The goblins never thought for a second that they were attacking the adventurers. It was they who were under attack. Goblins saw themselves as the victims in all things, and so it was everyone elseâs fault if the goblins fought back. The deaths of their comrades only stoked a vengeful anger in them.
Goblin Slayer vol 2 apparently. @ruaken actually posted this, but my reblog won't show up in searches and I thought it should.
Don't try to humanise goblins after you're written them as a homogeneous race of gang rapists. Humanising a completely evil race just invites the idea of an intrinsically evil race of humans, which is exactly the racist subtext that always-chaotic-evil fantasy races perpetuate. And it's more terrible worldbuilding in the service of right wing politics, because a species without the moral sense to work out that rape was wrong would be unlikely to develop any deep non-selfish concepts of comradeship and 'victims being in the right' in any case; they would glorify aggression, not victimhood.
In our culture, and historically, Native Americans, Jews, women and rape survivors, the poor and unemployed have all been regularly accused of 'playing the victim' by the more powerful groups that were/are actively persecuting them. I think it's referred to as gaslighting, or a form of it? This is a bigger problem than 'playing the victim'; this quote only further confirms my low opinion of Goblin Slayer and its distressing appeal to Trump voters.