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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

499. Are Orcs Racist? (with Christopher J. Ferguson)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson joins us to discuss his article “Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons & Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of Evil Monsters.”

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0:00.0

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0:19.6

All right, so now let's get to our show. Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

0:31.0

The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

0:35.0

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

0:39.0

Hello, and welcome to episode 499 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

0:46.0

Our guest today is Christopher J Ferguson, who you may remember from our future interview back in episode

0:51.0

420.

0:52.0

He is a professor of psychology at Stetson University and his articles

0:56.2

have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and the Houston Chronicle.

1:00.8

He's also the author of the mystery novel Suicide Kings and the non-fiction books

1:05.1

Moral Combat, Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong, which he wrote with

1:09.4

Patrick M. Markey and to have madness-shaped history, an eccentric array of maniacal rulers, raving narcissists,

1:16.4

and psychotic visionaries.

1:18.6

And we'll be speaking with them today about its article, Our Orks Racist, Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, anxiety, and the depiction of

1:25.2

quote evil monsters, which appears in the journal Current Psychology.

1:29.8

And now here's an review with Christopher J Ferguson.

1:32.4

All right, so we're review with Christopher J Ferguson.

1:33.7

All right, so we're here with Christopher J Ferguson.

1:35.6

Welcome to the show.

1:36.6

Hey, thanks for having me on today.

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