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Orcs, Britons, and the Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built for Racial Terror

Orcs, Britons, and the Martial Race Myth, Part II: They're Not Human


Creative Interventions: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence
Gotta be honest, I only got partway through this, it's a bit repetitive and long winded. Also the attempt at trans inclusion is patchy. But the part I read was really thought provoking and avoided some of the major pitfalls I've seen in other similar toolkits.

And now some things I already posted to tumblr:

A discussion of Camp Which I still don't get, tbh.

mistakes don’t mean you deserve to suffer

The key to co-liberation is that it requires a commitment to and a belief in mutual benefit

the 14 properties of “ur-fascism”

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Thank you for the orcs articles! I found them really interesting and a great counterpoint to that irritating debate where one side says, Tolkien was racist because he used darkness as a metaphor for evil, and the other counters, no he wasn't, he wrote that letter rejecting Nazi racial classifications. It makes a ton of sense for the orcs to be Mongol-ish, but that the target of that stereotype has shifted around with more recent history and colonialism.

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Yes, it all made a lot more sense to me with that specific context.