NP "racist" Tolkien?
Dave Monroe
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 28 16:01:37 CST 2002
Who needs to give "it" a rest again? Sheesh ...
--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Anyone can use a search engine.
But it's HOW you use it ...
> Point is, it's possible to read the text as
> not "reproducing racisms"
Happens every day ...
> which is just a euphemistic way of saying that the
> text is racist
Unthinkingly, unconsciously, undamningly so, which is
why I make the distinction ...
> which is what most of the links you've posted do
> actually say
No, most are pretty forgiving to outright defensive
about it. A couple report on Shapiro, but don't
necessarily take up his case. Me, I think I'm largely
with Moorcock on this one, though he's had his own
problems in this regard. But he's been through it,
and knows well the genre and its pitfalls ...
> But if you want to see those orcs and trolls as
> "Africans"
Not only do I not want to, I don't. I read them as
being described in terms and situations and
oppositions reminiscent of those often used to
describe, in particular, Africans and Asians in more
clearly racially problematic literature/s ...
> that's your own business
Neither "my own" nor a "business," but ...
> I think it's "reproducing racism" to do that, but
> don't let that stop you
Well, considering I haven't started doing anything you
mention ... no, yet another caricature, steretype,
what have you, of me that you're sadly attempting to
promulgate of me here. Reproducing anti-Davism,
though it's a prejudice all yr own ...
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