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Author Topic: Sandy Petersen criticizes Atlantic article on colonialism in board games, etc.  (Read 4805 times)

Shasarak

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Hilariously most whites were bad at slavery and relied on natives wanting to get rid of people for their supply. If Africa and such werent so good at slavery the whole problem would have likely gone differently. But nope. Its all the white mans fault.

Does second sourcing the hard part of going out to find slaves make you "bad" at slavery?
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People, serious warning here: keep it to the specifics of Sandy Petersen and colonialism in RPGs.

Everyone who has posted off-topic cut it out, or you could face consequences.
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In this climate it seems like it's difficult not to put emotion into our communication. Nothing wrong with passion and feeling in communication. (Facts before feelings) But the problem is that we tend to post when we're angry/frustrated/hostile. I hate social media. While it can have it's benefits it allows anyone to be an expert and their feelings matter. It's a sad state of our society in my opinion. And anyone, not just SP, should have realized that the cancel train was pulling from the station on this.
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For those sick of this sort of thing, what is the appropriate response? If any, should it be against the poster of the original message or the venue?

This list of references to various tweets suggests the intent - showing SP as a transphobic, racist, colonist nazi. The choice of tweets reminds me of a checklist. Some have argued that it isn't an article on ENWORLD, but Morrus knows that its there and has turned off comments on the post. ENWORLD clearly benefits from its spread across the net. Or is just down to the original poster?
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