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** The parallel between the bigotry Drizzt suffers and the bigotry people of color in real life suffer doesn't quite hang together. While the racial stereotypes (of savagery, sadism, demon worship, etc.) attributed to real-life people of color are bullshit, 99.9% of all drow really ''are'' malicious, sadistic, demon-worshipping sociopaths who will enslave, sacrifice and kill any non-drow they can get their hands on. In this context, the nasty reactions Drizzt encounters from humans and many other races is at least understandable, considering that they don't know him and initially have little to no reason to assume he's different from his kin. Once Drizzt starts proving himself, however, the humans and others start treating him better. It could, however, be said that the discrimination Drizzt faces is more akin to that against dissidents from countries with tyrannical and xenophobic regimes, such as Nazi Germany, if said dissident leaves for a country that has been in some way targeted by his nation's regime.
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** The parallel between the bigotry Drizzt suffers and the bigotry people of color in real life suffer doesn't quite hang together. While the racial stereotypes (of savagery, sadism, demon worship, etc.) attributed to real-life people of color are bullshit, 99.9% of all drow really ''are'' malicious, sadistic, demon-worshipping sociopaths who will enslave, sacrifice and kill any non-drow they can get their hands on. In this context, the nasty reactions Drizzt encounters from humans and many other races is at least understandable, considering that they don't know him and initially have little to no reason to assume he's different from his kin. Once Drizzt starts proving himself, however, the humans and others start treating him better. It could, however, be said that the discrimination Drizzt faces is more akin to that against dissidents from countries with tyrannical and xenophobic regimes, such as Nazi Germany, UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, if said dissident leaves for a country that has been in some way targeted by his nation's regime.
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Drizzt was, when he was first created, actually pretty original - a Dark Elf who showed DarkIsNotEvil and wasn't just a random {{Mook}} but a main character and faces discrimination. However, this caused a ''slew'' of knockoff characters in all Dungeons and Dragons and D&D Adjacent games (slipping over to Pathfinder). This has caused "Drizzt" or even "Drow Ranger" to become somewhat of a swear word amongst players who are sick to ''death'' of Drizzt wannabes, while the concept of "chaotic neutral Drow" became such banal staple as "[[VanillaProtagonist human male fighter]]" - a thing people make as their PC when having no concept or even simple desire to bother.
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Drizzt was, when he was first created, actually pretty original - a Dark Elf who showed DarkIsNotEvil and wasn't just a random {{Mook}} but a main character and who faces discrimination. However, this caused a ''slew'' of knockoff characters in all Dungeons and Dragons and D&D Adjacent games (slipping over to Pathfinder). This has caused "Drizzt" or even "Drow Ranger" to become somewhat of a swear word amongst players who are sick to ''death'' of Drizzt wannabes, while the concept of "chaotic neutral Drow" became such a banal staple as "[[VanillaProtagonist human male fighter]]" - a thing people make as their PC when having no concept or even simple desire to bother.
