Mr. neil gaiman sir, your jewish, right?
are goblins (Like in dnd) inherently antisemetic or does it despend on you you design/write them?
I have no idea how to respond to this. I mean, part of me wants to say that goblins represent Orthodox Jews, hobgoblins are Conservative Jews and centaurs are Reform Jews, while gryphons are Mormons, gnomes are Baptists, garden gnomes are Anabaptists, Minotaurs are Seventh Day Adventists and Kobolds are Christian Scientists. Catholics are boggarts and Buddhists are Brownies and Jainists are Pixies while Unitarians are undoubtedly represented by mermaids...
But some people would think I was being silly. And worse, others might think I was being serious.
No, goblins are just goblins, pixies are pixies. Fairies and other such creatures represent themselves. Which isn't to say that you couldn't take the attributes that various hate groups attribute to hated minorities and give them to a group of mythic or folkloric creatures. All your pixies could have hooked noses, be untrustworthy, obsessed by money, and have a secret conspiracy organized by the Elders of Pixiedom and yeah, that would be creepy and consciously or unconsciously antisemitic. But that's on you as an author, not on the pixies.
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