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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8551917"><p>I think in general there has been a narrowing across the board of how games ought to be run (at least in online discussions, where gray and nuance evaporate pretty quickly). Ideally if people want to run a game in a way that doesn't deal with things like racism, sexism, etc they can. But also, if people want to include some kind of historical realism for that stuff, they can as well. I think we have wandered into this territory where we have held up 'authenticity' and 'accuracy' (again I think on both divides of the hobby) and too often attribute the worst possible motives for why a designer or a GM might make a particular creative choice when world building (whether that choice is 'racism doesn't exist in my world' or 'this world contains the ugliness of real history in it'). And there will always be people who bring their own terrible ideas to a setting. That can happen too, and it does, but I think most of the time, what I see, are these two sides screaming past one another (and I think I tend to see that screaming past one another because I am pretty comfortable with both approaches).</p></blockquote><p></p>