"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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Lol no it's not "completely different" at all it's a straight ripoff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PunishdCuckleon and
A straight ripoff *without* the minor mitigating details in the text of Tolkein orcs being specifically made by someone and interpretable as being eventually healed in the afterlife. The things that might point to good intentions if not for everything else.
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For the record, the backstory of them being corrupted Elves in The Silmarillion is not in Lord of the Rings itself, and The Silmarillion was never finished or published in his lifetime and it's unclear he really settled on that as canon
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