Is there anything about the orcs being dark-skinned? You might be mixing up orcs with the Haradrim. Sometimes orcs are portrayed as green. ‘Authoritarian’ is a propaganda-term used chiefly about Stalin and Hitler; they’re the type-examples. It might sometimes be used for black-skinned people like Mugabe or the Duvaliers, but less commonly; it’s normally a term liberals use for the Soviet bloc and the fascists. They have other propaganda-terms for their dark-skinned rivals.
Nah, authoritarian is basically a term for any system of governance that’s different from western liberal capitalism originating in Europe. Russia has never been seen as truly European in the west, this is basically what the whole untermensch narrative nazis embraced is based on. In the Nazi racial hierarchy, being “white” or “Aryan” was not a given for all Europeans. Instead, an internal hierarchy existed where Nordic peoples were at the top, and Slavs were placed at the bottom, akin to non-European races. And these are the values Europeans very much embrace to this day.
the whole orc narrative and Russian hordes narrative has very much been embraced by western media over the past four years https://web.archive.org/web/20260414080035/https://spectator.com/article/why-are-ukrainians-calling-russian-invaders-orcs/?edition=us
Is there anything about the orcs being dark-skinned? You might be mixing up orcs with the Haradrim. Sometimes orcs are portrayed as green. ‘Authoritarian’ is a propaganda-term used chiefly about Stalin and Hitler; they’re the type-examples. It might sometimes be used for black-skinned people like Mugabe or the Duvaliers, but less commonly; it’s normally a term liberals use for the Soviet bloc and the fascists. They have other propaganda-terms for their dark-skinned rivals.
Nah, authoritarian is basically a term for any system of governance that’s different from western liberal capitalism originating in Europe. Russia has never been seen as truly European in the west, this is basically what the whole untermensch narrative nazis embraced is based on. In the Nazi racial hierarchy, being “white” or “Aryan” was not a given for all Europeans. Instead, an internal hierarchy existed where Nordic peoples were at the top, and Slavs were placed at the bottom, akin to non-European races. And these are the values Europeans very much embrace to this day.