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Reply To: D&D officially turning Forgotten Realms sights away from Euro inspired campaigns

January 9, 2019 at 7:25 pm #1326839

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The silent majority might just be all the people reading this thread who have no issues whatsoever with their hobbies and interests becoming more inclusive, and more representative of (and sensitive to) cultural diversity.

A lot of them probably share my frustration every time a space they go to online to hang out and talk about games, and get away from all this crap is filled up with raging ideologues, acting as though the sky is falling because Thor is a girl, or games workshop didn’t make sisters of battle sexy enough, creating straw-man positions to argue against, whilst claiming they represent the views of everyone who doesn’t join in, and dismissing anyone who doesn’t share their view off-hand with ad-hominem and pejoratives as “SJW”, “Snowflakes”.

These people rail against a perceived culture of outrage, but in reality, most of the outrage I see comes from them.

This thread is supposedly about D&Ds Forgotten Realms releasing material which focuses on regions and cultures beyond Faerun, so why are there three pages of off-topic opinion about a supposed “culture war”, identity politics, “outrage”, and “SJWs”? Can’t you please just keep that crap out of this community, and recognise that you aren’t responsible for policing this hobby, and speaking for it’s participants?

At the very least, I felt the need to say this so that you can’t claim to be speaking for me.