Kindly explain how and why it's weird, beyond the author obsessing with what the artists race is.

What I'm hearing as a Chinese is, I can't use my own appearance because that would be 'racist' somehow. Tell you what, THAT'S the most racist thing I've heard this month.

This isn’t a hill you need to die on

I'm being told I no longer have rights to my own appearance. Fuck that bullshit.