For those of you who are unfamiliar with this vile-corner of the internet, it is the world’s largest discussion forum for white-supremacists. While doing research for this talk, I came across the Stormfront web-site. It’s “just a game” you say? Check out this quote: If filmed, your average D&D campaign would look something like Birth of a Nation set in Greyhawk. You don’t talk to it, you don’t ask what it’s doing there – you kill it, since it’s life is worth less than the treasure it carries and the experience points you’ll get from the kill. Any adventurer knows that if you see an orc, you kill it. To quote Steve Sumner’s essay again, “Unless played very carefully, Dungeons & Dragons could easily become a proxy race war, with your group filling the shoes of the noble white power crusaders seeking to extinguish any orc war bands or goblin villages they happened across.” I would argue with/ Sumner’s use of the phrase “could become,” and say that unless played very carefully, D&D usually becomes a proxy race war. Well, here’s a barnburner of an essay and Powerpoint!
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