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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xeviat" data-source="post: 8284778" data-attributes="member: 57494">I was making broad examples without getting into specifics so the specific examples couldn't get taken apart for being bad (like "Bright"). WoW's trolls are a mishmash of cultures and religions that I'm not even going to try to name because I know I'm going to get them confused for one another, for instance. The Tauren are very much inspired by native americans, down to the accents on a lot of the characters. Whether these were good or bad depictions is up for debate, but at least WoW depicts them as people with complex cultures and histories and free will and variety.Othering humanoid fantasy races like classical fantasy tended to do echos the way dominant races and cultures demonize and other different races and cultures. It's been a thing people have complained about for a long time. It's obviously offensive when it is done to human characters of different races than the dominant one (the mysterious orient, the noble savage). Couching it under different fantasy races or sci-fi species is just a cover for the same thing, and when it's done hamfistedly it's very othering.</blockquote>