Warduke

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I'm fascinated by varieties of people I come to believe are genuinrly snd deeply stupid misunderstanding what is right, wrong, good, or bad about anything.

I was disgusted by what was being said by the nincompoops on Reddit nine years ago about how thinking of the Middle East or Middle Eastern culture positively was wrong to do, like they were suggesting that showing anything to do with the Middle East in any positive way or fun way was a terrible thing "considering" the supposed reality that they were all worthy of being slaughtered. Like what the hell. The craziest thing about it is they seemed to thjnk THAT was the politically correct view, lol, and in a way they, in their consummate stupidity, were right, the West went from fun with Didney's Aladdin to spending now 30 years spreading blatant racist hatred that has continued the torture and open mass murdering of hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of ordinary human beings for well over just these 3 decades even, traumatizing and changing the trajectory of so many survivors or people trying to navigate the pretty much totally facetious and fabricated hate just to keep the people from turning on the people really causing all the problems and directing them to constantly hate big populations of people in poverty instead of the evil, mismanaging, overlords destroying their lives. So hearing from the dumb as sh*t brainwashed dufuses writing on Reddit nine years ago was, pretty much as always, disappointing. Now, similarly slack jawed mutants are shepherded by people like "Asmongold", who openly promotes all kinds of vile things as though it is just a matter of fact. I had been away from seeing much of this distressing stuff since my phone has been broken, but it brought it all back, how much it is necessary to apparently forever live in hiding from these ugly m*therf*ckers.

Anyway, Orientalist treatment of fantasy material often comes off as irritating and boring to me, and that is all the problem is for me and probably most people. If it had more that looked cool and interesting, giving those signals, and wasn't one dimensionally lame like almost every effort made by people not familar with where to draw the line, since they are creating borders for material and concepts not present and then restricting things severely so that "Middle Eastern" things simply can't have as much as the others, so why would that be attractive? Just slap on a bunch of turbans on everyone and a few skeletons? There is no strict distinction with the "Middle East", so when they try to make things distinct, they come up with very little overall in the "Specific" settings, so when they go Aztec, Chinese, Japanese, even Norse, it can feel especially limited and boring even if they put in everything they can, while the default setting of anything and everything for anyone and not specific or limited is always going to be the most attractive by giving and having the most potential. Some of the genius people have been suggesting instead that nothing from any part of the world should be brought up except by people with arbitrary quantum, blood ties to those historic regions and ethnicities, even if they were raised like anyone else, somehow their blood shall make whatrver they come up with acceptable. Are people listening to themselves? They are so hysterically nonsensical, I could not even imagine approaching people who are putting their lack of critical thinking and reasoning skills on full display without shame, they seem to think they are smart, total Dunning-Kruger going on.

https://iamhamzasidky.medium.com/%EF%B8 ... 8e868f0bff

https://sites.psu.edu/aspsy/2023/10/26/ ... in-racism/

https://www.wikihow.life/Avoid-Influenc ... ist-People

https://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2020/0 ... etop-rpgs/

https://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2020/0 ... l-culture/

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Drow
Drow are a creation wholly of Gary Gygax, and oh boy are they famously racist! Drow have been traditionally depicted as evil elves who despite everything good and wonderful about their surface kin. And oh yeah, before Paizo came along their skin was black. They were also notorious torturers and slavers.

Not only are they basically identical to elves, who are presented as “always good,” in every way (except they’re black), but they’re also notoriously evil and cruel, favoring things like torture, slavery, murder, and more. Their matriarchal society is also one of constant distrust and backstabbing, where people get on top by being the cleverest or the most powerful. There is a lot wrong with this portrayal, but some of the big ones include the idea that a group of dark-skinned people would naturally gravitate towards evil (compared to their fair-skinned cousins, who are portrayed as usually good), the idea that a matriarchal society would also inherently lean towards evil, and the idea that a predominately black society would exalt in slavery (more on that later).

Gnolls
Gnolls are partially a Gygaxian concept; they’re ravenous hyenafolk who are spawned from fatten hyenas who dined upon the flesh of a demon lord and became mindless servants to that entity. But the notion of hyenas who could assume human shape is a real folklore myth in Africa called boudas (it’s less of a anthromorphic hyena thing and more of a witch who turns into a hyena thing). They’re seen as demon worshipers, usually dressed in ragged skins and armors with very basic weapons, incapable of real society beyond the “pack” which is basically portrayed as a tribe, and of course they like to eat people. Oh, and hyenas are from Africa and gnolls are often coded as African. (I talked a lot more about the problems with gnolls a few weeks ago. Check it out!)
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They want to come along and ruin or eradicate all my favorite groups. The approach is totally wrong, all their "solutions" are incorrect, because it is coming from the same sort of idiots who created the problems in the first place.

I got on this because I was about to buy a very expensive racist book about the Drow who are being wiped out of all these things now.