Not very subtle. From the Witcher blood origins
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And somehow "from the likes of you" isn't bigotry when they do it...
Friend individual, enemy horde.
And what bones was YOUR world built on?
This feminine victim complex Purity crusade. “You killed my ancestors” “I didn’t” “well your possible ancestors did so you’re equally guilty” (insert guilty fee fees). I wonder if they realize their attempt at demoralization has turned them into a joke to everyone but themselves.
the dangerous thing is that they don't know how liberating it is to know that you'll be considered guilty whether or not you actually do anything
"they'll call you a nazi anyway"
Quick lore dump for the Witcher, not that this show or the "actual" one bothered with it:
Elves are split into 2 main groups. One are an authoritarian, genocidal group living in an ethnostate on another world, and the others are pretty much the exact same thing except after they kicked the Dwarves around for years humans showed up and returned the favour.
Elves are absolutely shitheads in the Witcher universe. Either they are literal baby eating nazis [not actually much hyperbole in that one], or permanent victim complex whiners, because they started a fight they then lost. Repeatedly. Multiple times.
Not just this, but the humans were forced into this universe by the conjunction of the spheres, they were an oppressed people who were able to rapidly breed and out compete their oppressors to become the dominant species. The elves are doing everything they an to try and reclaim their power and would absolutely eradicate humanity if they could. Even the 'good' ones
There's a metaphor here, surely...
"Around an elf, protect yourself!"
You could say this is unintentionally based because the main series makes a big deal over what evil bigoted colonizers the humans were towards the poor, "indigenous" elves whom they "oppress," and even uses a black elf as their starting representative in the first episode just to hammer it home.
But were the humans refugees fleeing from ... not being able to find a job in the shithole they came from?
Is she meant to be human or a dwarf? Because before humans showed up the elves arrived and started attacking the native dwarves on the world the Witcher is set. Elves literally started this shit first and after oppressing the Dwarves for however long got a taste of their own medicine when humans showed up later and then did the same to them.
I believe that is indeed a Dwarf (played by...an actual dwarf). And this scene is probably the most lore-accurate thing in the entire Shitflixer franchise.
Holy fuck is her hair ugly.
The guy on the right doesn't even look vaguely medieval. He looks like he just came out of a hipster bar in Greenwich Village.
Then go back to where you & your ancestors came from and build something better. We even pay you for that.
"People who share phenotype with you did evil actions in the past. That is why I hate you, even though you personally MIGHT HAVE done no wrong, and I stand by my hatred of you based on phenotype even acknowledging that fact."
Depending on who is speaking to whom, this is either a strawman far-right nazi, or a sympathetic lovable left-wing darling.
His response should have been more "You expect me to feel sorry for an obvious inferior being? Your mere existence is a tribute to our sufferance. Continue to bitch and complain, and that will be rectified."
"i should add yours to the pile"
Cry. You should've fought harder.
It's never too late to commit the crimes you're falsely being accused of!
The dwarf is the one complaining to the elf. The elf says that was a long time ago