cookingwithroxy: hominishostilis-enhanced:thriftlessvoyage:friendly-neighborhood-patriarch: generall
cookingwithroxy: hominishostilis-enhanced:thriftlessvoyage:friendly-neighborhood-patriarch: generallemarc:asceticninja:shittymoviedetails: The racist stereotypes littered throughout the Harry Potter franchise including the grotesquely anti-semitic goblin’s foreshadowed JK. Rowling’s later bigotry on twitter Everything keeps falling into place and I wish the fuck it wouldn’t leftists are always the evil they claim to oppose Goblins in Harry potter literally look like racist caricatures of Jewish people.And the denial of orcs is a self report if I ever heard one, there was an entire Will Smith movie about the parallels between how Society sees orks & Brown people.Are you people fucking stupid? Or just so racist you don’t want to acknowledge that fantasy races may be based off how an author views other races?I gotta say that racists like y'all have made this a difficult subject to search clogging up the discourse with panicked defenses of the blatantly obvious. …Anyway Learn some new phrase besides “self report” because it’s not doing you any favors, you’re clearly a brain rotted retard if you think Orcs are black people because you watched Bright once, idiot. There were black people IN the movie. There are black people IN Tolkien’s books. Orcs are not an allegory for black people, they’re an allegory for war and the industrial revolution. You’re just out there telling all on yourself every time you see a savage monster and your first thought is “BLACK PEOPLE!!”, it’s funny as fuck. “Waaaaaah if you don’t see black people hiding behind every fantasy monster like me then you’re a racist!!”, shuuuuut the fuck up. Maybe if you were smarter you’d get that, and you wouldn’t think equally stupid YouTube videos by equally stupid pundits “prove” your case ‘The orcs in Bright are Black people! That’s why they listen to death metal and are ostracized for the fact that they were forced into warfare under an evil empire!’Like.Do you not get that there can be multiple people living under oppression and part of the goddamn thing was to show how in a society that the norms we LIVE IN do not directly translate? Like, you were supposed to look at Will Smith, the RACIST COP, and go ‘hey, he can be racist, despite being black, I should look beyond color to see the issues here.’But these idiots literally cannot do anything BUT go 'Oh hey here’s an oppressed minority in fiction, I’m going to FORCE THEM TO FIT MY OWN BIASED PERCEPTIONS.’ Also Bright was just not a super greatly written movie because the 'racism’ against orcs was because of how they had sided with The Dark Lord last time he tried to take over the world. Instead of, ya'know, because of their race. Honestly a better syllogism might be “Bright’s orcs represent nazis or communists” in that they are hated because they were on the 'wrong’/losing side of the last world war. Except even that doesn’t work because they are a species and not an ideology and even in the movie there’s a legendary orc who was responsible for defeating the Dark Lord. So it’d be like hating anyone who’s white because white people supported Hitler, while ignoring that that Winston Churchill was also white and Hitler couldn’t have been defeated without him because of magic reasons…Also like only 1% of humans can use magic, while like 0% of orcs can, and more like 20% of elfs what is maybe a really bad 1%-er metaphor? I mean the elfs are the rich super-capitalists and only 1 in 1000 humans can use magic wands without exploding…Like if you wanna try and make a point, why the fuck would you try and do it with a movie that doesn’t know whether it’s coming or going? -- source link
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