outsourcing personal opinions wholesale to articles that others have written, without being able to reformulate/articulate said opinions in your own words, does not make for an especially compelling argument.
I don't care what WotC thinks, I don't care what Polygon writers think, and I don't care to argue about something as volatile yet useless as drawing comparisons between real-world races and fantasy races, because I also think that's all really, really stupid and tiring, and being offended on the behalf of others is not a very productive use of my time.
I wrote two short replies expressing my thoughts using entirely my own words. it probably took me less than four minutes to write both comments plus this one. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove, other than your frustration at my unwillingness to engage with these tired, played-out contemporary-politicization-of-fantasy talking points?
That for someone who doesn’t want to engage, you sure are engaging a lot.
Either you don’t care, in which case you wouldn’t bother to continuing to reply, or you do actually care but just don’t want to express what you know is an unpopular opinion, and are just side-stepping it with this whole “I’m better than this argument” attitude.
the "aha, I baited you into replying to my reply to your comment, see, you do care after all, if you really didn't care then you wouldn't reply" schtick is incredibly tired and played-out too, as well as insultingly petty and completely unbecoming.
if you were willing to rephrase whatever opinions you assimilated from plural Polygon articles into your own words and ask what I think about them, then I might have been slightly more likely to engage with them (your opinions). but merely repeatedly linking to something someone else wrote and saying "so what do you think about that, huh?" is not exactly interesting discourse. there is no "intellectual curiosity" (HN rules) happening here, just weak attempts at baiting the same old tired Internet arguments from the past decade, which many people, myself included, are long since exhausted with.
what do you expect to gain from this continued exchange?
(note that I'm posing a question to you, inviting you to reply to me, if you so choose, and, if you do, I won't mock or belittle you for replying, because this is a discussion website, and that would be silly.)
If you had read the article provided, you'd have also seen that Wizards agrees with the opinion and has modified their backstory: https://www.polygon.com/23339180/dnd-spelljammer-racist-hado...