As someone who's not straight, I feel you. The amount of oversight makes me very reluctant to talk on most of the forums (especially Tangency). There are many times where the racism policy they enforce comes off as even more racist than the original content.
BLM and violence against Asians, you say?
Both us bigots and you queers both are unwelcome at RPG.net.
A crusader always needs a crusade. RPGNet has long ago purged anyone who might legitimately be considered "problematic" by anyone who isn't completely deranged, but what motivates people like Zeea isn't having a site free from any contact with evil bigots, it's the paroxysm of joy they get from bringing the banhammer down. Thus the "rules" must become increasingly arcane and capriciously enforced. Without bigots to ban, Zeea would have no reason to exist.
“This is playing the old card where someone pretends that none of the fantasy races were deliberately designed to embody real-life racial stereotypes, even though Gygax and several other designers explicitly made those comparisons in public discussions of the game.”
I know that Tolkien stated that he took queues from how Medieval Europeans viewed the Mongolian Hordes when writing the Orcs, but that was much less about their actual culture and any sort of allegory as it was a statement pertaining to the kind of dread such an army induced. Wokists have long relied on that one statement about how Orc brutality was like that of the Khanates and tried to claim that was an explicit statement that all Orcs are caricatures of minorities.
What's funny is that the old take used to be that they were the Germans in WWI. This was also a bad take but it dominated Tolkien pseudohistory discourse up until the 2010s.
Tolkien himself asserted that "We were all Orcs in the Great War." I think it's pretty easy to connect the dots to see that Orcs don't represent any group in particular other than how war turns men into monsters.
Apparently, Mongolians were an oppressed minority in the 13th century.
I mean he was Catholic. Original sin and all that - in his view we all have a little bit of Orc inside us. (except me - because I'm a superior robot)
The people who are busy finding RPG races problematic don't care about THAT quote, because they aren't arguing in good faith. As @The Ugly One said, their main goal is finding things to complain about and change so they can feel virtuous.
That would require actually understanding metaphor. That is a human mode of thought. Subhumans, like Orcs and RPG.net mods, are incapable of such subtle thought.
Kink shaming alert more like it
I mean it's really simple what happened. Social justice types and leftists are more then content with coming in and shitting up the discourse in communities. It doesn't help when you have alot of people within these communities well using their positions as gate keepers to turn a discussion about the finer points of 40k lore into something about social justice in gaming.
In general the left is almost completely incapable of dealing with certain types of predators within their communities, due to the autism and stupidity of their own ideology. The only ones who are immune are those who reject idpol, who are a small minority.
Yeah not to forget there is always those one or two virtue signaling tards who are like. "Yeah you need to listen to that trans person yo. Transphobia isn't cool and trust me do so." In the old days you would catch a ban learn your lesson. Now speaking out and telling the truth gets you banned. Worst of all the conspiracy theory schizo sites seem to be saner compared to normie places overrun with socjus shit.
I mean there is a severe cognitive dissonance with the left they don't wish to see. I mean Kyle Rittenhouse is a good example. Despite mounds of evidence essentially proving the dude defended himself against 3 white dudes. You have a large segment saying he's a white supremacists Because of X. Instead of face the facts many of them have gone into insane conspiracy theory levels to deal with the facts.
Woop woop, low-level trolling alert!