I think I'm going to need a little education on this one.

They pulled an episode an episode of #Community because Chang was in blackface.

I know the episode well, it's actually one of my favorites.

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In the episode the study group play D&D, and Chang is cosplaying is player character - a drow, which is an elf with jet black skin and usually silver or black hair. He's even wearing a white wig. It's oddly specific to be lumped in with other instances of blackface. 2/

This isn't a hill I'm willing to die on or anything, and I'm willing to have my mind changed on this, but at first glance this is similar to putting a ban on Charlie Chaplin movies because Hitler had a moustache like that too. 3/End

Update on this...

Consider my mind changed. An old gaming acquaintance of mine sent me a rather long email detail the history of drow, both within D&D and the actual Norse mythological origins and yeah, I can see now how drow cosplay = blackface. 4/

Against his suggestion, I'm not going to delete this thread of tweets. That'd be the coward's way out. I'll leave it intact as a reminder to myself that even this supposed non-racist can have blind spots.

Now back to cheering on people who pour red paint on statues of #SJAM.