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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8024814" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>I have exhibited little active "resistance" to changes in any meaningful way, except in engaging in these conversations and advocating for finding a way to preserve D&D tradition within the context of whatever changes occur. And I started this thread not out of resistance, but trying to be <em>inclusive </em>of people with different perspectives.</p><p></p><p>And just to be clear: I have no issue with inclusivity of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or any kind of diversity - including ideological and philosophical. My experience is that many who focus on the first three forms (et al) of diversity I mentioned often do so at the expense of the latter two. I am interested in both groupings, and will advocate for the latter two (ideological and philosophical, or together, "perspectival") when I feel that it is being glossed over or ignored.</p><p></p><p>based upon your post here, I am not sure whether you have read any of my previous posts in this thread, but If you look over some of my suggestions, nowhere is there any kind of censorship or limiting of artistic freedom. I have said, again and again, that I think the best way forward is a "big tent" approach: don't take away old, traditional ideas, just add and expand them. Take, for instance, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/two-underlying-truths-d-d-heritage-and-inclusivity.672816/post-8023197" target="_blank">this post</a> from a couple days ago in this thread, where I suggested an approach to orcs that I think is a best-of-both worlds. I'm not sure how that repressents any kind of resistance or censoring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 8024814, member: 59082"] I have exhibited little active "resistance" to changes in any meaningful way, except in engaging in these conversations and advocating for finding a way to preserve D&D tradition within the context of whatever changes occur. And I started this thread not out of resistance, but trying to be [I]inclusive [/I]of people with different perspectives. And just to be clear: I have no issue with inclusivity of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or any kind of diversity - including ideological and philosophical. My experience is that many who focus on the first three forms (et al) of diversity I mentioned often do so at the expense of the latter two. I am interested in both groupings, and will advocate for the latter two (ideological and philosophical, or together, "perspectival") when I feel that it is being glossed over or ignored. based upon your post here, I am not sure whether you have read any of my previous posts in this thread, but If you look over some of my suggestions, nowhere is there any kind of censorship or limiting of artistic freedom. I have said, again and again, that I think the best way forward is a "big tent" approach: don't take away old, traditional ideas, just add and expand them. Take, for instance, [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/two-underlying-truths-d-d-heritage-and-inclusivity.672816/post-8023197']this post[/URL] from a couple days ago in this thread, where I suggested an approach to orcs that I think is a best-of-both worlds. I'm not sure how that repressents any kind of resistance or censoring. [/QUOTE]
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