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Is racism wrong?

Is racism wrong?

  • Yes

    Votes: 88 83.8%
  • No

    Votes: 15 14.3%
  • There is no such thing as racism

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • Total voters
    105
There's nothing wrong with honest assesment of the differences between races, and to an extent it's not even wrong to take pride in one's own race/culture.

When it becomes racism (and wrong) is when that belief turns to the belief that some races are superior or inferior and should be treated differently.

Nothing worng with an honest assesment of race, and nothing wrong with taking pride in race slash culture.

First of all if we were to take an honest assement of race, it would be that race is an artificial construct created by society for superiority. Race in a genetic manner does not exist. Infact if it did that would mean that a black person and a white person could not have a child together. Much like a
leopard and a cheetah.

As for the second part of your post. Race and culture are two entirely different things.
 
First of all if we were to take an honest assement of race, it would be that race is an artificial construct created by society for superiority. Race in a genetic manner does not exist. Infact if it did that would mean that a black person and a white person could not have a child together. Much like a
leopard and a cheetah.

Hold on.

Nobody said people of different races were different species, dude.

Race clearly exists genetically - the groups of racial characteristics are carried in our genes. It's just that they are nothing more than a group of characteristics like any other, with no more significance than any other. But they are genetic.
 
Hold on.

Nobody said people of different races were different species, dude.

Race clearly exists genetically - the groups of racial characteristics are carried in our genes. It's just that they are nothing more than a group of characteristics like any other, with no more significance than any other. But they are genetic.

Not true. I would pick to be Human or Orc before I picked Elf or Half-Elf. Their racial traits are fail. :lol:
 
Not true. I would pick to be Human or Orc before I picked Elf or Half-Elf. Their racial traits are fail. :lol:

I thought you were already half-elf. :2razz:
 
Not true. I would pick to be Human or Orc before I picked Elf or Half-Elf. Their racial traits are fail. :lol:

Human, seriously? Their racial traits are fail, except for the ability to assign their own stat bonuses. Professional Adaptability and Skill Specialization versus Dense Musculature and Accelerated Healing?

Of course, you can always pick Human with Greater Orc Blood for the best of both worlds. Name your own mods and swap out your crap talents for sweet, sweet Orc candy.
 
Human, seriously? Their racial traits are fail, except for the ability to assign their own stat bonuses. Professional Adaptability and Skill Specialization versus Dense Musculature and Accelerated Healing?

Of course, you can always pick Human with Greater Orc Blood for the best of both worlds. Name your own mods and swap out your crap talents for sweet, sweet Orc candy.

Ahh but see I'm somewhat of a scatterclassing renaissance man and if I chose any other race I'd never level up. :S Though there are plenty of bonuses available at character creation to counter the drabness of being human. Secondary though, I'd go halfling for their agility and sneakiness.
 
Ahh but see I'm somewhat of a scatterclassing renaissance man and if I chose any other race I'd never level up. :S

Yeah, but there's no point in having more than two or three Professions. The 5 DP discount per Profession is barely worth it.
 
But there's something magical about being a Rogue/Mage with a hint of Assassin or Cleric.

Well, Hell. If you're going to do it that way, play a Necromancer, buy the Subtle talent, and alternate between the Assassin Training Package and advancing your spells. Or go Shadowblade with Arcane Power.

In the long run, it's better than mucking about with multiclassing.
 
Well, Hell. If you're going to do it that way, play a Necromancer, buy the Subtle talent, and alternate between the Assassin Training Package and advancing your spells. Or go Shadowblade with Arcane Power.

In the long run, it's better than mucking about with multiclassing.

Yeah, there's nothing like a solid 20-50+ levels of a single class. :lol: btw which universe are you referencing?
 
Yeah, there's nothing like a solid 20-50+ levels of a single class. :lol: btw which universe are you referencing?

The game system's HARP. The free Lite rules are available at the link, though just about everything I'm talking about is either in the Full version or one of the supplements. There's an official campaign setting, a space opera spinoff with its own campaign setting, and my company's in the process of making a third-party campaign setting.

Of course, I've used HARP rules to run everything from Buck Rogers to the Mushroom Kingdom.
 
Sometimes, I agree with the posts being made, and sometimes I disagree. this is the first time I can say, I have no idea what any of the last few posts means. They appear to be in English, I know what all of the words mean, but the meaning of the paragraphs totally escapes me.

I believe it may be related to not being into video games, maybe?
 
Wrong kind of games, but yeah. We're talking about tabletop roleplaying games.
 
It's wrong, but I don't really care about racists as long as they don't hold any power in the government. The redneck racists walking around here in Louisiana are just something to laugh at.
 
It's wrong, but I don't really care about racists as long as they don't hold any power in the government. The redneck racists walking around here in Louisiana are just something to laugh at.

What about the negro racists running around Louisiana? They fun to laugh at too?
 
I gotta better question: all those folks--yes, all you Libbos--that claim to hate racism and insist on diversity, are you all going to stop picking on White, southern Christians? I'll bet not.

"Picking on?"

White southern Christians are barely even a public icon, if they even that. They aren't talked about in political discourse or anything else. Evangelicals - and of any race - are the subject of liberal antipathy, and they are dispersed throughout the nation. Furthermore, constitutionally-derived arguments for why precepts of their religion ought not be included in the country's legal or political systems are not discrimination. If nobody's religion is allowed, then it is a universal prohibition; it does not discriminate.

I don't insist on diversity. Indeed, I would prefer if people were comparable to me in overall political and religious outlook. "Diversity" is just a hassle that needs to be addressed in the fairest way possible, because other people have their own will and it is required of me (by multiple authorities) to respect that.
 
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WTF!!! 237 voted no!!! OMFG this world is raciest.

God Help This People
 
WTF!!! 237 voted no!!! OMFG this world is raciest.

God Help This People

Only reason I voted "yes" is that the idea of "race" itself is a primitive superstition. There's nothing wrong with discrimination and hate.
 
Only reason I voted "yes" is that the idea of "race" itself is a primitive superstition. There's nothing wrong with discrimination and hate.

Well, yes, irrational hate is wrong.
 
Only reason I voted "yes" is that the idea of "race" itself is a primitive superstition. There's nothing wrong with discrimination and hate.


Nothing wrong with discrimination and hate? C'mon, let's see you back that one up!
 
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