I think this issue is somewhat within my lane since the original Tolkien Orcs were specifically a racist caricature of Asians And my thing is like, what's done is done and it's too late to "cancel Orcs" completely from our pop culture, but I'm allowed to make be snarky about ithttps://twitter.com/HoldenShearer/status/1254414174484140034 …
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I remember the day it dawned on me that in Middle Earth all the bad guys were from the south and the east and were swarthy or sallow and all the good guys were from the north and the west and were fair. It made me so sad; I'd loved that book.
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Then I realized C.S. Lewis was blatantly hating on Arabs in The Horse and His Boy and got fully depressed.
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really loved Tolkien, but fuck yeah, he is so not unproblematic gimme terry pratchett any day...
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