Chapter 980 Social News
In the early morning, there was a busy scene at King's University in London. The students set out from their apartments and hurried towards the classroom. Students of different skin colors were intertwined.
Ronan held a cup of latte in one hand and a sandwich and a newspaper he had just bought from a convenience store, preparing to take a look in the boring class.
The mobile phone signal on campus is not good, and it takes a long time to load the pictures on instagram, so reading newspapers has become the best way to pass the time.
After entering the stairs classroom, Ronan found a position in the middle and sat down, then spread the newspaper on the table and read it down page by page.
The Times is the most authoritative newspaper in the UK. The front page of this issue is the history of the replacement of Downing Street. However, Ronan was not interested in politics at all. After reading the royal gossip, he went to find the results and detailed reports of the Wimbledon Open.
The professor at the bottom was boring and chattering endlessly, and the students on the ladder were yawning one by one, and only a few were listening carefully.
Suddenly, Ronan's hand shook twice because he actually saw a familiar name in the social sector, and that book was exactly what he was planning to read after reading the newspaper.
The title "The Lord of the Rings novels are suspected of racism" looks extremely intimidating. If this is true, it will definitely cast a shadow on the novel and the movie, and may attract boycotts from all walks of life!
Ronan has just seen the second part now. He recalled carefully. It seems that he has not found anything related to racism in the novel. Could it be that the minorities are not in the Middle Earth world?
But the author himself has yellow skin, and he didn't say that there were people like them missing.
Could it be that the contents that were written in the following content?
He decided not to express his opinion at first, but to see what this article was written. The Times should still be trustworthy and should not make a conclusion.
[Recently, the new work of the famous writer Zhang Chu series "The Lord of the Rings" is considered to be racist and discriminatory, and a large number of them advocate bloodline determinism.
Andy Duncan is a science fiction writer and academic professor. Duncan talked about his views on racism in "The Lord of the Rings" in an interview with a program. He believes that Zhang Chu repeatedly emphasized that some races are stronger than other races, and some are worse than others. If he maintains this view for a long time, it will have terrible consequences for himself and society!
In "The Lord of the Rings", the orcs are depicted as ugly, weird humanoid creatures, who desire to kill and are the minions of the evil demon king Sauron.
Duncan added: "In fact, we can easily imagine that these orcs who act according to the devil's orders are just for self-protection purposes. They are modern refugees and should not be demonized by the author."
In addition to Duncan, another Dr. Stephen Shapiro, who is engaged in cultural studies, also bluntly stated that the good people in Zhang Chu's works are all whites, and the bad people are all blacks, with their eyes slanted, lack of charm, unclear speech, and immature mentally.
Except for the main supporting role Sam is a gardener, the other positive characters are almost all from famous families. Needless to say, the Baggins family, Gandalf is a god, Legolas is the son of the Elf Lord, Jinli is the close relative of the Dwarf King, and Needless to say, Aragon is directly from the royal blood of Noumenor, and finally became the king of Gondor. Even the dead Polomo is the son of the regent.
The orcs are black-skinned, and the evil humans are in the East and the South. This is simply the best proof of racism...]
Ronan was stunned. He didn't expect that the so-called doctors and professors' views were so unique that ordinary people could not keep up with this rhythm.
Although the whole world is paying attention to political correctness, this explanation is too far-fetched.
If you classify the orcs as black people, at least you have to ask the black people whether they agree! Maybe the black friends have to say that the two professors are truly racial discrimination, and they actually compare the orcs with them!
If the orcs in "The Lord of the Rings" encounter racism, then there shouldn't be flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz"; "Beauty and the Beast" does not require wild beasts, let alone be said to be imprisoned, and human rights and feminist organizations will swear this work to death; there shouldn't be coyote villains in "The Lion King".
All settings for negative characters in fantasy stories will be put into danger because of this stupid idea.
"It is clearly written about a fictional world, and I have to compare that world with our real world. Then, will there really be a feminist organization saying that there are no female characters in the Lord of the Ring Expedition Team in this novel, which is discriminating against women, right?"
Various politically correct remarks are flooding the media and life, but in fact, many people are not buying into such remarks and actions, but they are not shown.
The original intention of these activities is good, but some people always use chicken feathers as command arrows to pave the way for themselves.
Everyone just dares to be angry but not speak out, and no one wants to be labeled such a big hat.
Ronan was very disappointed that the Times actually published such news. For a gimmick, did this newspaper really want the authority it maintains?
It would be fine if readers who have not read the novel "The Lord of the Rings", but almost none of them agree with the views in the news!
It's completely far-fetched and does not consider the situation of the novel. Could it be that a two-party election is being held in fantasy novels?
This time, almost all the British netizens on Twitter stood on Zhang Chu's side, constantly quarreling the Times, who was in danger of being safe in the evening.
"There is no evidence that this book has racism or ancestry theory with the author!"
"If you read books with this mentality, then any book will have flaws. Maybe next time someone will criticize Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre for not having black characters."
“Very disappointed with this newspaper!”
"I want to say that writer is crazy? Orcs are not even humans, why do you say they are black people!"
"This is just a work with a style similar to medieval Europe. Whether you believe it or not, Europe was like this at that time!"
"I haven't read this book, but after reading the news, I feel that this statement is completely slander and slander!"
Although the complete collection of "The Lord of the Rings" has been launched in the UK and the sales are very good, in fact, not many people have watched it. The time is too short, especially compared with the daily circulation of The Times.
Nowadays, many people only know that there is such a work that makes the two professors and doctors go crazy!
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I didn't mean to update it late today. The author has been concentrating on pretending to be young for 30 years and has almost deceived himself successfully, but he has never deceived his relatives around him. The whole family is very concerned about me, an older single young man.
Chapter completed!