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EvArnTheWriter
Orcs as written traditionally, are racist tropes. D&D as a game, suffers from bio-essentialism and racism. Orcs aren't even the only example. Half-races, the fact that entire peoples are treated
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Jared Rascher (He/Him)
WhatDoIKnowJR
Tolkien's orcs had racist elements built in-he compares them to an actual real world group of people. That said, Tolkien's racism is largely a "I'm trying to be open minded,
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SB
SBeep_
orc ladies for orc day glad like these orcs! now you all should go and read up and absorb takes from creators of colour like @/Lammergeared on why its important
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Bowen the Bear
BowenTheBear
#DnD #UnpopularOpinion: orcs/drow/goblins being prone to evil doesn't have to be inherently racist. Wait don't go! Let me explain. Race as in "the human race" is perhaps ill-fitting in modern
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catherine liu
bureaucatliu
On the rejection of Freud, love of Marx in young people interested in Critical Theory: (@anniemcclanahan actually had a real analysis, mine is pure fantasy fiction) -- Psychoanalysis is like
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Zack Stentz
MuseZack
The greatest Lord of the Rings orcs. 1: "Meat's back on the menu" Uruk Hai. 2: Olympic torch runner Uruk Hai. 3: Sloth from Goonies general. 4: "Took a little
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James Introcaso
JamesIntrocaso
The current and past ideas and language surrounding orcs, tieflings, and a bunch of other sapient beings is problematic in D&D and other RPGs. If your response to that is,
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Brandon Leon-Gambetta 🎃
bleongambetta
If you think that there is nothing wrong with the way that @Wizards continues to reinforce racist shit in D&D, please go ahead and block me now. I have no
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Chris S. Sims
ChrisSSims
It's not just orcs. Monolithic culture is boring, lazy world-building. Enforcing a quality such as evil on an entire species, even if supernaturally aligned, is boring. With beings who are
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All Dead Generations
DistemperedGus
So an interesting thing in the "D&D Orcs are racist" --which is correct -- is it's relation to the Satanic Panic of the 80's and through that White US
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Claudio Pozas has a Patreon! 🇧🇷 #EleNão
claudiopozas
There's been a lot of talk today on fantasy races and how to avoid perpetuating real-world racist stereotypes. It is hard to cover such a complex subject on a few
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Kazumi Chin
kazumiochin
There’s a bit of truth to this troll post. My relevant training here is in cultural studies, which is based in a Marxist understanding of cultural changes during the 1950s
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angrynerdgirl
Miss_Jess03
So we're talking about orcs, huh? I love orcs. Orcs also have a really rough history. The language used to describe them is very similar to the language used to
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Mooshberry
There IS a happy middle ground between textual purists and interpretives. Racial Personality Traits as Cultural Norms, not inherent but learned. A human raised by elves is going to act
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Jeremy Whitley
jrome58
Boy, when I logged into twitter today, I did not expect to see a bunch of uninformed trolls talking about orcs and how the concept of orcs is not problematic.Here's
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Arcanist Press
ArcanistPress
So @Wizards_DnD has a #DnD book coming out in Nov (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything) that allows players to change their racial traits. Great!We hope it addresses the essentialism present in
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