Saw this posted to Mastodon and I thought it was worth sharing.
I’m a bit confused by the article. It starts off by trying to analyze whether or not yoon-suin is ‘bad’ because of ‘orientalism’ and then let’s it off the hook because it seems to be instead inspired by western fantasy tropes which then also makes it ‘bad’ for another reason.
I would be really interested in an explanation of how to do this properly - creating something new that isn’t western fantasy without being inspired by somewhere else or doing it respectively - is it even possible?
I’m also interested in dismissing works because they include some evil that is real in the world. In this case its a caste system. Must all societies depicted in rpgs work be wholly good - devoid of all the real evils that people and societies do?
A very interesting topic that I unfortunately don’t have any good opinions on…
They are arming up and trying to cancel Yoon Suin again.
They have been shot down in the past. They keep trying to find fault.
“Cancelling” is not a thing.
I am not saying that this article is good (I am not saying it’s bad either), but this article doesn’t even say “Orientalism = Yoon-Suin = bad”, and even if it was, there still would not be any “cancelling” going on. Because it’s not a thing, just something people came up with to enforce their image of “culture wars”.
Cancelling is totally a thing and it’s disengenuious to pretend it isn’t. A few years ago progressives were even using “cancel” as a verb when annoyed with someone.
This isn’t to say that anyone who faces consequences for their actions has been cancelled, sometimes it’s simply their employer or someone else that makes the decision to cut ties, but the idea of the social media pile on was once known as “cancelling” by the people doing it.
Sure but this is not an example of that.
