Ok. I got #DCCRPG in 2012 and played the fuck out of it for years and TODAY is the first time I ever heard anyone assume that the dwarf's ability to smell gold is a "Jewish stereotype" and is antisemitic.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? Nobody thought that but YOU. Go away.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? Nobody thought that but YOU. Go away.
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hogwash.
Like I said on another reply... this kind of thing is so waaaaay outside my experience. Like... it's utterly foreign to me. I never heard of antisemitism until I was a grown ass man. All the overt racism I knew growing up was aimed at black folks. And it was pretty fucking bad too.
Anyway yeah this is not very high on my list of things to care about
“I do think of the ‘Dwarves’ like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations and [t]he Dwarves of course are quite obviously–couldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously, constructed to be Semitic […]” (Letter 176: 1955)
https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/tolkiens-dwarves-and-alleged-anti-semitism/
I don't think DCC is attempting to be harmful though. The "smelling" weirdly can make it feel problematic; if they simply "magically detect" it that's a totally different vibe.
"I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine."
"I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people."