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MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We can do better. TrueSTL had a lot of “joking” real racism IMO.

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember there being jokes that seemed like they were drawing parallels between TES racism and IRL racism (like how the Dunmer like calling non-dunmer “N’wah”, which sounds suspiciously like “n-word” if you slur the words as you say them) or making fun of racism in the series. I don’t remember TrueSTL using jokes to actually make fun of IRL minorities though.

    I could be wrong, it’s been a while, but I don’t remember seeing anything that came off as being intentionally malicious. I will also concede, however, that there were definitely things that might come off that way to a passerby with no TES lore knowledge.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s true, I just interpret “huh yuk I can mean the N word with this one weird trick” as racism. When the orcs are loud and boorish, that’s fine. When they love fried chicken and watermelon, it’s clearly a proxy.

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      • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, yanno I think that’s a fair interpretation. I don’t fully agree with it, but I can see your logic. I will say that, now that you mention the orc thing, I think I seeing something like that once and I think I remember the OP getting a warning for it being too real. It seemed like most of the users knew where the line was and tried to avoid stepping over it, but again, it’s been a while since I last bothered to look at Reddit (at least a year I think, maybe two), so I could be misremembering or things could have changed, etc.

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