So that thing that Paul was talking about with unreasonable escalating?

That doesn’t happen just to white male straight writers.

Like, fuck, if a First Nations person took a strip out of me for Hope Is the Last Thing, I’d be all like, okay sure sure.

But this thing, it happens to other folks too. I’ve seen this, and the fear of this, kill creations by the very folks we’re supposed to be supporting.

Too often intersectionality, which is supposed to be a tool to better understand each other, combines with authenticity urges and status plays to make a place where no one can speak safely except possibly, and even then only maybe, about narrow areas with limited ability to imagine beyond our current cages.

Or, to be blunt, I as a white guy “expert” on Indian history could probably write an RPG in India. I would possibly take heat for it. Probably some of it would be deserved. Likely some of it wouldn’t. But that’s besides the point that I have had multiple friends of South Asian descent who have started and quit designing those games because they were afraid of the political backlash. 

The backlash from their own allies. Fuck the racist enemy, they were scared off by other liberals.