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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8699323" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>I'm guessing it is. Johnson shot NuTSR in their collective foot with that work. Even the final, public, printed release (not that it will ever actually be released, of course) underwent serious editing and contains none of the original bigotry or dogwhistles, it's now known to everyone that it did at one point. Since WotC owns the IP, they can<em>not </em>let that level of horror continue. It's one thing when it's just copyright infringement with the occasional phrase that could be bigoted or could be innocent[1]; they can take their time with that. But if they aren't super-hard on something as blatantly bigoted as SF:NG involving their property, then they run a very serious risk of losing their own credibility when they have been seriously pushing themselves as a company dedicated to equality and openness to everyone.</p><p></p><p>You know, it's actually kind of funny, in a way. This whole thing started with LaNasa complaining about about the disclaimer on older TSR books because he believed it meant that WotC was calling "old school" gamers bigoted. It turns out that in his case, he was actually completely correct!</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>[1] On its own, milk smugglers could be a real thing, albeit a dumb one, since of all the things that could be smuggled, dairy is likely to never be high on anyone's list. Nordic aliens <em>are </em>part of actual UFO lore. If Johnson hadn't been so stupid, he could have included them and pulled the wool over a lot of people's eyes. Instead, he either is delusional enough to think he could create stat-capped Black people as a race and people would be cool with it, or he was so blinded with rage against "woke" people that he did it without thinking at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8699323, member: 6915329"] I'm guessing it is. Johnson shot NuTSR in their collective foot with that work. Even the final, public, printed release (not that it will ever actually be released, of course) underwent serious editing and contains none of the original bigotry or dogwhistles, it's now known to everyone that it did at one point. Since WotC owns the IP, they can[I]not [/I]let that level of horror continue. It's one thing when it's just copyright infringement with the occasional phrase that could be bigoted or could be innocent[1]; they can take their time with that. But if they aren't super-hard on something as blatantly bigoted as SF:NG involving their property, then they run a very serious risk of losing their own credibility when they have been seriously pushing themselves as a company dedicated to equality and openness to everyone. You know, it's actually kind of funny, in a way. This whole thing started with LaNasa complaining about about the disclaimer on older TSR books because he believed it meant that WotC was calling "old school" gamers bigoted. It turns out that in his case, he was actually completely correct! -- [1] On its own, milk smugglers could be a real thing, albeit a dumb one, since of all the things that could be smuggled, dairy is likely to never be high on anyone's list. Nordic aliens [I]are [/I]part of actual UFO lore. If Johnson hadn't been so stupid, he could have included them and pulled the wool over a lot of people's eyes. Instead, he either is delusional enough to think he could create stat-capped Black people as a race and people would be cool with it, or he was so blinded with rage against "woke" people that he did it without thinking at all. [/QUOTE]
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