| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Graht) |
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| Subject: | Races (was: No subject) |
| Date: | Wed Mar 27 14:25:01 2002 |
>According to Rich Stokes, on Wed, 27 Mar 2002 the word on the street was...
>
> > 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...
I live to serve ;)
http://www.newsreel.org/films/blueeyed.htm
http://www.horizonmag.com/4/jane-elliott.asp
To Life,
-Graht
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader II
http://www.graht.com
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