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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8508612" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I am not so sure that stereotype has much currency these days. The only time I hear about it is in debates about US slavery (ie what about African or Arab slave traders?) or in serious political discussions about modern slavery (and then it isn’t typically applied to Arabs as a group). And awareness of modern slavery is quite recent. My sense is most Americans know very little about that or about historical slave traders (beyond what happened within the US): they are much more likely to lean on stereotypes of fanaticism, attitudes towards women, and terrorism than slave traders. But in D&D one of the features the alignment system used to always mention with Evil, was slave owning societies were evil. So I think it is more s stand in for them being evil than for them being Arab coded.</p></blockquote><p></p>