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D&D, racism 

@lizardsquid i'm so glad you're doing this

a lot of stuff about monsters in mythos are about putting a name and a story into fears about the world

for a lot of creatures, especially humanoids, unfortunately that's manifested in "these creatures are a stand-in for a particular people we don't like"

drow are like the most emblematic of this - an organized race of underground matriarchs who worship spiders sounds very much like the background of some african mythos i've read

D&D, racism 

is there a way to reclaim drow from being purely a racist caricature?

i don't really think so personally

orcs have been kinda recovered a little bit but LOTR orcs were definitely racist stereotypes

the thing about drow is they can also be said to be effectively dwarves of norse mythos - the svartalfar, which do match their descriptions in many ways - but i haven't studied it enough to know if that mythic creature was *also* borne of racial stereotypes

@awilfox this is nerdy as fuck and i'm hella impressed

i prolly would never have bothered with assembly stuff

@Felthry @typhlosion welcome to Gender Queen and/or King how may i take your order

@typhlosion *doorbell rings* oh one sec I need to put these in the pantr- *drops bag, genders roll out everywhere as the door opens*

uh- it's - uhhhhhhhhh

some self-thinking about my extremely heavy world shit post, talking about nazis 

@wolfteeth nope! Maybe I'll have to check it out

extremely heavy world shit 

@starkatt i wholeheartedly agree

some self-thinking about my extremely heavy world shit post, talking about nazis 

why am i reading this while on vacation?

well, i care a lot about figuring out how to take apart nazis and i think understanding how they justify themselves is an important step to deconstructing that if you deal with them

punching nazis is great but that alone isn't enough to de-radicalize every one of them

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extremely heavy world shit: read extra CW inside 

CW: article on studying the rwandan genocide - some speculation on current US politics & events and gamergate
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turns out a lot of people in the rwandan genocide tried to appeal to being "good people" and victimization - "were targeted for being Hutus"

we've seen this behavior thoroughly documented in the alt right since a certain game dev was revenge targeted and it continues today

news.osu.edu/news/2017/10/05/g

@Felthry @Efi if you click on the timestamp on efi's post you can go to the public url on her instance that displays the full thread

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