Your screenshot left out an essential post in the conversation. You've eliminated the context. That's the problem you're concerned about. Perhaps you don't want to contribute to it? CL didn't change the words. CL used the same words that were in the original post, that you didn't include in your screenshot. You're reacting to MS's response and the comments that followed without taking that original post into account. You're taking it out of context.
OK, then I'm wrong, and I apologize to @Crimson Longinus for my misunderstanding.
And also discussions within the hobby have been motivated by some very concrete issues major companies have in hiring, paying, and listening to their employees.
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Also called: Fallacy of relative privation (its proper name). The "Children Are Starving In Africa!" Argument. Arguing that expressing concern about a (relatively) small problem means that the person doesn't care about any larger problems. The …tvtropes.org
None of us have the power to "fix racism". If we did, we would. We don't. Just because there are larger problems (systematic racism in the USA), that doesn't mean that things you percieve to be lesser problems aren't actually problems or aren't worth addressing.
Just because there are starving children in Africa, that doesn't mean that someone else that isn't starving breaking a bone isn't a problem.
The situation you linked to there specifically is why the recent comments about how they (Wizards) paraphrased 'we have wanted to make these changes for some time' fall flat to me, to say the least.
On the insincerity of corporate DEI, I agree.
Yes but it’s a story, not an advocation to go out and kill Native Americans or discriminate against them. The same story is also the story for fae in Ireland for example, having a different slant or other stories of human encroachment into territories which are stories about civilization’s advance. You can find the story in every culture, not just in Europeans vs Native Americans but even in tribal conflicts and the conflict over resources. So it’s a Western. Cool. The intent of the story is not prejudiced. He’s not targeting Cherokee peoples. It’s not like it’s Boot Hill.I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. If you look at Gyagaxian D&D modules like Keep On The Borderlands they are very much a fantasy Western. In most of the classic variations the white settlers move in pushing the native inhabitants out and wiping them out. And then when the Native Americans strike back the hero "protects" the settlers from the people they are driving out. There are plenty of non-racist Westerns out there, but there's deep seated racism in the genre.
E Gary Gygax posting on Dragonsfoot in 2005:Paladins are not stupid, and in general there is no rule of Lawful Good against killing enemies. The old addage about nits making lice applies. Also, as I have often noted, a paladin can freely dispatch prisoners of Evil alignment that have surrrendered and renounced that alignment in favor of Lawful Good. They are then sent on to their reward before thay can backslide
The adage about "nits make lice" was probably most famously uttered by Col. John Chivington of the Sand Creek Massacre when he said "Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! ... I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians. ... Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice." Although it dates at least to the late 17th Century to justify ethnic war crimes in Ireland which is hardly an improvement.
I was thinking Monte Python.I agree, we are absolutely in a Seinfeld sketch, but isnt the question of overlooking literally the point of the thread?
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