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> Orc (Cyrillic: орк, romanised: ork), plural orcs (Russian and Ukrainian: орки), is a pejorative commonly used by many Ukrainians to refer to a Russian soldier
by 05 2y ago
> Orc (Cyrillic: орк, romanised: ork), plural orcs (Russian and Ukrainian: орки), is a pejorative commonly used by many Ukrainians to refer to a Russian soldier participating in the Russian-Ukrainian War and Russian citizens who support the aggression of Russia against Ukraine.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(slang) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(slang)
- tetromino_ 2y agoLet's call a spade a spade. "Orc" is a dehumanizing term that the Ukrainian military propaganda invented and popularized to make it psychologically easier for their soldiers to shoot at Russians. Because they are not dropping a grenade from a drone on a human, they are just dropping a grenade on an orc, on a monster from a video game. For Americans in the audience, "Orc" belongs to the same category as "Jap", "Gook", "Sandn**r", and all similar dehumanizing terms that American soldiers have used to make it psychologically easier to shoot and bomb their enemies.
- NotYourLawyer 2y ago[flagged]
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoNo. No, it's not. Dehumanizing others costs you part of your humanity. It puts you on the path toward becoming a monster. Yeah, it's only one step on that path, but the better answer is, don't start down that path. Some people behave like monsters. You may have to kill them. But they're still people, and you still have to not dehumanize them, lest you dehumanize yourself.
- Dalewyn 2y agoFor those who need actual moments from history to understand this, here's some reading material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanes... In particular: >We learned about savagery from the Japanese ... But those sixteen-to-nineteen-year old kids we had on the Canal were fast learners ... At daybreak, a couple of our kids, bearded, dirty, skinny from hunger, slightly wounded by bayonets, clothes worn and torn, wack off three Jap heads and jam them on poles facing the "Jap side" of the river ... The colonel sees Jap heads on the poles and says, "Jesus men, what are you doing? You're acting like animals." A dirty, stinking young kid says, "That's right Colonel, we are animals. We live like animals, we eat and are treated like animals—what the fuck do you expect?"
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoI’ve seen videos of russian soldiers invading Ukraine, killing soldiers and civilians, taking prisoners, and sometimes beheading or castrating prisoners while they’re still alive. Where is the human part of taking a knife to a man’s genitalia after you decide to invade his country? If russians don’t want to die, they can just go home.
- Dalewyn 2y agoIf you peer down into the abyss, the abyss will look back up at you.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoCalling russian soldiers “Orcs” when they invade, rape, kill, and torture, is a degree of moral decay I’m willing to accept.
- NotYourLawyer 2y ago[flagged]
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoDehumanizing them is not the same as "calling them names". It's denying that they are human. And yes, it's too far.
- NotYourLawyer 2y ago[flagged]
- gruez 2y agoKilling them is required for self-defense. What's the point of dehumanizing them? Boosting soldier morale? Would it be okay to call Japanese and Germans slurs in WW2 for the same reason? Do the ends justify the means?
- NotYourLawyer 2y ago[flagged]
- gruez 2y ago[flagged]
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