Redcloak's failed characterization, and what it means for the comic as a whole.

[Omergideon]

So D&D makes you racist.

Oh boy, just wait til Jack Chick gets ahold of that one.

More that a certain kind of attitude, that people claim is justified or even essential to DnD, is indicative of a certain susceptability to something such as racism. Or the general attitudes that can support it.

I think Rick-Griffins suggestion about the "evil foreigner" concept is a pretty good one to see the issue with. It is very easy to, when trying to identfiy the villain, give them an obvious trait such as a foreign nationality. And when this is coupled with a simple tale it can lead to problems. What once was a shorthand for character identification leads to the effect of "just cast a foreign part. No need to add more explaining why this guy is evil". The risk of doing this may be small for some. But for others with a specific attitude it provides a harmful validation of that. Much as Dwarves in Tolkien were given a certain specific (and at times nuanced) character, but in modern fantasy we have "the dwarf" as a stock character. Once a character is made a dwarf we stop needing to think. If this happens with an evil character, once nuanced but progressivley simplified over time, we run a risk. And the closer to real life the fiction is the greater the risk of there being a validation of the idea that "group x is always a villain" and not the hoped for original "character y, who happens to be group x, is the villain for z and g reasons".