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[MUD-Dev] Re: Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths
From: James Wilson <jwilson#rochester,rr.com> on Friday, September 18 at 1998
6:37 PM
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths
>
>On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Adam Wiggins wrote:
>>Anyhow, I wanted to point out that a similar (although not identical) tack
>>was taken on some of the older whitie vs. darkie muds. The one I had the
>
>excuse me? "whitie" and "darkie"?!?
>
>the connection between RL racism and the traditional fantasy conceit of
>'monstrous' races has never been expressed more clearly.
>
>James, who feels unclean
Not an advocate of any racism, however, do you mean to say that the
black and white chess pieces (as they are often represented) are also
racist? Likewise, the concept of good == light, and dark == evil is
also a racist term? I have never thought of it that way, then again,
perhaps I am just (phonetical) ni-eve (grin).
-Q-
(nope, I can't spell.)
- Thread context:
- [MUD-Dev] Project: ROADS database of MUD-related papers?,
J C Lawrence claw#under,engr.sgi.com, Sat 19 Sep 1998, 00:23 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Economics: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Fri 18 Sep 1998, 23:31 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Fri 18 Sep 1998, 21:10 GMT
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