Wanting to be hated

Baalsamael-turalyon · January 20, 2021, 6:24am

The entire original concept of Warcraft and up until Cataclysm was recurring racism lmao

Anywho here’s my full non-cherry-picked post:

Just going to point out

Noble Savage is a racist trope, not a narrative to aspire to

Horde needs to be written as antiheroes, but Blizz is both unwilling and unable to do this

Everything that is Horde-race-centric is always either belittled in the narrative in favor of an Alliance race, or outright plagiarized for an Alliance race. Example of the former is Tauren were told “Actually your Musha stuff is false and dumb, Night Elves were right”, which is extremely problematic given Tauren are the in-game metaphor of North American Natives. Example of the latter is “Void Elves” being a faction of Blood Elves that are into tentacles being given to the Alliance and throughout BFA, extremely more useful to the Alliance than Blood Elves (who are the True Highborne diaspora).

The Alliance should just be written as more racist like they used to be, since they are by and large the White Westerner in-game metaphor. A lot of BFA would’ve been largely improved by all the Alliance being racist against the Horde except Anduin, since that would justify things.

"Re-Education Camps" are racist, so they should actually be suggested in-game to contribute to building up “Make Alliance Racist Again” efforts, so they share in villain bat.

Blizzard is unwilling to write the Horde as a functional anti hero, let alone as a hero, so give Alliance a few swings off the villain bat and have them go back to basics (Warcraft 1, 2 and 3 racism).

There is no other villain bat the Alliance can be hit with that makes narrative sense.

Making the Alliance Racist Again™ is the only villain bat that makes narrative sense, provides motivation for both internal Alliance conflict and Horde conflict, and would actually solve the current narrative racism problem of every expansion the POC/BAME/etc metaphor races being hit with a villain bat.