I am fully aware than normal words have been given obscene, profane, or scatological meanings, but where in my comments did I use any in that meaning (or to my sheltered life, any other)?
Rather than insulting anyone's heritage, I gave full disclosure of my own. I disagree with my primarily southern ancestry's views in the 1860s and after, but I don't insult them. For more worse than better, they are a part of me. However, I don't have to believe them myself.
I don't see why the defensiveness over something a sesquicentury ago. I thought we had moved on.
Role-playing games, even the fantasy settings, depend on a knowledge of history. "Improving the state of the art" will suffer if we ban this aspect.
Paul
From: Ted Skirvin <tedskirvin@yahoo.com>
To: CAR-PGa <car-pga@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 10:35:25 AM
Subject: [car-pga] Re: Congressional Candidate Condemned for Role-Playing a Nazi
Okay, this sort of thing is why some people have left this email list
and become disenchanted with CAR-PGa in general.
Certainly, historical re-enactments are enough like LARPs to bear
discussion on this list. And, the topic of what is "okay" and what is
"not okay" in role playing is a reasonable topic for this list.
But, tangents should not get too far off the main topic. And, using
terms that insult a person's heritage(regardless of what one may think
of that heritage) will only cause division in CAR-PGa. Using curse
words does not help, either.
Everyone, please don't veer off the roleplaying focus.
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