Reading the comments to that blog. You fell into the trap there...

You baited yourself, or got baited, into the 'your the racist here for
playing the race card' argument.

I get baited into that one almost every single time I try to have a
discussion about race with gamers and others from a majority-race
background.

Sooner or later, I end up being painted as the one who is the extremist,
and it happens at around the time I get emotional and say something like
you did: 'deal with it whitey'

- Once that happens, I've lost the debate, but I usually don't see it in
time, and they get more ammunition to use against me.

And in the end... they confirm for me that yes, they are blind to their
own racism, and I confirm for them that yes, 'all those colored folks
really are a bunch of anti-white racists.'
- and we get nowhere.

Very frustrating when I get baited into it, and frustrating to read your
comments section there and see how well that guy baited you into it. At
the end of the day he's crafted a comments debate that he can bring all
his fellow gamers of like mind to himself over to and they'll look at it
and say to themselves "yep, we can dismiss these radicals and their
racism in gaming' notions."

- Your comments section is kind of why I stopped table top gaming. I
couldn't find a way to stop getting baited into conversations like that,
and I started having trouble around my gaming friends with even saying
'Hey, pass the d6 please,' without it devolving into that debate again...
- Or maybe rather, 'pass the d6 please' was about the only conversation
I could have with them. Anything to do with non-gaming and it was just
talking past each other or digging up arguments I didn't know how to
avoid getting baited over.



Kynn Bartlett wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Last year I reviewed a 3rd party D&D 4e product called "Races of the Shroud:
> The Apelord." I was kind of bothered by the racial coding and said so in my
> review, but I found I got dismissed a lot. With the recent controversy over
> the NY Post's chimp cartoon -- and heightened awareness of the way in which
> Africans and African Americans have been portrayed as monkeys -- I'm
> wondering if I was on to something after all.
>
> Here's the original post; what do you think?
>
> http://kynn.livejournal.com/871279.html
>
> --Kynn
>
>


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