If The Lord of the Rings Is Racist, So Are Its Critics
Channel: Foundation for Economic Education
Date: 2021-07-08

In the last few years, we've seen a rising trend of activists mining older content to criticize it for being problematic by modern standards. Recently, The Lord of the Rings has become a target of outrage over its "outdated" depictions of race. 

At the same time, a battle is raging in the culture over Critical Race Theory, "Wokism", and what kinds of ideas are appropriate to teach in public schools.

These are all really complex and contentious issues, but we're going to tackle them as fairly and clearly as we can on this episode of Out of Frame.
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CREDITS:
Written and Produced by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Arash Ayrom
Motion Graphics by Michael Ozias
Asst. Edited by Jason Reinhardt
with support from Tyler Brandt, Matt Hampton, and Matt Tabor

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LINKS:
-- Criticism of The Lord of the Rings --
https://screenrant.com/lord-of-the-rings-lack-of-diversity-other-problems-sam-frodo-arwen/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/chi-030112epringsrace-story.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/sci-fi-writer-says-lord-rings-racist-because-it-emily-zanotti
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/lord-of-the-rings-slammed-for-perpetuating-racism-through-depiction-of-orcs/
https://thedipp.com/lord-of-the-rings/lotr-tolkien-racism-orcs
https://www.girlsaskguys.com/social-relationships/q4355979-lord-of-the-rings-should-it-be-cancelled-due-its-white-supremacy
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-summer-seminar/

-- Tolkien's Views on Race -- 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letters_of_J._R._R._Tolkien
https://www.torahmusings.com/2013/01/tolkien-and-the-jews/

-- CRT & Wokism - 
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/us/critical-race-theory-explainer-trnd/index.html

https://medium.com/the-new-standard/black-history-a-history-of-permanent-white-oppression-from-1619-to-2016-8bcfa38dfce
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/how-slavery-shaped-american-capitalism
https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/14/biden-u-n-ambassador-linda-thomas-greenfield-says-u-s-was-founded-on-white-supremacy/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/07/the-white-nationalist-roots-of-donald-trumps-warsaw-speech.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture
https://www.debate.org/debates/The-Concept-of-Western-Culture-is-rooted-in-racism/1/
http://cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/dr-culture.html
https://theboeskool.com/2018/08/14/the-enticing-white-supremacy-of-jordan-peterson/
https://nypost.com/2021/02/23/coca-cola-diversity-training-urged-workers-to-be-less-white/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/coca-cola-facing-backlash-says-be-less-white-learning-plan-was-about-workplace-inclusion/ar-BB1dT8Yg
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-white-people-will-neve_b_7875608
https://voxatl.org/recognizing-my-white-privilege-i-understand-that-i-will-never-understand-but-i-stand/
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-only-white-people-can-be-racist/
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/yes-all-white-people-are-racist-eefa97cc5605
https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/relationships-love/a32824297/color-blind-myth-racism/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-colorblindness-is-act_b_10886176
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culturally-speaking/201112/colorblind-ideology-is-form-racism

-- Criticism of 1619 -- 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174140
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-1619-project-is-a-fraud/ar-BB19gJbh
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/24/editorial-1619-project-bad-history-fueled-bad-moti/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-1619-project-gets-schooled-11576540494
https://www.aier.org/article/fact-checking-the-1619-project-and-its-critics/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/14/1619-project-founder-has-a-tantrum-after-nyt-publishes-critical-column-n1052400
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/25/in-racist-screed-nyts-1619-project-founder-calls-white-race-barbaric-devils-bloodsuckers-no-different-than-hitler/

-- CRT in Schools --
https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1407731762411753475
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1403147339817234437