Goblins should be silly little guys that don't give a fuck. Sucks that some shitty writers have turned them into an anti-semetic caricature.
I like silly little guys.
I want a fantasy thing where the goblin is the hero. Let goblins win for once.
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You can do both. The bioessentialism can be a backwards reactionary cultural view that different cultures have, for example your humans could view the goblins as essentially just monsters that have to be slaughtered but the reality of goblin existence could be quite different.
When told from the human perspective you're getting your bioessentialism and then when told through the elf perspective, who could have an entirely different opinion of goblins, you can humanise them.
This would work best told in multiple books with completely different viewpoints. Viewpoint 1 being human, viewpoint 2 being a different race, viewpoint 3 being another. Each with different bioessentialist views of other races and each with more nuanced views of the races they respect and interact with amicably.
That’s only interesting as a deconstruction of the bio essentialism. I don’t think that concept could stand on its own enough to support a whole genre.
It's a very regular feature in anime isekai writing. At what point does it stop being a deconstruction and start being just a sub-genre niche within a niche of its own due to the frequency of it? How many times must a deconstruction be used before it just becomes its own thing?