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OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« on: December 03, 2022, 07:32:10 PM »
WoTC says they're abolishing "Race" from D&D, exactly what the Wokists demanded. In response, wokists (including Wizard employees) accuse them of being "oppressors".
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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2022, 07:38:06 PM »
I was so outraged by the Biological Essentialism, that I wrote WOTC a strongly worded complaint letter.

As I wanted it there fast, I had my friend from Jamaica run it to the post office. The Samoan mailman said they'd had a lot of similar letters, then he threw the massive sack over his shoulder and was on his way.

I have to wait for a reply, so I'm watching a cat catch a mouse. I don't know why the mouse didn't just fly away.
I'm a middle aged guy with a lot of free time, looking for similar, to form a group for regular gaming. You should be chill, non-woke, and have time on your hands.

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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2022, 09:59:07 PM »
This is beautiful.  Just beautiful.  Bravo!!!

If you'll please excuse me; I am going to shed a tear now, for those poor woke bastards that hate D&D, and never did like it anyway.

All of this SJW rubbish bullshit; only serves to make OD&D, BX, and 1st Edition AD&D look like classic works of art.
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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2022, 10:44:20 PM »
It's glorious to watch them eat their own.
This is like watching the communists fight the fascists all over again.

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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2022, 12:12:59 AM »
It seems like an odd complaint for someone who maintains their biological characteristics make them more suited than others for their job.

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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2022, 12:18:49 AM »
It seems like an odd complaint for someone who maintains their biological characteristics make them more suited than others for their job.

If you keep noticing things, I'm going to have to get the head-cage full of rats.


Next you'll ask insane, crazy things like why American Indians or Australian Aborigines have a mystical blood claim to ancestral land; but Europeans are just earlier immigrants to Europe, and anyone with a passport is equally at home there.
« Last Edit: December 04, 2022, 12:21:04 AM by Grognard GM »
I'm a middle aged guy with a lot of free time, looking for similar, to form a group for regular gaming. You should be chill, non-woke, and have time on your hands.

See below:

https://www.therpgsite.com/news-and-adverts/looking-to-form-a-group-of-people-with-lots-of-spare-time-for-regular-games/

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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2022, 12:51:18 AM »
Next you'll ask insane, crazy things like why American Indians or Australian Aborigines have a mystical blood claim to ancestral land; but Europeans are just earlier immigrants to Europe, and anyone with a passport is equally at home there.

Not if us dumb Polaks have anything to say about it!

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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2022, 05:46:00 AM »
It seems like an odd complaint for someone who maintains their biological characteristics make them more suited than others for their job.

What?
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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2022, 12:47:12 PM »
It seems like an odd complaint for someone who maintains their biological characteristics make them more suited than others for their job.

What?

They're talking about how a guy can rail against Bio-Essentialism, while also arguing that his relatives coming from China in the past, magically make him suitable for writing stories set in all of the Orient.
I'm a middle aged guy with a lot of free time, looking for similar, to form a group for regular gaming. You should be chill, non-woke, and have time on your hands.

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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2022, 01:23:56 PM »
Can someone point me where the PHB references real-world races like French, English, Egyptian, Chinese, Aborigine, Bantu, Khoisan, or any other real-world race?

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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2022, 05:00:25 PM »
Next you'll ask insane, crazy things like why American Indians or Australian Aborigines have a mystical blood claim to ancestral land; but Europeans are just earlier immigrants to Europe, and anyone with a passport is equally at home there.

Oh gawds this!!! holy shite I'm sick of hearing they have some mystical claim to the land.....like.....ugh
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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2022, 05:02:01 PM »
They're talking about how a guy can rail against Bio-Essentialism, while also arguing that his relatives coming from China in the past, magically make him suitable for writing stories set in all of the Orient.

Yup, this.... Little Danny Kwan thinks just cause he's descended from Oriental roots that makes him more capable than say an trained historian of European ancestry
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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2022, 06:06:45 PM »
Honestly, after the Cultural Revolution and the historical revisionism of the CCP, I’m more inclined to trust Western historians over Chinese scholars on Chinese history. That Danny fellow is exactly the result to expect from history written from modern “critical” perspectives.
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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2022, 10:52:55 PM »
Can someone point me where the PHB references real-world races like French, English, Egyptian, Chinese, Aborigine, Bantu, Khoisan, or any other real-world race?

Only if you can tell us how the French and English became races. I always thought that they were cultures.
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Re: OneDnD Accused of "Biological Essentialism"
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2022, 11:17:22 PM »
Can someone point me where the PHB references real-world races like French, English, Egyptian, Chinese, Aborigine, Bantu, Khoisan, or any other real-world race?

There's a part toward the back that references gods of real-world cultures -- Norse, Celtic, Egyptian.  Might be others, but I don't have my copy handy.