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"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!""Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.
️"Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.
️"Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it in the screenshot.
️No, it doesn't matter if Tolkien was consciously or subconsciously racist.
He wrote this stuff, and so it should be obvious why the *white* right-wing gravitates towards it.
I mean, I don't think they're suggesting that the right-wing in say, Uganda were big Tolkien fans.
️The white is silent.
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"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!""Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.
️"Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.
️"Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it in the screenshot.
️No, it doesn't matter if Tolkien was consciously or subconsciously racist.
He wrote this stuff, and so it should be obvious why the *white* right-wing gravitates towards it.
I mean, I don't think they're suggesting that the right-wing in say, Uganda were big Tolkien fans.
️The white is silent.
There has been a microcosm of that debate in #ttrpg / #dnd spaces. A lot of gamers want to move away from the "Designated Bad Guy Races" and portray, say, orcs as people like everyone else.
And predictably, there is a fierce backlash against this from other gamers who claim that "I don't want politics in my gaming!" Which, of course, means that they are comfortable with the politics as they are, and don't want to think about them.
(They also don't want to acknowledge that Gary Gygax, one of the founders of the hobby, was a massive racist and misogynist who baked his assumptions into the game, but that's another story...)
Dungeons & Dragons Is Shedding ‘Race’ in Gaming. Other Games, and Gamers, Should Follow
The nerd culture powerhouse is rebranding its elves, dwarfs and orcs, previously referred to as races, and moving towards use of the term species
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
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There has been a microcosm of that debate in #ttrpg / #dnd spaces. A lot of gamers want to move away from the "Designated Bad Guy Races" and portray, say, orcs as people like everyone else.
And predictably, there is a fierce backlash against this from other gamers who claim that "I don't want politics in my gaming!" Which, of course, means that they are comfortable with the politics as they are, and don't want to think about them.
(They also don't want to acknowledge that Gary Gygax, one of the founders of the hobby, was a massive racist and misogynist who baked his assumptions into the game, but that's another story...)
Dungeons & Dragons Is Shedding ‘Race’ in Gaming. Other Games, and Gamers, Should Follow
The nerd culture powerhouse is rebranding its elves, dwarfs and orcs, previously referred to as races, and moving towards use of the term species
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
I ran face-first into this last year, while trying to run a playtest. I used generic evil goblins as loot pinatas and received a 3 hour lecture on my racism. For a game designer who is not so plugged in, what's a good loot pinata in 2026?
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I ran face-first into this last year, while trying to run a playtest. I used generic evil goblins as loot pinatas and received a 3 hour lecture on my racism. For a game designer who is not so plugged in, what's a good loot pinata in 2026?
Evil cultists are good if you want to use sapient opponents, since they _choose_ to be evil rather than be "designated evil" by "civilized people".
