Magic the Gathering, "Too Toxic to Ever Clean Up."
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So the first complaint is "these people have pointy hoods. Clearly KKK, racist. Also the artist used Hitler once, so clearly Nazi." I cannot even fathom that stretch. But even then, its called Invoke Prejudice. As in, if it was meant to be the KKK its still using negative terms to describe the action. Evil is allowed to be depicted.
Then they get mad that "white is good, black is not" in the color wheel, as if that isn't literal human instinct. I'm sorry that black folk share a name with the color of the night itself, but that's correlation not causation.
And then I finally gave up when "women are sexualized in these super stylized almost pulpy artwork, that's bad." As if that particular art style, and the 80s fantasy genre in general they were being created as a homage to, wasn't meant to be cheesy and over the top in that manner.
There is a good fix for that black and night. Stop forcing people to self-identify by their skin tone. Leave it as a descriptor, like weight and height, instead of a group identity. The first step is for the government itself to stop.
This is also why they didn't want the citizenship question. It makes people aware of their American identity.