in game racism and real life racism

[Dorganath]

dfiremann - 7/20/2005  5:08 PM

I'm Duradin Fireaxe.  And my best friend in game is an Elf...

Pssst!  Half-elf

[dfiremann]

Arggh, ye bloody bastard!  (eep!), I mean, er, half elf!

I did say I wasn't going to post again.  But I suspect whatever goes on from my post maybe be attributed to me anyway.

My intention was not to accuse those who roleplay racism as racists.  That would be reactionary and it would be wrong.  

I am very happy to play with strangers, who I share a trust with, to respect each other and to share a collective space with.  With no actual identity revealed it would be easy to use this space an opportunity for personal attacks.  This has not been my experience.  I have found the players in Layonara to be openminded, respectful of their characters behaviour on other and generally good eggs (not that I associate eggs with being good )

I would ask the community to leave this debate as is.  For totally selfish reasons.  Hey I wanna have a bit of fun on-line without being approached as the starter of the dabate-that-will-not-rest.

For those of you on both sides of this virtual fence, I am glad to know that there are people out there who gie a damn as much as I do.

Germaine Lorn

[Acacea]

Well said, to Germaine? I can somewhat understand the concern, and was just irritated at the start because Acacea is so playfully irreverant that it was a bit of a jolt to see a thread in which people say she could be (and has been, apparently) offending other people OUT of character, when I haven't received any PM's or tells about it. I was a little on the defensive when I wasn't really being attacked (just poked a bit).