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🤡"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
"Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.🤷🏿♂️
"Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.🤷🏿♂️
"Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it in the screenshot.🤷🏿♂️
No, it doesn't matter if Tolkien was consciously or subconsciously racist.
He wrote this stuff, and so it should be obvious why the *white* right-wing gravitates towards it.
I mean, I don't think they're suggesting that the right-wing in say, Uganda were big Tolkien fans.🤷🏿♂️
The white is silent.
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Um...
🤡"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
"Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.🤷🏿♂️
"Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.🤷🏿♂️
"Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it in the screenshot.🤷🏿♂️
No, it doesn't matter if Tolkien was consciously or subconsciously racist.
He wrote this stuff, and so it should be obvious why the *white* right-wing gravitates towards it.
I mean, I don't think they're suggesting that the right-wing in say, Uganda were big Tolkien fans.🤷🏿♂️
The white is silent.
Tolkien grew up in South Africa, IIRC. I've read his works more than once, but have also come to acknowledge that they rest on a racist paradigm (among other things). It's probably more obvious to someone with the experiences of a black American or South African than it was to me when I was a white teenager from Scandinavia.
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Um...
🤡"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
"Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.🤷🏿♂️
"Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.🤷🏿♂️
"Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it in the screenshot.🤷🏿♂️
No, it doesn't matter if Tolkien was consciously or subconsciously racist.
He wrote this stuff, and so it should be obvious why the *white* right-wing gravitates towards it.
I mean, I don't think they're suggesting that the right-wing in say, Uganda were big Tolkien fans.🤷🏿♂️
The white is silent.
@mekkaokereke Yeah, it's very unsurprising they like it, but I'm still a bit amazed that they almost always name their ventures after the things that were clearly stated as evil or tools for evil.
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Tolkien grew up in South Africa, IIRC. I've read his works more than once, but have also come to acknowledge that they rest on a racist paradigm (among other things). It's probably more obvious to someone with the experiences of a black American or South African than it was to me when I was a white teenager from Scandinavia.
Checking; Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, then his family moved to Birmingham when he was three.
But that has little to do with @mekkaokereke 's point.
And I note how many people pointed out the racism Tolkien wrote into The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings at the time.
Even Tolkien acknowledged the problem. But he never did fix it.
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Um...
🤡"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
"Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.🤷🏿♂️
"Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.🤷🏿♂️
"Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it in the screenshot.🤷🏿♂️
No, it doesn't matter if Tolkien was consciously or subconsciously racist.
He wrote this stuff, and so it should be obvious why the *white* right-wing gravitates towards it.
I mean, I don't think they're suggesting that the right-wing in say, Uganda were big Tolkien fans.🤷🏿♂️
The white is silent.
@mekkaokereke Russian professor Kirill Yeskov wrote a bootleg LotR novel called "The Last Ringbearer" based on the premise that the story as told by LotR was propaganda and victor's history to justify "the West" conquering and subjugating "the East".
Yeskov calls out the racism in Tolkien's descriptions of other peoples... and then blows the game by making it all into a plot by the Elves who he makes up as thinly disguised fantasy Jews. 🤷♂️
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@mekkaokereke Russian professor Kirill Yeskov wrote a bootleg LotR novel called "The Last Ringbearer" based on the premise that the story as told by LotR was propaganda and victor's history to justify "the West" conquering and subjugating "the East".
Yeskov calls out the racism in Tolkien's descriptions of other peoples... and then blows the game by making it all into a plot by the Elves who he makes up as thinly disguised fantasy Jews. 🤷♂️
@naptowncode @mekkaokereke so basically the problem for him wasn't that it was racist, but it was racist against the “wrong” people or what?
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