Stereotyping the Horde

Terra Nova is having a discussion today entitled Cultural Borrowing in WoW, looking at the cultural references made in relation to the Horde (Jamaicans for the Trolls, Native Americans for the Tauren) and what that means given the Horde's reputation as Evil. From the article: "I want to talk about how science fiction and fantasy often engage in this type of borrowing -- most 'new' things are just old things recoded. For instance, the Wikipedia entry on Klingons points to the Soviets, Mongolians, and Japanese Samurai. In most cases, I think this whole process of cultural encryption, mash-up, and recoding is fun -- perhaps what good art is all about. Looking particularly at WoW, though, I have to wonder sometimes..."

:O

[joe 155]

when I clicked I got the "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."... has it stereotyped me (because I have a girlfriend) as someone who doesn't play WoW?... surely the fact that I am on /. means I really am the core demegraphic

Re:Horde IS supposed to be evil ?!?!?!

[Anonymous Coward]

trolls are always evil you say.

:O

but whilst I'm here can I interest you in some spam? http://www.spam-me.org/ [spam-me.org]

Trolls = Jamaican

[Johnso]

Ooh, I hope all of the Slashdot trolls chime in with their Jamaican accents!

"Slashdot is teh suck, mon!"

Re:Ugh. No. Wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

They lumped all the minorities on the "Horde side". What the hell doesn't that say?

Sure, the horde's not evil. Except for like, hundreds of them. Orcs (Black people, obviously), Undead (Goths, obviously), Tauren (fat people, indians, obviously) and Trolls (More black people.. good god). Now, inherently there's nothing wrong with them. Just all the quests on the Alliance side that make them the bad guys for story purposes.

Its really sad how racist the guys over at Blizzard are. I feel sorry for them.

Re:Bring out Planescape Torment again

[meringuoid]

For that matter could you imagine a troll with the bearing of a british gentleman?

Ever met a public-school rugby player?

Moderating

[Loquis]

Is being moderated a troll when talking about trolls a good thing or a bad thing?