Argonians Are Property

ARGONIANS ARE PROPERTY! ARGONIANS ARE PROPERTY! ARGONIANS ARE PROPERTY! The scourge of slavery is the defining sin of our people. While the Redguards prize their swords and the Wood Elves prize their trees, we prize our blood-property. We built our Houses on the backs of a proud and mysterious people whose lives we destroy with reckless abandon. We think ourselves better than them because of our true faith and our smooth skin. But I tell you this: there is more goodness in the heart of one Argonian laborer than in all the hearts of all the landed oathmen of Morrowind combined.

The image juxtaposes a grotesque, screaming Morrowind character chanting “ARGONIANS ARE PROPERTY!” with a smug-looking character and an Argonian behind him delivering an elaborate anti-slavery speech. The joke is the extreme hypocrisy: the speech condemns slavery while the other panel openly treats Argonians as property. It is used as an absurd reaction meme about performative morality and fictional-world racism. EN: The image juxtaposes a grotesque, screaming Morrowind character chanting “ARGONIANS ARE PROPERTY!” with a smug-looking character and an Argonian behind him delivering an elaborate anti-slavery speech. The joke is the extreme hypocrisy: the speech condemns slavery while the other panel openly treats Argonians as property. It is used as an absurd reaction meme about performative morality and fictional-world racism.

• @eternalclassic / 30200 2023-03-31