Unpopular #RPG opinion: "a product of its time" is a bullshit excuse, and dissecting the racism, sexism, homophobia and colonial mindsets of a text isn't "attention seeking," it's trying to weed out elements of our industry that never should have been there from jump.
first of all, D&D is a whopping 45 years old, shit wasn't written in ye olden days of yore. there was no excuse for bullshit colonizer mentalities in 1974 and there's none now.
y'all thinskins will spend hours and hours on deep dives of lore and arcana for fictional worlds and never spare a SECOND on examining the intensely problematic elements written into them, because they don't affect you.
and then you turn around and tell the people that ARE affected to get over it? get over deez nuts.
if taking the racism, sexism, homophobia and colonial aspects out of your fav game ruins it for you, you were never in it for the game in the first place, you were in it for the racism, sexism, homophobia and colonization.
Because this tweet is blowing up, if y'all DO want hours-long deep dives that takes into account colonialism: @LulaVampiro: jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2019/1/13…
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