Murder is 100% normalized in D&D. Murderhobos(PCs) are called murderhobos for a reason. Descration of corpses and graverobbing are also normalized in D&D. How many tombs are looted by PCs? How many bodies are cut open and certain parts of intelligent monsters taken for magic items and/or potion creation? There are lots of normalized crimes in every day D&D. So do you want those removed as well?
Plenty of people in stories and real life are racist in some way without it being normalized.
How about the crimes against elvenity? But this is just bizarre stance. That bad guys exist in the setting doesn't mean the PCs need to be the bad guys. Most stories, and D&D in particular, require conflict to function, be that conflict internal or external. This often necessitates some fictional actors who have stances which we as players might find morally unacceptable. Similarly we might want to play flawed characters, who are not morally perfect, in order to have a storyline about personal growth. Depicting unpleasant things in fiction does not automatically mean endorsing them (and usually doesn't.) To criticise a bad thing the story must be able to depict the bad thing.
By the way, graverobbing is a modern problem, in the context of looting archeological artifacts or vandalizing them.
In the context of D&D, "humanity" means Humanoids.
That bad guys exist in the setting doesn't mean the PCs need to be the bad guys. Most stories, and D&D in particular, require conflict to function, be that conflict internal or external. This often necessitates some fictional actors who have stances which we as players might find morally unacceptable. Similarly we might want to play flawed characters, who are not morally perfect, in order to have a storyline about personal growth. Depicting unpleasant things in fiction does not automatically mean endorsing them (and usually doesn't.) To criticise a bad thing the story must be able to depict the bad thing.
I just rewatched Star Trek VI, the Undiscovered Country recently. A stellar film. And obviously wouldn't function at all without the hatred and mistrust between the Federation and the Klingons, and personal animosity Kirk felt, that he had to overcome. The film is very much about prejudices being bad, but to tell that story, it needs to actually show those prejudices and the bad outcomes they lead to. I don't even understand what sort of bland stories where nothing negative can be depicted people here want to tell.
And I've never had any kind of systemic racism in mine. That doesn't mean anything when looking at the rules. The rules are all about PCs running around murdering things, desecrating bodies, robbing graves, and more.
Okay. Again, that's not the rules.
I don't see how having racism be a potential story element in D&D normalizes it.
