# D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer))

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**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-got-woke-and-thats-good-because-you-should-have-all-been-playing-that-way-or-not-if-you-didnt-prefer/933114 "2021-02-17T10:36:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-got-woke-and-thats-good-because-you-should-have-all-been-playing-that-way-or-not-if-you-didnt-prefer/933114/803 "2022-10-18T18:36:10Z")

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All the excitement about the Hadozee being racist as they are monkeys (and monkeys have been used by bigots as a racist thing in the past) and capering like Minstrels- I finally read the actual new WotC book where that illustration was from. Hadozee are descended from flying squirrels, not monkeys. They are rodents, not primates.

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