: Re: Fictional races and fictional racism Possibly related questions: Should I add racism in my book's world or have my world have no racism? Is accurate human nature required for good writing,

Fantasy Racism is not just normal, it is part of the genre (as it exists traditionally).

But it is good fun racism that normalizes the real racism of the real world.

The lower thug races (goblins and orcs) are unabashedly modeled after Jews and Blacks. (and most of the time, they work for a white evil human, or a wizard )..

The higher races (the elves) are basically the idealized image of Nordic Aryan Warrior Poet Princes and Princesses.

Then there are the regular people (the humans) who are basically normal working class generic western european white peasantry, people who strive to impress the elves.

the bandits and barbarian humans are often depicted as foreigners (middle eastern or slavic). Black humans are very very rare in fantasy.

The Dwarves are pretty much the nice jewish people. (Has anyone noticed how the Hobbit, was basically a story about a hapless/well-meaning English gentleman trying to help a bunch of displaced jewish dwarves reclaim their ancestral homeland?)

There is almost never any inter-racial romance (except once in a while a human gets an elf, which gives hope to the target audience). Human rarely go for dwarves... everyone pine for the elves (except the goblins and orcs who are too low to pine, they can only rape and pillage the elves)

With all the wars of hate, it is always the lesser races raping and pillaging the higher races. (reinforcing the usual racial paranoia of the real world).

The higher races are always fighting EVIL, bringing peace to the land, and nation building.

The higher races never commit any war crimes or any atrocities against the lower races (conveniently the lower races never get any character development, so of course we never see anything from their point of view. Orc and goblins, do they even have women and children?)

So when you ask how to you avoid racism in fantasy.

One can argue it is part of the genre, but with the "normal" in mind, I have now given you a template to subvert expectation and change the genre.

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