Lord of the memes @midwest.social The Picard Maneuver @startrek.website 10 mo. ago

Frodo gets cancelled

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It's a dagger that was made by elves, Galadriel.
- Please don't use the E word, thanks. The preferred nomenclature is 'Firstborn of Iluvatar'. DEFINITELY NOT 'pointy ears'
  
  These knife-eared snowflakes get whinier and whinier
Orcs aren't people.
- Well I know who's next in line for a little chat.
  
  Don't elves have a visceral hatred for orcs, what with them being originally elves brutally deformed and beaten into submission by Morgoth and all that ? If anything, most elves would like you a bit more for being racist towards orcs.
- Whoa man. Keep those ideas back in the first age where they belong.
- Are you suggesting that just because their ancestors were tortured beyond recognition that they are no longer worthy of basic rights?
  
  That's definitely a hot take if I've ever seen one.
  
  More or less a central pillar of the Mormon Church racism.
  
  I absolutely agree with you. However you could make the point, and of course I am not making that point, but one could argue that there was also some genetic engineering involved, that allegedly might have led to some qualityies that some might call a teeny tiny bit murderous.
- Jay we talked about this
- They absolutely are people. They clearly show intelligence and sapience. They may be people with morals that are opposed to the other species and they may be at war with them, but dehumanization (depersonization?) isn't the answer.
  
  Their entire species was created as a magical weapon. The funny thing they're really supposed to represent the cruelties of industrialization. Tolkien was not a fan of what England did with technology.
  
  They are constructs, imitations of life, animated by the evil will of Morgoth and his foul apprentice Sauron. They're no more people than ChatGPT is people.
- Yep, every single one of 'em.
Elves made the sword in the first place...
- Yeah and honestly that doesn't do much to silence the idea of racist origins funny enough.
Remember watching Fellowship as a teenager in 2001 (if you're a millennial) and thinking that Cate Blanchett was probably in her 50s? Yeah she was 31.
- I thought she was several thousand years old
Orcs aren't people and I'm not afraid to say it.
And then she made a bunch of Jade eggs for your puss puss and sold them.
- Do you think that's Ginuwine Paltrow?
- You're confusing Cate Blanchet with Gwyneth Paltrow.
- Galadriel is Cate Blanchett
Oh yay another shitty anti-woke meme on supposedly Leftist Lemmy.

There's no such thing as being cancelled, mature people just call it "consequences for actions".
- I can see why on the surface you might think it's a conservative meme, but it's not. It's poking fun at how rigid and yes potentially racist fantasy settings can be.
  
  Racism is a fantastic way of introducing conflict without having to come up with a particular reason. And stories without conflict are often really boring. Comes with the bonus points of being realistic.
  
  You're just trying too hard to justify the meme, OP's title is about cancellation, probably just copied wherever OP found the meme, and the meme itself is phrased to push the point that "woke" ruins even fantasy literature, this is a Right wing meme post.
- I'm pretty far left and I chuckled at this. This is why the right makes fun of us for not being able to take a joke.
  
  I'm pretty sure they have other, worse reasons.
  
  I also chuckled.
- Frodo isnt real my guy
- There's no such thing as being cancelled, mature people just call it "consequences for actions".
  
  So there is such a thing but you'd prefer people use different word for it?

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