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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8283999" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>You can unintentionally and unknowingly harm yourself. You can harm your ability to be objective about those topics if you're having fun because of the offensive content you're using (not in spite of, that's a different matter, <em>but because of it</em>). Consuming and participating in offensive content can desensitize you to it, which can (and does) end up harming people. If your fun is based off of someone else's harm, that is objectively badwrongfun, even if you didn't intend it, and even if you didn't know you were doing it. See <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-to-tell-if-your-fun-is-wrong.679259/" target="_blank">my linked thread</a> for more specific examples (most specifically the racial stereotypes and derogatory terms examples, and the sexism example). </p><p></p><p>It applies to D&D, it applies to blackface, and it applies to other examples. </p><p></p><p>Also, something doesn't have to offend someone in order to be <em>offensive</em>. A group of racist white people won't be offended by the use of the n-word or blackface, but that doesn't mean that the use of it isn't offensive and isn't harmful. It's the perpetuation of it that is harmful, not the presence of someone who is being offended by it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8283999, member: 7023887"] You can unintentionally and unknowingly harm yourself. You can harm your ability to be objective about those topics if you're having fun because of the offensive content you're using (not in spite of, that's a different matter, [I]but because of it[/I]). Consuming and participating in offensive content can desensitize you to it, which can (and does) end up harming people. If your fun is based off of someone else's harm, that is objectively badwrongfun, even if you didn't intend it, and even if you didn't know you were doing it. See [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-to-tell-if-your-fun-is-wrong.679259/']my linked thread[/URL] for more specific examples (most specifically the racial stereotypes and derogatory terms examples, and the sexism example). It applies to D&D, it applies to blackface, and it applies to other examples. Also, something doesn't have to offend someone in order to be [I]offensive[/I]. A group of racist white people won't be offended by the use of the n-word or blackface, but that doesn't mean that the use of it isn't offensive and isn't harmful. It's the perpetuation of it that is harmful, not the presence of someone who is being offended by it. [/QUOTE]
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