves and orcs to look politically correct. But at its core it's still White Man's Manifest Destiny (or, if you live in an alternate universe where [insert race] people colonized the world, [insert race]'s Manifest Destiny).</blockquote>

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