This entire article is outlandish overreaction.

At least the commentariat of The Root was pushing back pretty strongly on The Root article about it.

That pretty much somes up 99% of the “outrage” reported by the news thjese days.  Its a handful of people on Twitter bitching.

No one is ‘so mad’, it’s just like 20 people on Twitter. I’ve seen just as many people be happy to be represented and feel seen by the campaign.

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”