I've been quietly saying this since my very very early days of playing D&D as a *teenager*, and become much more vocal about it in recent years.

D&D (and a lot of other TTRPGs stemming from it) has a deeply problematic portrayal of race baked into its core mechanics. That's it. https://twitter.com/HoldenShearer/status/1254414174484140034

Like there's frankly no way I think someone with even a semi-decent understanding of what racism is can look at how many D&D races are written in the core rulebooks, fluff books, and managed in character creation, without realising that there's some problematic shit there.

See this thread for a very simple example of this: https://twitter.com/AjeyPandey/status/1254442473474199553

and see this as what a genuinely positive alternative can look like! https://twitter.com/GabeJamesGames/status/1245878124883202051