When I see that listed in content, its a sign of censorship.
Sensitivity readers are a far cry from censorship. They are what amounts to a very specific kind of editing pass. WotC has voluntarily hired people to perform the read and will still be the ones deciding if they will take the suggestions made by those readers. If it were censorship, some outside group would assign such a reader to WotC, and WotC would have no choice but to use them. And then, WotC would have to do what they say. It's a very big difference.
Also, as far as slavery, from the little snippet in the story, it seems like slavery is very much alive, and just kind of hiding behind some corporate (or maybe sorcerer king) doublespeak. The article has Bilsland saying that you don't have to have slavery to have oppression. Then he goes on to describe one of the city states. And, I guess, the idea is it's meant to be an example of a place oppresses without slavery. However, still uses forced labor and also gets people to "voluntarily give up their freedom." To me, there is precious little difference between that description and slavery (or at least indentured servitude), but there's not really a lot to go on from the article.
So, as I said in my first post, I'm going to reserve judgment until I actually read some reviews, and then, most likely, see the book for myself. I've liked Dark Sun since the first time it came out, and I'm definitely going to want to see what they do with it this time around.
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Sensitivity readers are a far cry from censorship. They are what amounts to a very specific kind of editing pass. WotC has voluntarily hired people to perform the read and will still be the ones deciding if they will take the suggestions made by those readers. If it were censorship, some outside group would assign such a reader to WotC, and WotC would have no choice but to use them. And then, WotC would have to do what they say. It's a very big difference.
Also, as far as slavery, from the little snippet in the story, it seems like slavery is very much alive, and just kind of hiding behind some corporate (or maybe sorcerer king) doublespeak. The article has Bilsland saying that you don't have to have slavery to have oppression. Then he goes on to describe one of the city states. And, I guess, the idea is it's meant to be an example of a place oppresses without slavery. However, still uses forced labor and also gets people to "voluntarily give up their freedom." To me, there is precious little difference between that description and slavery (or at least indentured servitude), but there's not really a lot to go on from the article.
So, as I said in my first post, I'm going to reserve judgment until I actually read some reviews, and then, most likely, see the book for myself. I've liked Dark Sun since the first time it came out, and I'm definitely going to want to see what they do with it this time around.