• JamesConnolly [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    No it’s not. This is from Ukraine’s defense minster. He knows what he is doing and if he doesn’t, then he should be shot.

    Orcs in LOTR are based on that trope anyway.

    • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yes, he knows what he is doing. LOTR has a particular spot in Eastern European culture, that, as I said, in the West is fulfilled by say Harry Potter.

      Also, I'm afraid orcs are not explicitly based on that thrope, and if anything are more often presented as a classist caricature of British working class. If any racism is present it is not by explicit design of Tolkien.

      • JamesConnolly [he/him]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        ok debate nerd. I’m off to go shoot some British soldiers in the face

        :horsepoo-theory:

        Disengaging, don’t reply to me.