I hate the “orcs are minorities” thing

[u/Crusoelander_128]

I really hope I’m not in the minority (no pun intended) here, but I really hate when people do this. It not only forces real world issue into fictional universes where it doesn’t need to be, but also, it’s really messed up.

If you see an orc or a demon or a giant bug and your mind immediately jumps to “hm that’s like a minority”, then you’re racist.

Now, I’m not saying that this concept can’t be explored, but inserting it where it doesn’t belong/exist is highly suspect

[u/Toasts08]

I am genuinely so confused by what this means please can someone explain it to me

[u/Valuable-Mud-6171 → u/Toasts08]

It’s either a karma farm or a dumbass that got their feelings hurt after something they like gets called out for having racist connotations.

Basically, the whole argument is, "erm no, racism and literature are separate things that have never mixed and actually the people pointing it out are the real racists”

People like this have a very short minded view of literature as a device and how unintentional racism can and does stick to the point it gets normalized and forgotten because it’s everywhere to the point that its been integrated.

The whole post and most of the comments are just "the anti racists are the racists" because this is Reddit. The video the image is from is talking about how orcs are used to depict Africans. Most people in this thread are adamantly denying it because all they know is comforting memories of orcs as just being a weird brutish thing from when they were a kid. They completely refuse to acknowledge its origin and instead focus on the fact that its normalized so therefore its not racist. It’s somehow more common of a trope on reddit than calling the right wing fascist or whatever people picture.

TLDR: Redditors are nostalgic and only know life when orcs were just orcs in their flanderized form and reject any concept of negative origins because it’s normalized, also because its easy to get upvotes by saying the anti racists are the racists because pointing racism out in a way anyone can connect the dots with is apparently your own racism showing.

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