[This has already been brought up on the General forums but I feel its important to be mentioned here aswell]
For an expansion themed after South American cultures, I think the last thing the dev team should be doing is adding blatantly offensive sets by theming them after the conquistador's that colonised the region?
Especially after all the fiasco's with wrongly depicted cultures before you'd think they'd avoid doing this again. Most of the future sets seem fine(someone more knowledgeable than me may correct me-) but two of the sets blatantly resemble the Spanish Conquistadors who attacked and colonised Latin America during the 1500s which is extremely offensive
it's beyond important that the sets seen in the 7.3 previews for the new dungeon be altered to less resemble the Spanish Conquistadores and greater consideration put into the future of what you're depicting so you DON'T accidentally put fascistic themes into our heroes' wardrobe? In the expansion themed after the people its offensive to?
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For an expansion themed after South American cultures, I think the last thing the dev team should be doing is adding blatantly offensive sets by theming them after the conquistador's that colonised the region?
Especially after all the fiasco's with wrongly depicted cultures before you'd think they'd avoid doing this again. Most of the future sets seem fine(someone more knowledgeable than me may correct me-) but two of the sets blatantly resemble the Spanish Conquistadors who attacked and colonised Latin America during the 1500s which is extremely offensive
it's beyond important that the sets seen in the 7.3 previews for the new dungeon be altered to less resemble the Spanish Conquistadores and greater consideration put into the future of what you're depicting so you DON'T accidentally put fascistic themes into our heroes' wardrobe? In the expansion themed after the people its offensive to?
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