(08-03-2015, 01:56 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Actually, the stuff you outlined in Gridania probably does happen in more isolated, out-of-the-way villages where Conjurers and Wailers pass through more rarely. And we already know that the Ishgard nobles have been toying with Hyur women (and probably men, too) for hundreds of years now. Â There are enough NPC comments as you wander around to make it clear that most of the servant staff are Hyur, and that the women are often "meddled with." Â Hilda is another great example of that.
I don't doubt it, and in Gridania's case I am in fact kind of banking on it in future events! What I doubt is the desire of players who are interested in playing racism when it comes to portraying the real extremes of racism. If the evidence in-game suggests that racism can get that overt and brutal, then the expressions of racism desired by the OP and others in this thread seems sort of . . . soft, in comparison.Â
I find it unlikely, for example, that Kale is going to have a moment where he gets some Blades together and strings up some Ala Mhigan unfortunates in an expression of nationalist sentiment. Such a thing would be a powerful scene, I think, if played effectively, in which he makes clear that he has cast aside ethnicity in favor of nationality, even though he is in a nation in which he himself would admit he can only be a second-class city given the dominance of lalafell in its ruling class. But it is more likely that Verad will shave off his beard before that happens.*
So what's being argued isn't the extremes of racism, but rather the right to rude remarks and mild bigotry, using the implied extremes of Eorzean racism to justify it. I'm not sure if the point is to show they could be RPing much worse than what is available or if the two are being conflated as identical expressions of racism, but really, it seems very mild. Make remarks, by all means! When somebody forms a PC lynch mob to hunt down undeserving Duskwights, then I'll take more interest.
*I bring up Kale as an example here only because I am at least passingly familar with his character and because this is a frequent concern of his, not out of any particular rancor.
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