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The hosts grow increasingly hostile, arguing that these attempts are not innocent reinterpretations but deliberate acts of cultural vandalism. They assert that the "decolonization" movement in academia is a cover for replacing Western traditions with foreign or non-Western ones, often implying that it’s rooted in racial hostility against whites.
They deride the idea that dark-skinned characters in Middle-earth are victims of “ethnic chauvinism,” claiming that they are inherently evil because it aligns with biblical and mythological stereotypes that humans are naturally inclined to project.