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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9140063" data-attributes="member: 6879661">The Curse of Ham is racist because it was developed into an ideology to justify racist oppression and is clearly and patently not the actual cause of differences in skin pigmentation.Do you not think you’re being a bit hyperbolic here? I think we should be more cautious when ascribing racism to something simply for sharing similarities else to something when it doesn’t share the actual racist elements that causes that thing to be racist.Some fairly fringe depictions of the biblical story of the curse of ham are racist - ergo all fictional curses that change someone’s skin colour are racist. That seems a stretch to me.There is of course a solution if you feel that is the case… the curse of The drow is racist propaganda told by sun elves to justify the banishment of the drow after the fact, and the pigmentation elements are a magical response to the semi-magical elves not getting enough sunlight/exposure to the radiation of the underdark.Or just ignore the whole curse thing altogether <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷🏻‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fb-2642.png" title="Man shrugging: light skin tone    :man_shrugging_tone1:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone1:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>