NP "racist" Tolkien?

[jbor]

on 26/12/02 6:57 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> Well, duh, "Western" (European, North American,
> North Atlantic) mythography/folklore/what have you
> generally inscribes that binary--generally inscribes
> binaries, for that matter ....--White/black.  And this
> is not without real effects, or real causes. But even
> as Tolkien (in a continuum of authors) reinscribes it,
> doesn't mean one has to throw him out with his
> racially-polarized legacy (in either direction).

And another thing. I don't get this part of the argument that says that even
though _TLOTR_ is "racist", insidiously evoking and promoting "racist"
values or whatever, that that doesn't really matter anyway, you can still be
a fan, and it's quite OK to let the kiddies along to see it and not worry
that they are going to absorb (i.e., that "*Rezeptionsaesthetik*" thang) all
this negative ideology. As if transmitting these allegedly "racist" values
and attitudes to impressionable young people isn't something which is
important enough to care about?

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