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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8944678" data-attributes="member: 6778210">This was produced in 1988. As old as it is, I do not think it was particularly appropriate when it was produced.This feels like a slippery slope argument and really, really ignores the actual context of the book in question. Sure, I suppose you can find fault with any species portrayed, but some are easier to see than others.Huckleberry Finn's show of racism is a symptom of the world itself and reflective of its time. Orcs of Thar is frankly an insultingly racist pastiche of several cultures. People need to stop bringing very standard defenses given the actual work in question is just not like any of them. I'd get this defense of the Drow, not of what are very bad and offensive racial stereotypes being played for jokes.Honestly, if we have this conversation, we should really address what [USER=6688049]@Dungeonosophy[/USER] wrote as a response:Like, they don't even talk about removing it at all. Really they want this stuff to be way, way more focused on being used for education than anything else. They also don't call for any sort of reediting, but actually a revisiting of the setting to do an in-fiction look at these cultures and have an in-world explanation of why these racist ideas were put forward.Like, to people have any actual specific objections to anything here?</blockquote>