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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8705033" data-attributes="member: 18">I really don't think that was actually true.I think it was an impression you got because you only dealt with real people back then, not &quot;internet people&quot;. But you could already see the same issues you're describing in the letters pages in Dragon magazine, for example. One of my first experiences of AD&amp;D was someone insisting I'd bought the &quot;wrong&quot; edition (2E) and shouting at me about it.The bigotry re: people are different is a bit novel, I will admit. It's not entirely new - if you look again at a lot of early '90s and before stuff there's often some outright misogyny, racial stereotyping (or even outright racism on occasions), thinking gay or trans people are inherently funny/laughable as a concept (not always like, Cyberpunk 2020 never did, for example). What's a problem now is that we have this &quot;culture war&quot; rhetoric which is basically being pushed for political reasons to try and stir up division and hate, which brings a lot of people out of the woodwork.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8705033, member: 18"] I really don't think that was actually true. I think it was an impression you got because you only dealt with real people back then, not "internet people". But you could already see the same issues you're describing in the letters pages in [I]Dragon[/I] magazine, for example. One of my first experiences of AD&D was someone insisting I'd bought the "wrong" edition (2E) and shouting at me about it. The bigotry re: people are different is a bit novel, I will admit. It's not entirely new - if you look again at a lot of early '90s and before stuff there's often some outright misogyny, racial stereotyping (or even outright racism on occasions), thinking gay or trans people are inherently funny/laughable as a concept (not always like, Cyberpunk 2020 never did, for example). What's a problem now is that we have this "culture war" rhetoric which is basically being pushed for political reasons to try and stir up division and hate, which brings a lot of people out of the woodwork. [/QUOTE]

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