| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | Races (was: No subject) |
| Date: | Wed Mar 27 14:00:01 2002 |
> That's exactly the kind of thing that players ought to expect when they
> play a non-human. Especially a meta-variant like an ogre or oni.
It's the way most racism works IRL, so why not in SR? Sure, you've got a
small number of people who openly discriminate against others, but in
general this means they're either stupid or in a large group (or have some
other kind of back-up, like the law). The vast majority of racism is small
things, like being given worse service than other people, being refused
entry to locations, and so on.
A very good source, BTW, is a documentary I saw on Discovery a few months
ago about an American former school teacher who gives racism classes by
dividing the class into those with blue eyes and those with another eye
color. She then treats the blue-eyed ones in much the same way minorities
are treated in (American) society, which drives the point home very well.
Unfortunately I've forgotten both this woman's name and the title of the
documentary...
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