Now you’re trying to be a mind reader. I watched that interview, and wotc has been very consistent in wanting to remove certain voices and replace them with new ones. So it very consistent with actions and statements from wotc in the past. It’s not out of context or misconstrued he was trying to buy brownie points for its his interviewer and even his interviewer looked at him like “what the naughty word”The statement was explicitly about the value of having diverse voices and backgrounds in the creation of games, rather than what, historically, has been creators who have been almost universally White, straight, Christian and Midwestern. It was not about removing those voices from game design, but adding more voices to the mix.
When intentionally taken out of context by people wanting to walk viewers towards extremist views, it sure is.