Stumbled onto The Yellow King RPG and saw that Pelgrane needed more list citations.
The first book in the collection, Paris, has:
Some more from Pelgrane.
TimeWatch isn’t a simulation; racism and sexism may be rampant throughout history, but they’re no fun whatsoever in a roleplaying game unless that’s a historical issue you’re specifically looking to address.
Playing devil's advocate here, I'm a little mixed on this. It's like how the Society for Creative Anachronism doesn't try to replicate ALL the aspects of medieval life. I don't think it's entirely necessary to replicate the worst parts of an era in a game that's supposed to be fun (remember, we're doing this for FUN, right?).
Further research is needed, I think.
Point 1: massive volumes of injustices claimed by sjw writers, yet very little if any evidence is given
Point 2: proving individual cases of abuse by todays standards and not by standards and morals prevalent at the time of their occurrence
Point 3: assuming points 1 and 2 are resolved, at which point is an issue deemed a societal/"systemic"/*insert big adjective* one?
Making sweeping moral judgements about the past using today's standards assumes that these things existed in the volumes claimed by sjw's without substantial empirical evidence (point 1, and references of sjw academia where they decide that something is problematic a priori then cherry pick the data, doesn't count). Also even if presented, this evidence would only indicate that an individual or a collection of individuals has received verbal or physical abuse and judged by the standards applied by the one examining the case in the current period and thus unable to have proper context of the event, let alone figure out the true motivations of the abuser (point 2, how to we know the abuse was motivated by what sjw's claim it was).
Taking the example of alleged sexism in the 1920's, have some women experienced what a section of today's women would consider sexism? Lets assume yes, and that we have obtained actual evidence of it (which is more that most sjw's give us already). Then at what point are we today or in any other time period for that matter can say with any degree of certainty that sexism was rampant in the 1920's or in any other time period? How could it be measured to a degree of being rampant and by what metric? (point 3) Also would every person who did not experience sexism in the 1920's counter every person who did experience it? The mechanics are so obscure that I have to resort to filing it under the "sjw hyperbole" category.
So to say "hey guys you don't haaaave to play 1920's like the sexist, racist shit-show that it was" for me is like saying "hey, you don't haaave to think of horrible pink elephants" but it already establishes that pink elephants exists and that they are horrible and I'm not letting them move the ball down the field like that.