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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Apr 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Holden Shearer

      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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      Holden Shearer @HoldenShearer
      I see the new D&D fans are having their first brush-up against the 30+ year old WELL-KNOWN history of orcs as deeply problematic racist stand-ins, and it's not going well.
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Apr 2020

      And I keep saying the worst part is that Tolkien Half-Orcs aren't "speciesism" against, like, video game grunts that you shoot for the sake of cool action sequences Like it's actual literal racism, analogous to real world racism Normal people who live in town with evil blood

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    3. Jack Christmas‏ @jackchristmas1 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Even Tolkien himself expressed regret that he made an inherently evil race of people, so it's especially foolish to deny it. It's not to his credit that he didn't ever make "trying at least a little to make orcs less racist" a priority when writing The Silmarillion, but still.

      2 replies 3 retweets 16 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @jackchristmas1

      I keep saying that making the Orcs bird-people (or animal-people) was an out that that filmmaker guy gave him to make it come off as less oof Like that was an out he was trying to give himself, saying Orcs were engineered by Morgoth from animals

      1 reply 2 retweets 14 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @jackchristmas1

      But he got MAD about that He straight up SAID "No, that's not what I imagined, the Orcs in my head specifically look like a caricature of Asian humans"

      2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @jackchristmas1

      Somehow, no matter what the explanation was -- the Silmarillion saying they were mutant Elves, the other stories saying Morgoth grew them from slime or engineered them from animals Dr. Moreau style, the "they're all very minor Maiar demons" theory -- they had to look Asian

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    7. cgt‏ @cgtzeno 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      What did Tolkien say about his mental view of the elves? They also can be considered Asian (i.e., not Nordic) it seems to me (?)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @cgtzeno

      No not really He physically describes Elves as "fair" and Orcs as "dark" and it's pretty clear that at least sometimes he was literally referring to skin color

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @cgtzeno

          Galadriel is explicitly blonde-haired and in the Silmarillion the first and "fairest" generation of Elves (the Vanyar) are all said to be blonde Arwen is dark-haired but she's "grey-eyed"

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