Fantastic Racism/Quotes
"Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green." |
"No, Diesel! I'm sure Sir Topham Hatt means a really useful steamie. You'll never be that!" —Thomas, Thomas the Tank Engine
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"I could never figure that," said Roger. "I mean why humans don't like toons. We're no different from humans, not really. We have different mannerisms, and different physical makeups, and a different way of talking, but we have the same emotions. We love and hate and laugh and cry exactly the same way humans do."
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Nail: This is my people's sacred battle ground. |
Parapsychics were treated in a manner similar to that members of socially unacceptable subgroups had been in a less enlightened time, with the fear of the different and of the unknown. The metaphor was imperfect, due to the fact that gays, for example, lacked the ability to set people on fire with their mind. |
Gingerbread Man: You're a monster! |
"Think of the people who would have thrown Einstein in an oven because his parents were nominally Jewish... Now imagine that everyone, everywhere, could instantly see and tell which primary tribal group or ancestral type you were. Because your people have four arms and are striped, and others have goatlike hindquarters, and others are hermaphroditic pastel-colored female shapes with tails, or half cat, or snake, or hairy ape, or so on. You see where I am going?" —Antonio, The Moreau Factor
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Suffer not the alien, the mutant, the heretic. |
"Everyone hates aliens Peri, It's a scientific fact." —Entree, Spliced.
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Bartender: We don't serve their kind here. |
"You humans are all racist!" —Un-self-aware Turian at a security checkpoint, Mass Effect 2
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Shepard: You forgot your chit at Saronis Applications. The clerk is holding it for you. —General treatment of the Quarians in Mass Effect 2
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I sure am proud to be pureblooded white-I mean, wizard! Tee hee hee. —Draco Malfoy, Potter Puppet Pals.
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"Greetings, obviously inferior yet inexplicably respected alien lifeforms." —Shockwave, summing up the typical TransTech attitude towards "offworlders", "Bee in the City"
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Doctor Fabulous:I fight a thousand of you alien scumbags a week! You're all the same to me! |
Commander Hurricane: Earth ponies are numbskulls! —My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Hearth's Warming Eve"
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"Don't play cards with Qunari—it's impossible to tell when they're bluffing. Don't play against elves, either—they never pay their debts. And never play against dwarves—they'll kill you if they lose." |
Patrick:Yellow! |
Q: Isn't a meerkat a type of mongoose? |
Shrek:“Well, it seems that Fiona's not exactly happy.” —Shrek 2
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An ogre from a swamp. Oh! How original. —Shrek 2
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"Gorillas are cowards! Nowadays you're not allowed to say it, but it's true!" —Dan McNinja, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
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(About the faunus they saw earlier) —RWBY, The Stray
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