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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8637129" data-attributes="member: 18">Sure, but seem my point re: Vistani. It already wasn't okay. People knew already that it wasn't okay. WotC decided &quot;eh who cares&quot; to that. The person who wrote the VGTM stuff on Orcs probably didn't realize how racist what he was writing was, probably didn't realize how perfectly it lined up with some horrific portrayals of certain races, but he definitely had to realize he was taking Orcs back to an older place, and unless he was a truly clueless numpty realized that what he was writing at least lined up with some RL racism.No question that has been a problem, agree completely. I'm not saying they had to do a &quot;new edition&quot; on the spot when they realized this stuff wasn't going to fly but I don't think it's any accident Volos is one of the books going OOP, no doubt taking all that text with it forever.Oh definitely not an accident, yeah. They were looking for old-school portrayals, and er... maybe they dug a little too deep and too greedily in their quest for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8637129, member: 18"] Sure, but seem my point re: Vistani. It already wasn't okay. People knew already that it wasn't okay. WotC decided "eh who cares" to that. The person who wrote the VGTM stuff on Orcs probably didn't realize how racist what he was writing was, probably didn't realize how perfectly it lined up with some horrific portrayals of certain races, but he definitely had to realize he was taking Orcs back to an older place, and unless he was a truly clueless numpty realized that what he was writing at least lined up with some RL racism. No question that has been a problem, agree completely. I'm not saying they had to do a "new edition" on the spot when they realized this stuff wasn't going to fly but I don't think it's any accident Volos is one of the books going OOP, no doubt taking all that text with it forever. Oh definitely not an accident, yeah. They were looking for old-school portrayals, and er... maybe they dug a little too deep and too greedily in their quest for them. [/QUOTE]

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