This entire article is outlandish overreaction.

When people say “liberals are eating their own” I tend to disagree, but man do you give people that believe that statement plenty to eat. This is a freakin’ buffet for them.

So the point of studying history, the thing you do during a degree and what you do after if you stay in higher ed, is the writing on and interpretation of history, there are different schools of thought with how this should be done but that gets into a discussion about
historiography and since you don’t, or anyone…

Aren’t they a bunch of friends who played DnD together anyway? Like... ‘They should hire a PoC’ is literally asking them to have a ‘token black friend’.

You’re one of two people in this entire comment section that is blatantly okay with this horseshit “article”. Maybe step back and realize if you and one or two other people are trying to “call out” an entire comment section, maybe you’re the one with the bad take? This isn’t appropriation, this is major league, cringe…

The argument the author makes is literally that they should replace at least part of the cast with people with a SWANA background in order to do a fantasy culture more justice. What do you mean slippery slope, we have literally reached the point where some people are getting ‘woke’ over a fucking DnD campaign.

I stopped playing because I don’t want weekly events in my shooters.

I used to play Halo 3 to Halo 4 games 2-4 days a week. Now it feels like they want me to play everyday. I’m lazy and got other games/life.

I think the part I’m struggling with is that D&D has, to me, always been about play it how you want. And this article is flipping it into play it how we want. The internet is no longer satisfied with being spectators, they want to be directors as well.

Yeah, the use of the word “objective” is really sloppy here. There really shouldn’t be a question about the ability to understand objective truths, since something objective is not influenced by personal feelings or opinions. I can, for example, understand that China has a population of 1.402 billion people, despite…

You write as if marginalized populations were, as a whole, very angry about what Critical Role is doing here. When the likelihood is that they overwhelmingly do not know about this and, were they to know, would not care. So why am I supposed to agree with people whose eagerness to be offended by this not not actually…

You write, “If someone is truly invested in forward progress, this kind of criticism should be welcomed and encouraged.” But this is just a trap. You’re basically saying that anyone who disagrees with an accusation that they were racially insensitive must be wrong, since by definition a person who is “invested in…

That’s the Kobiyashi Maru of this.  Do it like they did?  Problematic as laid out.  Do it like you said?  Appropriation.  Don’t do it at all?  Erasure.  There is no winning move here.

Yeah but there is no better that they can do. According to the author, the original cast is fundamentally incapable of doing right by any setting that isn’t traditional ‘European’ fantasy.

Then I welcome it, but so much of the frustration from the people on “the other side” is that there doesn’t seem to be a clearly defined line of what they can do. Instead, these articles at best start a good conversation with no “action items, at worse vilify the well-intentioned allies, and at the worst, become an…

You said it yourself - this might be a cynical, bad faith interpretation. That right there is an admission that you know there’s probably a perfectly reasonable counter-argument that you conveniently omitted from your article in an effort to steer the narrative one way: the click generating, socially inflaming way.

This crap makes me wish D&D would go back to being something we all just kinda did in secret with our friends and the greater population shunned it.

Imagine a group of allies and progressives being like “hey we want to explore some other cultures in a fun and not appropriation way so let’s hire some people to guide us on that way and present it to people” and standing on the sidelines and being like NO YOU CAN’T DO THAT!!!!

Maybe they thought that dressing up in traditional attire of cultures that aren’t their own as white people would’ve been 10x worse.

No one is ‘so mad’, it’s just like 20 people on Twitter. I’ve seen just as many people be happy to be represented and feel seen by the campaign.

Listen, if people don’t even understand the difference between someone having an accent because they grew up in New York City (e.g. Awkwafina) vs someone putting on an accent that has nothing to do with their background for commercial gain (e.g. Iggy Azalea) then I doubt they will think for even a moment about where…