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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9786061" data-attributes="member: 6802378">It is OK to add characters from different origins but the mistake is when to promote a group other is desplaced or becomes the new outcast. Or at least we should avoid the old customers may feel like the new "little ugly duckling" or like the older brother who isn't any more the superstar of the home when the new baby has just born. I don't like the tielflings being "promoted" while the noble-hearted aasimars have been relatively isolated or forgotten. They were showed like "I am a bad boy and I don't regret" when I would rather somebody more like Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler(X-Men) "the face of a demon but the heart of an angel". Miss Marvel/Kamala Khan was created to be a "positive token". Nobody can guess when I remember she is from Pakistan and (disclaimer, possible controversial comment)[ISPOILER]the great rage I feel after reading in the web of Fides agency the horrible news about the native Christians who live in Pakistan. Does familiar the name Asia Bibi? you don't know what she suffered and at least she can tell it but others weren't so lucky.[/ISPOILER] Sorry, I feel unconfortable because when somebody tries to clean the image of a group their possible dirty secrets are hidden. It sounds like two tiers. I don't blame Disney too much if they didn't know what happens in Pakistan but I know it and I don't like it. The cartoon movie "Aztec Batman" is one of the last examples of entertaiment industry used for propaganda or to promote ideological prejudices. When I say speculative fiction should be "ideologically neutral" I mean we don't want to be used for propaganda like this. [Disclaimer: possible controversy about History]What do you know about the flower wars? Did you know the reason because Tlaxcaltecs and other native people allied with Spaniards against the Mexica empire? or after the civil Inca war Altahualpa used his brother Huascar's skull like a cup to drink? [ISPOILER]Has anybody told you about the genocide in California, or in Tasmania, the path of tears in the Mississipi or Amritsar massacre (India 1919), or the lost lifes by hunger in India caused by Wiston Churhill, or the crimes in Philipinas by the general Jacob H. Smith?[/ISPOILER] This is not "you are worse" but "don't dare to open your mouth to say I should feel guilty and ashamed when your own past isn't cleaner". If you only talk about sins by ones but nothing about others then it is two tier. If you want to talk about History take care because maybe the other knows more than you. <h3></h3>You could say "Aztec Batman: clash of empires" is only a movie, fiction, but we know today Emilio Salgari's "Captain Tempesta" (and its sequel "the Lion of Damscu") can't be adapted to a cinematographic production (or videogame) because the evil guys wear turbant. is it or isn't it two tier or double standars? In my land we say "to use double stick to measure".  Emilio Salgari's work is public domain. Why not a videogame of "Captain Tempesta" where one of the first action girls faced evil invaders with turbants? Would be it too offensive? And who is who can dictate when anything is too offensive or not too much? Where is the coherence?</blockquote>

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