This is exacerbated by the internet – before, you could publish your opus, sensitive or otherwise, and it would usually only be seen by a small group of people. Moral panic tended to focus on headliners, not third-tier solo acts.

Nowadays you can become famous just for being objectionable (as opposed to being objectionable and a good self promoter). The distance between ‘private’ and ‘global’ is much smaller.

I mention this because I think it’s totally appropriate for, say, a homogeneous group of white guys to experiment with gaming ideas to explore the effects of racism (for their own benefit: role-taking can be very informative).

It’s quite a different matter to present the resulting game as the definitive word, meant for consumption by everyone. But when my RPG network is this diffuse network of people I’ve mostly never met, it’s impossible to make sure the game always comes with its careful positioning.  (And, as you say, many games get reviews by people who’ve never read them, or who read them with a specific eye to finding objectionable content.)

A mentor of mine talked about bell-ringers and mud-slingers; if you stand up to proclaim just about anything, you’re going to get hit by something, but it beats sitting quietly if you’ve got something to shout about.