>Good example of right wing politics And its also pretty good. just like Tolkien :^)
Now we're agreeing on something. Yes, Tolkein was a Tory, a monarchist and a British Catholic. He was a conservative in the Burkean sense of wanting to preserve the best of the past while moving into the future. It's one of history's riddles that his books were embraced by hippies. Those books expressed a coherent political worldview.
Originally Posted by Sordak
But that entire paragraph couldnt have been loaded any more. What are you getting at here?
I'm making the same few points again and again using different examples.
A) What we see, what care about it is determined by a number of factors including our politics. For you it seems very important for games to include NPCs that have phenotypical features that could have plausibly emerged from different geographic environments and that these phenotypically derived features mirror the divisions in our own world. This is important enough to you that if a sizeable portion of them don't fit that environment it breaks immersion. For me it doesn't break immersion. Sure there may be a backstory here but I'm much less interested in that story than, say, how the hills became populated with dragons. Really and truly.
B) Politics are inevitable. A decision to make one country populated only by people with a certain skin color is also a political decision. This is the point of the graphic posted earlier.
Sure, we can talk about degrees. But less =/ better. Tolkein was loaded with politics and was all the better for it.
On caucasian / white we'll also lump that under disagreement. Johann Blumenbach went a mountain town, decided that the women were hot and declared that the world's best race came from the world's hottest women. If Blumenbach were alive today he'd be curating lists of the 100 hottest babes. I see the word "caucasian" and I laugh a little.
