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racism in game design 

Pros of khajiit: Theyre pretty animal people

Cons: Their design stuff feels real racist

racism in game design 

@Daylight skyrim/the elder scroll's entire understanding of species-as-race and how all that interacts is sooo off tbh >.>

racism in game design 

@pan yeah, i mean yeah, its fine i guess when they arent based on real world marginalized people, but like, they are lol

racism in game design 

@Daylight idk if that's even always fine tho because it's totally possible to still model the dynamics of oppression in a way that doesn't reflect how things work

like for a start, writers in fantasy stuff conflate nationality and ethnicity and species/"race" a lot, which makes it seem like those are all the same thing to people who haven't spent time learning about it

racism in game design 

@Daylight (ah not to discourse at u, just wanted to say)

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