Is it? I dunno, honestly. Obviously it's dehumanizing, but is it actually racist? I don't think this counts as a racial slur, it doesn't have the history, but I also don't know enough orc lore to argue. Seems more like a nerdy version of calling people barbarians...
Either way as a Russian I've waited long enough for us to get our own n-word analogue that only we get to say.
The tweet .
Is it racist to call Jewish people goblins? Yes, you're using language to take away their humanity, depict them as evil, and justify their death or potential extermination, as they are now just monsters to be destroyed.
Is it racist to call the English "ghouls" while depicting them as evil?
No, because it has never been used in conjunction with a call to murder them, or repeated oppression of them socially or economically.
:I-was-saying:
Sorry to get real on the internet for a second, but do you genuinely want concentration camps set up for the English? A book burning of their literature? To check the papers of anyone who looks Anglo? Men, women, and children slaughtered by the millions? I really, really don't think you do. Even if you did, do you have the ability to enact that, or are you looking to? Is there a history of people who want that? That's why English ghoul isn't a slur.
Apologies, it was a joke. I agree with you.
Sorry if I went on the offensive there, I have gotten a bit tired of people saying "no I'm actually for genocide" on this site in the middle of a serious discussion.
In the same way "mayo" is racist I'd say, but it's acceptable bc of the centuries of geopolitical supremacy by English ghouls. In the context of calling Russians *rcs, it's way less acceptable imo (disclaimer: i am a politically illiterate westerner)
Edit: i also don't think the use of "mayo" against whites is racist for the same reasons it's ok to call the British ghouls, plus it's fucking hilarious
I guess it's fair to say there have been a couple centuries of Russian geopolitical supremacy in the region.
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