you should check out allthingsroleplay and their stance on the matter. apparently they think it's okay to condone this, but people are outraged with atr for saying that (look at the reblogs). it's really sickening to see how people are trying to justify this as okay. i'm going to pray for every single one of them.
i just went and checked them out, thanks for the tip! one thing i do have issue with is this:
“One thing I feel like some roleplayers these days forget is that even if a character is a murderer, racist, homophobic, or any other sort of path you want to take them down.. that does NOT mean the player believes those things, or that it makes them right. As writers being able to write from multiple perspectives with taboo topics and things that others may not agree with is a great ability to possess.”
while a role player may not believe these things, it still can be damaging for uneducated people (and I’m not saying anyone who is still in hs, who hasn’t studied a topic has a lack of knowledge in general, but rather do not posses the full breadth of knowledge needed to be able to approach certain standpoints from a way that doesn’t spiral into the role of a sympathizer).of course you might say, ‘well no, i don’t believe those things so I’m not a sympathizer!’ but taking things from a certain individuals pov has been done in order to humanize the people behind the masks. yes, a member of the kkk might love his family and dote on his son billy, but that does not make him a good person, and it is in a way excusing these acts to point out the good in people who aren’t. this can be very damaging!!! people are multi-faceted, there definitely are things going on in their lives and issues are not white and black. but is it okay to explore the psyche of a kkk member, to try and portray them in a way that humanizes the apparent ‘good’ aspects of their personality and puts their flaws on the backburner? to show that they are so much more than the racist rhetoric that they uphold? my answer to that is no, because it has been proved as something damaging, and it’s frowned on. especially when the platform that these characters, these plots, these stories are being built on are roleplaying sites. this is a hobby for people, these plots do not reach a great number of people, most don’t even branch out to read anyone’s threads other than their own. this is for you, for your entertainment and nothing more. the fact that it’s trying to be elevated like it’s some scholarly masterpiece, like they’re on such a high plane of self-awareness and that their writing somehow circumvents things that people have been correcting and fighting for years and years is kind of…not a great argument.
I also want to look at this quote:
“You glaze over that these events, that these things and people that believe these ways of life are okay, do exist… we’re not here to say “you can’t do that”.”
because I’ve seen a few people trying to construct a strawman to argue with instead of me. if people have bothered to read through my points (silly me though, why would they do that), i have stated multiple times i’m not after the erasure of history, that i’m not trying to quiet people from discussing events in history, but rather looking at the context, research, and platform that these issues are being revealed from. so i’m really not sure why they’re trying to make this my standpoint - maybe because it’s easier to argue with than my actual points?
however i am glad to see that multiple people are taking issue with this based on the reblogs, and that it’s a more serious issue than ‘just a character, just a site, just a roleplay plot’ - if it was just any of those things, then there wouldn’t be such a large amount of people who take offense to it, or see a problem with it.