Hussar
Legend
But, therein lies the biggest problem. Ok, sure, orcs are meant to be the most outright evil faction. Fair enough. That's not really an issue. The issue is that the language used to describe the "most evil faction" is very, very close (as in often word for word identical) as the language used to describe black people up into the twentieth century.Taking this back to D&D - Orcs and other evil races are othered in D&D - but for good reason, they are meant to represent some of the most outright evil factions of D&D
Orcs are evil isn't really a problem. Lots of things in D&D are evil. We don't worry that red dragons are evil after all.
Orcs are evil because they are just like black people (or at least, that's the language that was very often being used) is a problem.
Drow are evil is perfectly fine.
Drow are evil because they are matriarchal, hate men and mirror stereotypes of feminism as well as being literally white people colored black for their sins, is a problem.
The difficulty in these conversations is that people tend to focus on very narrow elements and not the bigger picture. Oh, well, it's okay because this part is okay doesn't really solve anything. And the conversations go round and round in circles because people refuse to accept the bigger picture.
((Note, @FrogReaver - I am not pointing at you for any of this. I'm using your comment as a jumping off point. I just reread what I wrote and it sounds accusatory and that is totally not what I'm going for here.))