Was rewatching the Hobbit movies this weekend and struck by how orcs are basically just a generic outgroup. Obviously disgusting, wrong, enemy, to be killed. The next time you complain about any -ives -isms or -ists, consider whether you want to be casting real people as orcs.
"And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?”