yolland
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Well, there was no Atlantic slave trade in midgets (properly, actual "little people"). And conventional visual representations of "elves" aren't noticeably based on a known historical tradition of representing midgets as stupid, bestial and ugly.Where is all the little people outrage?
I get that cultural context matters, that said, there's no mistaking that the (present-day) standard appearance of this character is based on the blackface/minstrelsy tradition.
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