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<blockquote data-quote="Libertad" data-source="post: 9847031" data-attributes="member: 6750502">I disagree, in that the term's &quot;correctness&quot; isn't objective if the people it's being used to describe wholesale reject it. In a discussion regarding racist portrayals and terms, I believe that it's important to highlight the viewpoints of those who will be most affected. In this case, the use of &quot;pygmy&quot; to describe fantasy races.Central African Foragers is definitely wordier, but if anything this ties into how the all-encompassing umbrella of how pygmy's application for &quot;short dark-skinned hunter-gatherer cannibals&quot; or outright monsters (vegepygmy's still used for the monster of the same name by WotC in publications) is a trope that we should do away with, which is often what I see pygmy used for in this context. Which I can understand is what you're highlighting. So apologies if it seems like I'm quibbling; I just wanted to highlight to other readers that the term's &quot;correctness&quot; isn't an accepted one among the people it's used to describe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Libertad, post: 9847031, member: 6750502"] I disagree, in that the term's "correctness" isn't objective if the people it's being used to describe wholesale reject it. In a discussion regarding racist portrayals and terms, I believe that it's important to highlight the viewpoints of those who will be most affected. In this case, the use of "pygmy" to describe fantasy races. Central African Foragers is definitely wordier, but if anything this ties into how the all-encompassing umbrella of how pygmy's application for "short dark-skinned hunter-gatherer cannibals" or outright monsters (vegepygmy's still used for the monster of the same name by WotC in publications) is a trope that we should do away with, which is often what I see pygmy used for in this context. Which I can understand is what you're highlighting. So apologies if it seems like I'm quibbling; I just wanted to highlight to other readers that the term's "correctness" isn't an accepted one among the people it's used to describe. [/QUOTE]

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