Am I vision impaired or are there more KKK robes than the pointy-hat ones? I will agree there are some spooky robed folks in the art but I don't see Klansmen.

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Watch Song of the South. Yeah the song “Zipadee-do-dah...my oh my what a wonderful day” is kinda catchy, but we remind ourselves not to sing that b/c that movie is racist. Michael Jackson has some catchy songs too, but you really shouldn’t be playing those in public either - certainly not around children.

Magic’s age recommendation isn’t 18+, it takes time for children to develop complex [adult] views. Some card names and/or art is inappropriate for minors, and it doesn’t look great for the game when a parent sees their kid playing with a card whose art features Klansmen or the title Disruptive Student with a clearly racist caricature.

While banning Cleanse in a fantasy setting with Paladins is kind of a stretch, the embarrassing thing here is the timing coinciding with the mass BLM protests. The timing puts this somewhere between cowardly and insincere, regardless it’s long overdue.
I probably shouldn't blast the entirety of Enter the Wu-Tang for the whole neighborhood to hear eithet, but in my own home I can appreciate it without offending bystanders (I have been meaning to see Song of the South for a while, just to see what all the fuss is about. I guess it makes for an interesting historical footnote, "the movie Disney is so ashamed of it will never be released again" or something like that). But the "publicness" of MtG does make this more dicey. Magic isn't a solo activity. I get to make someone sit there as I show them why my pictures of funny wizards are better than theirs. And then you have so many people of different ideologies, views, and lived experiences working on your art.

I don't want to be the one to make this comparison but I feel like it's gonna happen at some point. Haven't we been here before? Removing certain imagery and iconography from the game because it was deemed offensive.