Rimworld: It was whites only at first, black only got added later and then integrated.
Personally I would not call any of the actions racist. The first one can be a legitimate use case with an incredibly poor choice of identifier (or incredibly good in at least one scenario). The mod being updated kind of argues for itself.
I think I will see on the side of caution and call it ignorance instead of malice.
The scenario is one where the n is completely harmless and the purported(on Reddit) word was nowhere in the mind when being typed.
Seems like the kind of thing GitHub should reach out to people about before acting on. At least where there is any (even farfetched) possible explanation.
I don't know how you would validate this but it doesn't seem unreasonable.
Later someone points out that there is another artist who paints mostly darker skin tones who also has the n identifier.
I can, immediately and without effort, see why this might be added. As a way to force representation in output. This is, to me, akin to paint which lets you pick a color (let's go with purple) for skin.
The Rimworld mod cited apparently comes with an "all white, all black, and all yellow" version. The only version mentioned by the angry folks is the white one.
Does anyone know the truth of the matter above?