I think it's really great that the tweet that started this orc racism discourse doesn't mention black people at all and so many people are saying "it tells on itself by mentioning black people" Y'all think that's a tell, maybe
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Replying to @PunishdCuckleon @MonkipiQuinn
do you think racism doesn't exist in fiction
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Replying to @PunishdCuckleon @MonkipiQuinn
"Racism exists in fiction" "complaining about a... fictional race" you confuse me
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Replying to @PunishdCuckleon @MonkipiQuinn
Your complaint is that racism can exist in fiction and that there's a fictional race that is being characterized through racism And people are wrong to... notice... that... because it's fiction...?
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Tolkien literally said that Orcs are a negative stereotype of Asians In a letter he wrote in 1958 he calls them "squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes; in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types"
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Note that he said this in response to a movie director specifically because he objected to the idea of making Orcs more alien (the director wanted them to be "beaked and feathered" bird people, like the Skeksis in The Dark Crystal ended up being)
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