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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8581386" data-attributes="member: 7023887">I don't care what words followed up that statement. I cut off the end because it wasn't necessary. Saying "All we know is that it's made by POC, I would prefer if we had talented writers" is not at all made okay by following that up with "I don't care if they're POC or not, talent isn't based on skin color". It's like saying "I'm not racist, but . . ."The post literally said, "All we know is all of them are POC, which is great from an inclusiveness standpoint, but I'd still rather buy products written by talented writers". They were complaining about the quality of a product that has not been released yet and connected the assumed poor quality to the skin tone of the writers. If that's not racist dogwhistling, I don't know what is."I don't care about the skin color of the writers, but I'm going to assume something about the quality of the product based solely on the skin color of the writers" is absolutely what they were saying.A good question is "would someone have said this for any other product"? For me, the answer is very easily an absolute "no". No one would have written "I don't care about the skin color of the writers, but I'd prefer if this book was written by talented writers" for literally any other D&D product. If WotC hadn't stated that the book was only written by POC, the post we're discussing wouldn't have happened. That, to me, speaks volumes.</blockquote>

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