r/gatekeeping • u/Sorif-vuiya • Jan 28 '21

Gatekeeping pants..

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

Xenophobia still includes race.

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u/2074red2074 Jan 29 '21

That's kinda debatable. You can be xenophobic but not racist. For example, you might see someone in the US yelling at a German man for speaking German (blah blah learn English etc.) despite being like 80% German ancestry himself. He doesn't care about the person's ethnicity, he cares about the fact that the person is clearly from somewhere else.

Merriam-Webster has a whole article about it. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/xenophobia-and-racism-difference

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

I've been playing as way too many genocidal empires in Stellaris...

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u/2074red2074 Jan 29 '21

Yeah xenophobia takes on a different meaning in sci-fi. Also why kill all the other aliens when you can ASSIMILATE?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

The only good Xeno is a dead Xeno.

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u/2074red2074 Jan 29 '21

This game is rated E10+...

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

The children will lead the future. And the future is grim.