so i've covered the fantasy genre a lot on my channel over the last like two years or something and i even covered it recently with john stuart saying that the goblins in harry potter were like anti-semitic caricatures of racist stuff like the nazis used to believe and stuff like that but today i want to take like a bit of a deeper dive into fantasy and in particular like racism within fantasy only about how fantasy authors often like take what they know personally and like translate it to their fantasy work and that includes bringing over like the concept of race race is a societal construct race doesn't really exist i mean we have to treat it like it exists now but the invention of race was created over hundreds of years people seem to always get funny when i talk about like racism being like a hierarchy of invented races but like the racialization of anglo-saxons as a race is something because anglo-saxons in their view exist at the top of the racial pyramid in their view below them you have the spanish and the italians who may be christian but also might have muslim and jewish blood in them so they're not as pure as you guys and as you see with like when settlers went to new worlds particularly spanish and portuguese settlers they created whole systems of racial hierarchies based on how spanish or portuguese you were so when we're talking about someone like tolkien for example who of course wrote all these books set middle earth he isn't immune to the prejudices of his day when creating his races in his middle earth books and then you take things like goblins and harry potter which obviously created with jk rowling either being ignorant or knowing about goblins often being used as a stand-in for jewish people in like a lot of fantasy stuff which even the nazis believed and we're gonna get on to that at the end i mean you have like more modern incarnations like the twilight films and the twilight books which have racist problems because they're based on the author's own views on things like the quill you tribe who she never met or asked permission to use them in her works but she depicts them as a group of like wolves who have uncontrollable like rage and often bloodlust compared to the mainly white vampires the cullens who can actually control their bloodlust and you guys might think well it's fantasy it's not real but like with many fantasy works often depictions of certain groups of people are based on bigoted views of the real world so we're going to get into all of that today before we get any further if you guys want to support my channel please like the video maybe comment and subscribe if you're new if you want to follow me on social media at the tabernacle on twitter and instagram if you want to support my work going forward no matter what youtube does if it's weird to monetization we're actually in a new phase where youtube decided that they don't trust me again all of a sudden you guys will remember in december i was talking about this as well well they're doing it again so if you want to support my work continuing for the future
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN the video maybe comment and subscribe if you're new if you want to follow me on social media at the tabernacle on twitter and instagram if you want to support my work going forward no matter what youtube does if it's weird to monetization we're actually in a new phase where youtube decided that they don't trust me again all of a sudden you guys will remember in december i was talking about this as well well they're doing it again so if you want to support my work continuing for the future END_INTERACTION_TOKEN