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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 23

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦

    The original LotR is in fact "diverse" but in a reactionary way ("swarthy" and orientalist villains, "fair" heroes). It's okay to tell the story without this antiquated racial coding.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1496418176594485252 …

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    1/Everyone talks about diverse casting in shows like Witcher, Wheel of Time, LotR, etc. like it's all because of wokeness. But I think the biggest factor is that producers want to show audiences a world where the people look like the people those audiences are used to seeing.
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 23

        It's one thing to treat the Bible or Koran as sacred, unalterably texts. But imagine applying that logic to kids' books, toy lines, and Marvel comics. My god.

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      1. Cal‏ @calum_darroch Feb 23
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        Orientalist villains? The only non-Western (in the sense of the geography of Middle Earth) characters are the Easterlings who are a footnote - a vassal state under Sauron. All of the important and noteworthy villains in the stories are Westerners themselves.

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      1. George Michael Petty‏ @GMichaelPetty Feb 23
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        Is this comment based on one war elephant?

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      1. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion Feb 23
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        Jeet you're still in the doghouse for flirting with Putinism... 😠

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      1. Phil Stewart‏ @Retinalia Feb 23
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        That was one of the biggest disappointments of the last book especially for me. From a revisionist point of view I wanted so much to see the dragooned armies from the south or whatever to at least have some ideas beyond serving Sauron. Revolutionary consciousness - anything.

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      1. Ben Feinberg‏ @boniskey Feb 23
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        In LOTR, race and bloodline determine everything. Even as a kid, I noticed this, and saw the story casually endorsed orc/goblin genocide and erased their point of view. My goal was to rewrite the story from an average, working class orc perspective. This led me to anthropology.

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      1. fantic‏ @fantic7 Feb 23
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        if they want 'inclusion' then make an original story and movie, don't 'tack on' classics for easy money. is it lack of originality and imagination? why bother those classics, at all? 'black panther' was quite a success, no?

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