aco175
Legend
I was trying to follow the logic you have, but this part seems to have thrown me. You seem to say that different species is not racist. I'm thinking that orcs are a different species than human and can be presented with different abilities. I can see that having different cultures of human be racist if they are presented to have Earth-like abilities. Mostly since the people giving the abilities have bias one way or the other. I'm not seeing that having orcs with +2 strength and -2 intelligence as racist unless I'm trying to make them like an Earth culture.Species are biologically different from each other, that is part of the definition. Depicting different species as different from each other is not racist.
Different cultures or ethnicities of humans are not meaningfully biologically different from each other. Depicting them as essentially different from each other is racist.
It's not that hard.
I do see where describing orcs as large, brutish, Africans is wrong. Same as if I described them as large, brutish, Scandinavians.