Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[Magic-Mal]

No, Magic. She turned the tone of this thread when she responded with an unnece...you know what, the hell with the sugarcoasting and pretense, she turned the tone of this thread when she responded to valkyrie's response with a semi-racist post of its own. I'm gonna call it what it is. It was semi-racist. Not calling her racist, but the tone of her very first response was semi-racist in nature. That's what started this ridiculous argument over an asinine topic. It's not the first time she's shared similar language since that posting either. Are the other posters innocent by comparison? Depending on the response, no, some of the responses, mines included, aren't innocent either. But she set that tone, and here we are: the responses therein follow that tone all the way through to here. valkyrie's initial post was aggressive...but it wasn't wrong. And I agree with the tone there - one shouldn't be looking for context over the freaking character creation when there is no context to begin with.

Aggression is bad no matter what. It's not fair to say you agree with Valkyrie's aggression so she's right but disagree with Nandina's aggression so she's wrong. Aggression is aggression. And Valkyrie's chose to talk about the bit of race stuff in Nandina's post and then got aggressive with it, instead of simply responding to the suggestion. She could've even said a bit a both:

"No I don't think we need this or could have this because blahblahblah.

Also, please don't make this a RL racial issue blahblah."
But that didn't happen..

The only leg that Nandina would've had to stand on was if the character creator did not allow any darker skin tones. That would've been the only leg she would've had.

Wait... Just skin tone? She couldn't ask for "African" hairstyles or facial features(we already know the features are unlikely for #Yoshireasons)?