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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8816635" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I recently had a &quot;conversation&quot; with someone via reddit who seemed to be of that mindset--if you see something racist in the game, it's because you're the racist. Apparently non-racists are too pure and innocent to be able to recognize racism. According to this person, since they'd never seen anything like the N-word (this is a quote) used to describe a D&amp;D race (in this particular case, orcs), there was no way that any of the D&amp;D races were ever written in a racist way. Basically, they didn't believe that microaggressions were real, that phrasing mattered, and that using real-world racist phrases to describe D&amp;D races was perfectly fine. Fortunately, this is reddit and the guy got downvoted quite a bit.So that's going to be the case here. The post you linked quoted the bit where Meg The Sorceress was called disgusting by GiantLands (I have forgotten who it was who actually wrote that tweet; there's too many jerks in this TSR mess), and the post's writer will simply never accept that what GiantLands did was wrong because they didn't actually say &quot;anything like the N-word.&quot; Unless the tweet had actually said &quot;all trans people deserve to die,&quot; it looks like Gyull would never consider it to be bigoted or wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8816635, member: 6915329"] I recently had a "conversation" with someone via reddit who seemed to be of that mindset--if you see something racist in the game, it's because you're the racist. Apparently non-racists are too pure and innocent to be able to recognize racism. According to this person, since they'd never seen anything like the N-word (this is a quote) used to describe a D&D race (in this particular case, orcs), there was no way that any of the D&D races were ever written in a racist way. Basically, they didn't believe that microaggressions were real, that phrasing mattered, and that using real-world racist phrases to describe D&D races was perfectly fine. Fortunately, this is reddit and the guy got downvoted quite a bit. So that's going to be the case here. The post you linked quoted the bit where Meg The Sorceress was called disgusting by GiantLands (I have forgotten who it was who actually wrote that tweet; there's too many jerks in this TSR mess), and the post's writer will simply never accept that what GiantLands did was wrong because they didn't actually say "anything like the N-word." Unless the tweet had actually said "all trans people deserve to die," it looks like Gyull would never consider it to be bigoted or wrong. [/QUOTE]

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