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corsairesix:

fallout-fallen-knight:

Just in case you were wondering: any piece of media that creates “good” and “bad” races (Skyrim, Fallout, LOTR, D&D, etc), is racist. Any piece of media that presents a single “good” member of an “evil” race, or in which the “evil” members of a race far outnumber the “good” members, is racist. Any piece of media that uses the fact that the evil races are permanently and unchangingly evil - even though there may or may not be exceptions! - to justify the genocide and extermination of that race, is racist.

This is not a Watsonian argument. The relative goodness or evilness of a good or evil race, in that piece of media, is irrelevant. The fact is, if you write a story that pits two different races against one another, and one is deemed good and one is deemed evil, that is racist.

It’s the biological essentialism

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    NGL, reading a deconstruction or perspective flip of the “good/evil race” thing would be entertaining, but, at the same...
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    This is why you need to gatekeep your hobbies folks. Anyway bout to flex my biological essentialism and chop up some...
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    Also like, they listed Skyrim as one of their examples but Skyrim by and large doesn’t have any evil races. What it does...
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    Okay, but FALLOUT though? Despite being the only one actually mentioned in OP's tags, it's the one listed series that...
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  18. fallout-fallen-knight posted this
    Just in case you were wondering: any piece of media that creates “good” and “bad” races (Skyrim, Fallout, LOTR, D&D,...