Bob Quixote posted:

I mean, if someone were to describe orcs to a person who had never heard of the standard fantasy setting and that person said "They sound just like blacks/latinos/etc." then that persons probably already an irredeemable piece of poo poo anyway, but most people would probably just think "They sound like the monsters you get in fairytales" and would never make the racial stereotype connection unless it was pointed out to them because they don't already think of other human beings in terms of broad negative untrue groups of traits.