I'm not "going for" anything. I'm letting them know that their phrasing comes across as racist and giving them opportunity to clarify their position. I'm not sure you can speak authoritatively on their meaning either.
Right. To me it came across as the editorial work was now being outsourced. A common cost-cutting practice that would result in: a) many names changing and b) names sounding foreign. The whole racist thing felt like flimsy extrapolation, that's all. Maybe I'm wrong and I'm defending some hardcore racist person, and if that's the case then I'm going to feel really stupid.