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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8341087" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think there's a sort of weird speciesism too. I'm not sure where exactly it comes from, but I've seen it a few times. For example, we played a 5e campaign in the faux Egyptian setting that is popular (whatever its called, I forget). There are civilized gnolls, catfolk, and IIRC a few other races. When I suggested it might be interesting to play a 'frog folk' it was immediately determined that, unlike catfolk, they would have to be somehow primitives. All these races could live together in the city, but I guess frogs are 'lower life forms' and 'must be primitive'. I would opine that this seeming default attitude can be easily traced to associations created in the process of erecting the edifice of colonial cultural hegemony and domination we have been discussing. I don't think Grippli particularly represent some specific social group, or that they are a stand-in for any particular race or people real world history. It is just that these ideas of 'primitiveness' and a 'hierarchy of being' have been so strongly ingrained that people cannot even see it in their own basic default assumptions. This is really what the whole point of what 'CRT' is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8341087, member: 82106"] I think there's a sort of weird speciesism too. I'm not sure where exactly it comes from, but I've seen it a few times. For example, we played a 5e campaign in the faux Egyptian setting that is popular (whatever its called, I forget). There are civilized gnolls, catfolk, and IIRC a few other races. When I suggested it might be interesting to play a 'frog folk' it was immediately determined that, unlike catfolk, they would have to be somehow primitives. All these races could live together in the city, but I guess frogs are 'lower life forms' and 'must be primitive'. I would opine that this seeming default attitude can be easily traced to associations created in the process of erecting the edifice of colonial cultural hegemony and domination we have been discussing. I don't think Grippli particularly represent some specific social group, or that they are a stand-in for any particular race or people real world history. It is just that these ideas of 'primitiveness' and a 'hierarchy of being' have been so strongly ingrained that people cannot even see it in their own basic default assumptions. This is really what the whole point of what 'CRT' is. [/QUOTE]

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