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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7726994" data-attributes="member: 6683613">Orcs are inhuman, ugly, and eat people.Real-world non-white humans are not inhuman, not ugly, and don't eat people.I'm afraid I don't see the resemblance you find &quot;problematic&quot;.I do see the resemblance between orcs and past and present racist caricatures of non-white humans. But the problem with those caricatures is precisely that they're distorting the images of these humans to make them look like horrifying fantasy monsters. To interpret portrayals of actual horrifying fantasy monsters as reflecting on these humans seems to be running the logic bass-ackwards.If I don't like Bob, maybe I draw a caricature of him with horns and a goatee to make him look like the Devil.But it wouldn't make any sense to interpret other pictures of the Devil as portrayals of Bob.And if you think Bob is a good guy, you're probably not going to say, &quot;Hey, maybe the Devil is a good guy, and therefore Bob is a good guy!&quot; You're going to say, &quot;Hey, don't draw Bob looking like the Devil!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 7726994, member: 6683613"] Orcs are inhuman, ugly, and eat people. Real-world non-white humans are [I]not[/I] inhuman, [I]not[/I] ugly, and [I]don't[/I] eat people. I'm afraid I don't see the resemblance you find "problematic". I do see the resemblance between orcs and [I]past and present racist caricatures[/I] of non-white humans. But the problem with those caricatures is precisely that they're distorting the images of these humans to make them look like horrifying fantasy monsters. To interpret portrayals of actual horrifying fantasy monsters as reflecting on these humans seems to be running the logic bass-ackwards. If I don't like Bob, maybe I draw a caricature of him with horns and a goatee to make him look like the Devil. But it wouldn't make any sense to interpret other pictures of the Devil as portrayals of Bob. And if you think Bob is a good guy, you're probably not going to say, "Hey, maybe the Devil is a good guy, and therefore Bob is a good guy!" You're going to say, "Hey, don't draw Bob looking like the Devil!" [/QUOTE]

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