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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8769708" data-attributes="member: 6704184">What? I said I’ve never heard someone suggest that D&D half elves and half orcs represent anything like the blood quantum ideology or anything associated with it. I mean, yes, frankly. Imagine a game in which different cultures have different stats. Now imagine that a marginalized culture that you are a part of is not given stats in a new version of the game, even though that culture’s history in the game is basically as long as the history of the game. Instead, you’re told by the game that your identity can be reduced to “looks however you want, but uses all the mechanics of one neighboring culture”. Like I genuinely don’t see how any of what I’m saying is even controversial. Yes, effectively. Things that you “reflavor” into the game only exist at your table. They aren’t part of The Game. They therefor aren’t part of the culture of the game. When the game books remove something mechanically, but give you permission you never needed anyway to describe your character as that thing they’ve removed mechanically, they have erased that thing.</blockquote>