If a film today cast a white actress as a character based in sub-Saharan Africa, it would also be review bombed by angry fans. And certainly Gizmodo wouldn't call that "racist".
John Rohan
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I don’t think WoTC was listening to their fans. Has anyone really complained about this other than a few extremists? Keep in mind that WotC is now owned by Hasbro and is part of a corporate conglomerate, and so follows the woke politics of big corporations.
We have been down a similar road before. In the 1989, DnD…
No, that’s not where the drow came from. The drow were based on ancient Scandinavian legends of the good “liosalfar” (light elves) and the evil “dockalfar” (dark elves). DnD borrowed heavily from the works of Tolkien, where all elves are basically good, and Gygax wanted to add a little spice with a race of evil elves…
Funny how liberals want to decrease policing in all parts of our lives, except for speech. If you said “Elliot Page, star of Juno” I wouldn’t have known who you are talking about. After all, there were other actors in that film.
Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali, but there was no “deadname” controversy over…
She didn’t say the Lockheed L-1011 wasn’t in use in the 1980s, she said it wasn’t in use to New York.