
Hiram357 |
By 'you're' I didn't mean you personally, but the people at Pathfinder. Regardless, trivializing, as you previously put it, tends to offend, so my point stands. You would also find very little in common with vodoun and the pulp voodoo that tends to be portrayed in popular culture, so the same line of reasoning can be applied.
To wit, this blog entry is symptomatic of an over-sensitiveness that permeates the mainstream western psyche nowadays, and that annoys me. Wes Schneider might as well apologize in advance for offending people who could possibly take umbrage to such a tiptoeing approach, while we're at it...
Well, considering that the entire Savage Tide campaign is one that sort of romanticizes colonialism and tends to cast the "natives" as simple savages anyway, it would be easy for a person of a marginalized group to take a little umbrage. But I think it boils down more to simple ignorance of African and Vodoun history and sprituality that leads to these potrayls in the media, which in turn feeds misperceptions about Voodoo...vice malice or overt racism.