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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 9286663" data-attributes="member: 7034710">okay but like, you recognise that the two situations aren't the same thing right? yes it was absolutely terrible that those peoples were treated as lesser or other, and the choice to use 'race' to describe the fantasy species was wildly inaccurate and has been used to draw unfortunate comparisons, but it is not 'bad science' to say that these different creatures with genuinely different biological makeups who are all presented as sapient can actually have differently developed brains and bodies and be genuinely more adept in different areas at certain types of learning or thinking or doing.it is quite possible for us to see that different creatures can have differently developed brains suited for different ways of thinking, even if the species we learn that from are not as inteligent as humans are.those historical peoples were all humans, regardless of what they were called or the ways they were treated, and these species are all different from humans, regardless of how we refer to them, we can gladly move away from the 'all orcs are savage barbarians' mentality while still recognising that they could be built differently in ways that makes them better or worse at certain things in comparison to other species who are also built differently in their own ways.</blockquote>