... um, I can't figure out what your argument is here, honestly. Aren't those the same thing?
Very nearly so, yes. I'm making a very subtle distinction in the idea that you can do at least two things here. On the one hand, you can remove Native Americans because you think they're irrelevant, or at least make the point that they're irrelevant. On the other hand, you can remove Native Americans because they're an obstacle to your story, without any intent what so ever as to casting them as irrelevant. In the former, you're making a pretty slimy argument. In the latter, you're being ignorant of what that does to your world's internal consistency. Both will still offend, but I think they're slightly different things.
Well, not really a mutant thing at all, I think;
Sorry, I should've elaborated, I mean mutant as in my head is full of cowboys and oregon trail people and native americans and mad frenchmen and The Dark Tower and Josey Wales and all that. With John Wayne standing overwatch and Wes Studi being a total jerk somewhere in the background.
And yeah, I agree with you on the continuum idea.
My personal background is very mutt like, but it's all european/scandy mutt. Sometimes I wonder if someone's going to yell at me for having my opinions and being white.
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Very nearly so, yes. I'm making a very subtle distinction in the idea that you can do at least two things here. On the one hand, you can remove Native Americans because you think they're irrelevant, or at least make the point that they're irrelevant. On the other hand, you can remove Native Americans because they're an obstacle to your story, without any intent what so ever as to casting them as irrelevant. In the former, you're making a pretty slimy argument. In the latter, you're being ignorant of what that does to your world's internal consistency. Both will still offend, but I think they're slightly different things.
Well, not really a mutant thing at all, I think;
Sorry, I should've elaborated, I mean mutant as in my head is full of cowboys and oregon trail people and native americans and mad frenchmen and The Dark Tower and Josey Wales and all that. With John Wayne standing overwatch and Wes Studi being a total jerk somewhere in the background.
And yeah, I agree with you on the continuum idea.
My personal background is very mutt like, but it's all european/scandy mutt. Sometimes I wonder if someone's going to yell at me for having my opinions and being white.