On a slightly related note, Ryo Mizuno, author of the manga/anime Record of the Lodoss War, made a tweet expressing concern, based on the episode of Community that was recently memory holed, that the entire concept of dark elves might soon be considered racist resulting in his old manga getting the same treatment. This, of course, is the logical conclusion of the entire "evil races" line of thinking we are seeing today.
https://twitter.com/rayforcegame/status/1277189790857756672
Wait til they discover "Good Guys Wear Black", 'Batman', and 'Darth Vader' are all white guys dressed in black.
So now any negative connotation to the physical appearance of "darkness" in any association with 'negativity' even as an objective truth "Black Holes are singularities from which light can't escape" - are all racist.
Thanks WotC. How many corollaries of this insanity will fundamentally change D&D ultimately by this logic?
No more Ninja in Kara-tur? Can't have black pajamas on assassins.
No more Duergar? Evil slave-economy dark-skinned dwarves.
No more Jolly Roger flags... that black background is offensive.
No more Spelljammer. Too much black in space where evil shit lives.
No more Necromancy. Too much edgelord black robes, and black-colored spell-effects.
No more Evards Black Tentacles? Clearly racist and allusion to the enslavement of Africans from centuries ago.
No more Evil. Because you know... we're all on a spectrum.
No more Anti-Paladins - see above.
No more Negative Plane in fact. It's always portrayed as dark.
No more Shadowvar. Shades.Prolly throw Wraiths and Spectres in there too.
this is kinda fun!