Call-out post for white people: sometimes, People of Color use the internet! Sometimes they run across what you're posting on the internet! So if you're making a diversity/inclusivity/anti-racism thing in a publically accessible (and sometimes even in a locked) area and you assume that your audience is 100% white... you are, in fact, being racist!
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palominocorn: A rearing palomino unicorn with a rainbow mane and tail, standing in front of a genderqueer symbol. (Default)
( Jun. 19th, 2020 04:42 pm)
"I don't want to get rid of the racism in D&D!"

Okay, good for you? But personally I would prefer to play a game where ~half-breeds~ like me and my family are heartily welcomed into both(/all) the communities they come from, and not treated as dirty degenerates in one and potential infiltrators in the other.
"Unpopular opinion: [racism racism racism]!"

Yeah, that's about as unpopular as "eating rat poison is bad for your health", congratulations on your totally mainstream opinion, here's your complementary dumpster, please yeet yourself into it.
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Half-[species] character in roleplaying games characteristics, pick two:
-you are the product of rape (the "better" race being the victim/birth parent)
-you were discriminated against by your society and possibly your parent(s) through no fault of your own
-you hate half of your ancestry and long to not be mixed
Prediction: the "interracial ships are bad and racist" people will soon, if they haven't already (they probably already have) expand that to "you can't have mixed characters because that means there was a dirty mixed marriage somewhere in the past even if you don't show it".

I 150% expect someone to call my dirty quarter-blood (mostly white, to make things worse, so racist /s) ass inherently disgusting soon.
Welcome to Video RPG 72! Please create a character!

I see you have picked "woman" as your gender! Your hairstyle options are: 53 almost identical straight long hairs, one curly hair that looks more like yarn than hair, one set of locs that aren't animated, a generically "Native" headdress, or a turban!

Great! Now pick an outfit: sexy harem girl, sexy geisha, sexy savage princess, sexy hula dancer, sexy maid, or sexy bunny!

Perfect! Last step: would you like your eyeshadow and lipstick to be bright red, bright blue, or sparkling black?
palominocorn: A rearing palomino unicorn with a rainbow mane and tail, standing in front of a genderqueer symbol. (Default)
( Apr. 23rd, 2020 07:45 pm)
I was well aware of USians' tendency to say "Asia" while meaning "Korea, Japan, China, and maaaaaybe Mongolia (but probably not)", but I admit that seeing someone type out "Asia and Southeast Asia" without the slightest hint of self-awareness is a new one.
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palominocorn: A rearing palomino unicorn with a rainbow mane and tail, standing in front of a genderqueer symbol. (Default)
( Apr. 16th, 2020 05:00 pm)
Have you ever noticed that white Western people treat Russia as if it's culturally either entirely European or entirely Asian, depending on what kind of racist point they want to make?
I have no idea why so many people believe that mixed race = Black and white, but boy am I sick of it.
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White female character: [commits mass murder for funsies, manipulates everyone to get what she wants, is rude to little kids for no reason at all]

Small but mighty vocal part of the fandom: "She's just misunderstood and lonely!"

Mixed Black/Latina female character: "Ugh, I hate her so much! I can't believe we trusted her and she tried to kill us!"

Same fans: "Wow. :/ So jealous and judgy! She needs to let go of her irrational hate!"
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What was said: "We believe that cultural competency among diagnosing physicians is poor."

What was probably meant: "Hey @ doctors, you're racist."
Every time I wonder "what the fuck were the programmers thinking when they implemented THIS" I remind myself that they're probably a bunch of slightly-less-virulently-racist versions of my father and it all makes a ton of sense.
I'd never even heard the expression "let's circle the wagons" until someone pointed out that it was racist.

Actually, I still haven't heard it outside the context of "don't say this, it's racist" for some reason.
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I have a hard time talking about how my ethnicity (75% Eastern European, 25% some kind of brown that I can't place on a map because my family is full of secrets and lies, for those who aren't aware), affects my life, because of the internal "it's not like you face real problems, no one's harassing you on the street for your skin color" pressure.

And occasionally that pressure is put on me externally by people who want to beat me at an Oppression Olympics game I didn't consent to compete in.
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