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 .

    • Anemasta [any]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Wait, would calling like French "barbarians" be racist? Do I have to be Italian for it to be racist?

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Who has commonly been called barbarians in the past? Generally the colonized

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          Anglo-Saxon people are barbarians. And yet, when I get angry I fight LESS effectively...