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I don't want to cause a huge derailing clusterfuck with this question but I was just thinking a bit about this subject earlier and wanted to get some opinions. The whole thing with viewing/substituting fantasy species as stand ins for actual real world human races seems a bit of a stretch. It's pretty easy to see how you can connect racial stereotypes with a traditional 'bad guy' species in fantasy since those stereotypes contain nothing but extremely negative traits, but since those stereotypes themselves have no basis in reality then it becomes this weird double abstract thing that I'm not even sure how to properly describe. 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. Does this make any sense?
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