As a result of WotC's OGL fuckery, Drow have been permanently deleted from the Pathfinder setting (to the extent of a full retcon of all existing material). But the comments harp endlessly on the "problematic" elements of the material, like slavery and their divinely-engineered BDSM society.

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I've played the game, off and on across various editions, since the late '90's. I have never in all of that time equated dark elves (or orcs) with a real-world race and (as far as I know) neither has anyone I've played with. None of us ever treated slavery (or other nasty things) in the game as anything other than evils to be fought against. And we were all quite capable of knowing and understanding that how dark elves acted was not actually normal in any way, and definitely not something to admire (even if the women did wear some really nice outfits in the artwork :p).

That thread has one comment--from a person who, going by their other comments, apparently has a serious investment in proving why removing dark elves is actually a good thing aside from OGL issues--about how people play the game to escape real-world problems. That comment then goes on to list a bunch of real-world reasons why dark elves are bad. And, as far as I can tell, not even a flicker of awareness over how applying those real-world reasons to fantasy material only serves to bring those very same real-world problems into the game anyway.