Quote from: Godsmonkey on February 02, 2021, 09:01:51 AM

Quote from: Reckall on February 02, 2021, 07:48:24 AM
Out of curiosity I finally registered an account on RPG.net. I immediately motored to the "Infractions" forum, where warnings and bans are posted for all to see.

And the first thing I read is this one:

Daz Florp Lebam receives a 🚫 Thirty-Day Ban - Cultural appropriation

For what? For posting ideas about how his cleric could build a "Sweat Lodge" ritual.

These RPG.net people are sick in the head. They should consult a psychiatrist ASAP. I'm totally serious.

RuneQuest creator Greg Stafford died in his sweat lodge. Maybe the mods at rpgnet put a permaban on him?

Too soon?

They haven't realized how quietly anti-subversive the Great Pendragon Campaign is - the defenders of medieval feminism fin amor are called White Knights...

I just finished a campaign at Crusader Kings II (the videogame) as a Scandinavian Pagan Ruler. I held Great Blots (big banquets with my vassals preceded by human sacrifices to ingratiate the Gods), ravaged and ransacked Europe's coasts, and even got to reform my religion and organise it in a definite set of rules. I guess that a self-PermaBan on RPG.net is due.

No, really: any RPGer who played in the Al-Qadim setting without being from the 1001 Nights' lands should be banned for cultural appropriation. This is true, too, if you are a Coptic Christian from Egypt who plays an Arthurian knight in Pendragon.

This, BTW, being the "always missed by SJW" crux of the matter. "Cultural Appropriation" works both ways. By this logic I can ban a Muslim because he played a "Fantasy European Middle-Ages" RPG - let's say a Paladin from Cormyr using D&D 3.5, and holding beliefs and rituals inspired by Christianity. That "Cultural Appropriation" segregates the very people you think you are "respecting" never crosses their minds.

What a bunch of bozos.

The reasoning for the 'sweat lodge ban' included a moment that made me want to tell the mods "Check your privilege":

QuoteThis would be the equivalent of "Hey, I've heard good things about Mass helping people feel like a community, anyone want to help my luck cleric stat out the benefits from Mass in game terms?", except that what we're talking about here are religious practices that have been the object of persecution in the past, which adds a different dimension to this.

  Not to diminish the way Native American practices have been suppressed and even trivialized, but it's not a case of "Practice A has been persecuted, but Practice B hasn't." (It's very hard to find a religion that hasn't been both persecutor and persecuted throughout the long run of human history.)