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D&D Promotes Race Essentialism?
Thor's Nads:
Clayton Whittle (He/Him) Learning Designer, Game Designer, and Design Researcher, Phd candidate at Penn State University, claims “Racial essentialism is, at its core, the idea that racial identity determines the path we take in life,”.
“In the most egregious of real world examples, we can point to the absolutely disgusting practices of scientific racism, the pseudoscientific pursuit of empirical evidence that one ethnicity can be biologically inferior to another,” he continued.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/03/25/north-american-simulation-and-gaming-association-author-claims-dungeons-dragons-promotes-race-essentialism-because-humans-cannot-realistically-imagine-a-completely-disconnected-reality/
Original paper:
https://archive.ph/2PSiD
Wrath of God:
Most definitely +2 or -2 to attribute is enough to determine fate and path of all race.
I mean obviously dwarven bard is impossible, as they have -2 Cha, simmilarily orc wizard with Int penalty - c'est impossible.
BoxCrayonTales:
Another article questions this narrative: https://areomagazine.com/2022/02/04/evil-orcs-accusations-of-racism-in-dungeons-and-dragons/
It seems humans really can imagine a completely disconnected reality, even if we don't want to.
tenbones:
Let's hope this guy never reads any fairy tales.
Of course he can then write more "studies" that claim things like "aging non-males have significant chances to abusing children, including cannibalism, child trafficking, child-slavery, and abuse by making them live in shoes."
GeekyBugle:
--- Quote from: thomden on April 03, 2022, 01:18:47 AM ---Clayton Whittle (He/Him) Learning Designer, Game Designer, and Design Researcher, Phd candidate at Penn State University, claims “Racial essentialism is, at its core, the idea that racial identity determines the path we take in life,”.
“In the most egregious of real world examples, we can point to the absolutely disgusting practices of scientific racism, the pseudoscientific pursuit of empirical evidence that one ethnicity can be biologically inferior to another,” he continued.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/03/25/north-american-simulation-and-gaming-association-author-claims-dungeons-dragons-promotes-race-essentialism-because-humans-cannot-realistically-imagine-a-completely-disconnected-reality/
Original paper:
https://archive.ph/2PSiD
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Pronouns in Bio, opinions discarded.
In regards to the bolded text, so Critical Race "Theory"!?
I have years screaming how "White Privilege" is nothing but racism, it assumes we non-whites can't compete with whitey.
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