Jim C Hines on Fantasy Dwarves and real Little People

The author and blogger who has often used his privileged perspective to productively rant about rape targets an arrow at a common fantasy trope:

begin quote  From Chapter Two [D&D Rule Book 3.5]: Races—“[T]he promise of power and profit brings together people of all the common races: “humans, dwarves, elves, gnomes, half-elves, half-orcs, and halflings.”

Um… call me crazy, but I thought dwarfs—little people—were human. quote ends