Magic The Gathering has decided to race swap Aragorn, but is it racist? Let’s talk.
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I agree with what you say about creating new content, it being lazy etc. Aragorn being black doesn't actually change anything about the character apart from skin colour – character is not skin colour, in fact to me it would be the least most important part of Aragorn's character?
If hating this stupid idea of making Aragorn a black man makes me a racist, then a racist I am!
This shit is so dope it will actualy make me read old books…
I'm a black man in America, but I totally agree with this video. I think race, gender and LGBT swapping is really ridiculous nowadays, I love Aragorn the way he is, even though there's not much representation in LOTR of people of color, I still love the whole saga, books and all, If it was me, I would simply just create new characters in the name of diversity to add with current established characters
No one is ever gonna give a shit about some nerdy shit hence why they try to add characters of color. They just wanna make more money they don’t give a fuck about nerdy white fans lord of rings only gained momentum cause of ring of power(it’s been a decade since the franchise mattered)without that show fan pages on Facebook Instagram and Reddit wouldn’t exist those fan pages are as old the ring of powers release date so I’m also calling out those fake ass toxic fans that have existed since the 80s and now those same nerdy losers are in those late 30s to late 50s. And holy fuck it’s hilarious to see people who get mad about race just shows who you truly are what’s wrong with race mixing. The real problem in society is overweight guys who Mae YouTube videos about race. Just kidding the real problem is white trans people and big corporate. They target children which is grooming which is pedophilism. But overweight nerds rather be outraged over a fictional characters skin color fuck you’d love it in the Jim Crow era.
Next up Gandalf the gray is actually a black pansexual trans woman, with a beard, who’s also bisexual 😂😂
It's racism against whites, it's that simple. White's skin color is less worth to them.
Can anyone make an edit of Black Panther white and put a "woke" description? Please, it would be fun
This is why this generation is the suckiest and trashiest as hell
DC, Marvel etc. use multiverses, so if they really wanted black Ara., it was the way.. but who cares.. its good ad for them anyway, i guess..
THE FACT IS THAT MAN PLAYING THE REAL BLACK MAN U A CRAZY RACIST SEEING BLACK PEOPLE NOBODY CARES WHAT U THINK
Wow, LotR fans have been treated so bad lately, I don't wish that on anybody
NOT BASED ON REALITY🤦♀️
BY PROTRAYING JESUS AS WHITE TALK ABOUT CHANGING A PERSON 'S COLOR.
Makes about as much sense as King Greyskull being black.
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It's not real Aragon isn't real none of this really matters just don't buy it
The Woke mindset of our century wants to butcher the originality behind Black Culture through promotion of a misleading take on what truly the color represents.
I imagine there’s a lot more Asians that are into nerdy stuff like magic the gathering, generally/stereotypically speaking. If it was all about representation for their fans, they would make him Asian.
You made fair points there. Give you that.
Lol cope harder
As long as he ain't brown, any other good.
AFAIR the colors of kings were black and silver, while colors of stewards were white and gold, so this costume though very kingly is not accurate on this "Aragorn".
As an MTG player, I like the set, as a fan of Tolkin I hate it, whats worse is his card is actually pretty good with a lot of commander build around potential, which is suspicious to me so that tells me something…
The problem is that all the raceswaps could be ok in for example opera or theatre, due to the places of particular show (when u make Shakespeare in Nigeria it is understandable and when u make Shakespeare in Siberia its also understandable) or due to the fact that many of works of opera are set in very "conventional" settings to such extend that u can stage them in 1th century as well as 18th century or 21th century. While Tolkien and many of other fantasy novels authors had created their worlds as unique, particular, with their own geography, climes, ethnography and economy, and so due to this while doing any kind of adaptation work we need to be in tune with those frames of their worlds. I, as prospective audience of such work like this look at this Aragorn and see some kind of kingly Haradrim guy, not Aragorn. And I have also disonance becouse this Haradric guy wears Aragorn's "elven stone" diadem. If this was a show or film I would not like to watch it, I m glad that its only a game and I m not gamer 🙂
In the game the inclusion is done much much better, as in oda nobunaga's black samurai Yasuke, the black captain is a person from rhun who has been admited in the lines of gondor, it could even get a good history as how that happened, but i dont rember if it had one. For what wotc said about the lotr, they just didnt know the lore or give two shits about it… it wasnt the ppl of middle earth united against sauron, u can even say that more ppl was in sauron's side than gondor, most of the world was under and obeyed sauron, blacks, whites and all the spectrum between.
They OPENLY hate you but expect you to keep their wallets full. Yeah, nah.
Just don't buy and speak with the wallet
"But…. But…. The people in charge of the Tolkien Estate said it was okay!"
And clearly they don't care about J.R.R. Tolkien's vision, just money via pandering.
Why don't they just give the gamer the ability to create their own character with several different options to choose from? You can then name them whatever you Want.
I'm just bored of them making them black characters. With all the ethnicities in the world they just go from European to African, where is the Arabic, East Asian, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans? Also there is lots of diversity in all of those European or African peoples and it just gets condenced down to white or black.
Go woke you'll go broke this change is very very very unnecessary and stupid.
Yes it is antiwhite mimetic pathogens. Wanting to erase westernkind. Time to go free, become whitepositive with love hope and redemption for the wellbeing of westernkind.