Quote (fender @ Aug 9 2023 11:46am)
oh, you can refuse to call them "orcs", that is perfectly fine, i don't think anyone has a problem with that. i don't usually call them that myself, but that is not at all the point. the point is that people falsely claim the term "orcs" is used in a racist way, to discriminate against all russians, just like the nazis de-humanised all jews - and that is simply not true. as far as i can tell, people here exclusively use it to describe invaders, murderers, rapists, and torturers.
show me someone who uses it against all russians, and i will happily agree with you they are in the wrong. you can't though, just like ferdia and all the other pootin apologists couldn't do that. it's just pearl clutching from people sympathetic to the russian cause, trying to downplay the suffering those invaders, murderers, and rapists cause in ukraine. "boohoohoo, how dare anyone call them names?" ridiculous...
I'm glad that you're more reasonable
As for people who use it against all Russians, its not hard to find them - they are all over Reddit. People openly dehumanizing all Russians because of their support for the war.