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If you could replace the fantasy race with a real-world race and not have to change any other thing, it's probably never going to be received well by modern soc
by falcolas 4y ago
If you could replace the fantasy race with a real-world race and not have to change any other thing, it's probably never going to be received well by modern society.
With one notable exception: if it's merely the starting point of a campaign to enact major change (perhaps also if used as a vehicle to display how bad the system really is).
- Brigand 4y agoYou could replace the orcs in lotr with the germans, and their leader as sauron. Does that make lotr racist? I don’t think so.
- falcolas 4y agoDo a quick google search for LOTR and racism, and you'll find for yourself that the line isn't quite so clear. That said, I"m fairly sure you'd have to change a number of things to make "goblins/orcs" match up with real world Germans (such as the cannibalism) But it's been some years since I read LOTR.