Wanting to be hated

[Akiyass-moon-guard (Akiyass)]

@Baalsamael-turalyon

for thinking that in-game representations of real-world cultures don’t require Blizzard to put effort into their narrative depth within the context of the implied meta-narrative and the use of real world cultures found both in the imperial core (ie Global North) and the Global South that are both Subaltern (in the Spivak sense) or Elite (in the Mills sense) with zero sense of responsibility to our heritage, history, or characterization, or that WoW can use real world racist tropes for various gameplay races but it’s okay because that’s not their intent so they again have zero responsibility to balance out the racist trope they did use with a narrative depth that empowers that gameplay race.

I would like you to go back in this thread, and show me when I said any of that.

Because all I have said, really, has been that just because inspiration was drawn from a real world culture for the sake of fiction, doesn’t mean that work of fiction is representation of that culture.

For example, Stormwind isn’t European representation. It is watered down, generic fantasy, that doesn’t represent anything uniquely European. To even say so is ignorant and racist, and likely from the mouth of someone who has never been to Europe, or knows anything about European culture.