Originally Posted by The_Red_Queen
Though fortunately we don’t need to agree, and this isn’t the place to debate it!

No we don't - we can agree that racism is bad. I think there is value understanding the distinction between the concepts racism / prejudice / discrimination so we can better identify what is and is not racism,

But it does come up on DnD forums because those concepts are influencing 6e and not in a good way - I don't it's bad to have an inherently evil species. In fact I think that's preferable to a culturally evil population and I think that WotC is, tragically, going in a direction that will actually encourage prejudicial, colonial thinking and that's a bad thing.