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    • fed [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      yeah but her recent terf book shows how surface level her bigotry is. can you not imagine a hack writer doing the thinnest veil of bigotry

      https://mobile.twitter.com/LeezartTime/status/1501226826445717505

          • MendingBenjamin [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Hermione apparently also being black canonically makes Joanne mocking her being an abolitionist even more bigoted.

            Hermione is literally described as having white skin in the books. This was just a cynical retcon. Either way it’s fucked up.

            Rita Seeker is obviously trans coded and her character is centered around being deceptive, conniving, and predatory.

            For real? This is one I’d never caught. Then again, RK seems to describe every single woman she doesn’t like as having “mannish” hands

        • fed [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          society as a baseline is transphobic or apathetic at best towards people who are transphobic, so most ppl don't care about her being a terf or know what terf means. most ppl aren't anti-semitic and actively dislike antisemites

            • Mao_Zedong [comrade/them,none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              nah that one I can believe. Like transphobia is from ignorance, and having your whole social knowledge challenged, after which people lash out. Unjustly ofc.

              Tf did Judaism ever do to ppl?

                • Mao_Zedong [comrade/them,none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  Bigots lashing out when challenged is unsurprising and they still deserve a bullet.

                  1000%. Do you know why people, like at the individual level, are antisemitic? Maybe it's just because I'm trans, but i've never even met a Jewish person, that I can't really imagine antisemites.

                • WhyEssEff [she/her]M
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                  3 years ago

                  hi :andropov-wave:

                  reform, but i partake in the traditions

                  • fed [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    i actually did Passover once bc one of my families friends is a psychotic evangelical

                    there were no jewish ppl involved out of like 20 ppl lmao

              • Animasta [any]
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                3 years ago

                I don't care for any of those movies or games and even if I did, the woman is a terf anyway. It's just weird to me that people do this borderline conspiracy theory thinking to get offended on my behalf.

                • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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                  3 years ago

                  Rowling has, at the very least, a very liberal type of ignorant racism that can come from privilege, it has informed a lot of aspects of the books. Literally just about anytime a character that isn’t white is portrayed there’s some kind of sketchy element, even if it’s just lazy racist naming convention like “Cho Chang.”

                  Saying it’s a conspiracy theory thinking to notice the entire web of ambient white British racism in her work is, I think, being entirely too generous. But I do think it’s maybe fair to say that it’s extra highlighted bc of what an outright bigot she is to trans people

                  Her racism isn’t overtly or loudly white supremacist but it’s still pretty problematic, and part of the status quo, which is probably why you’re inclined to be so lenient, and still worth noting and calling out bc it helps reify that ideology in more insidious ways that tend to be imperceptible to greater liberal culture

                  • Animasta [any]
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                    3 years ago

                    Oh, I'm not saying that Rowling isn't the sort of racist you're describing and there are some very sketchy stuff in Harry Potter books, chiefly the whole slave elves thing.

                    But when people bringing up bank floor ornaments with a straight face, I start rolling my eyes.

                  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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                    3 years ago

                    The goblins in the lore are never depicted as totally liberated. The wizards continue to ban sentient magical creatures from owning wands, casting certain spells, living in certain areas, using money, etc. In fact, in the seventh book, the main characters try to get help from one goblin to break into a bank and are planning to trade him a mystical sword for his trouble, although their plan the entire time is to simply trick him and keep the sword for themselves.

                    The characters will point out how goblins and other magical creatures are oppressed, they might even be sad about it, like Dumbledore laments it at one point, but literally nothing is done to change anything. The best they can get is maybe a nicer person will run the oppressive government. Maybe the slaves will get a nicer master. can you guess JK's ideological position here

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        3 years ago

        Okay but how did nobody on set think that through? Someone made a conscious decision not to cover that up with some magical runes or whatever.

          • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            it reminds me of when people are like "tolkein's orcs aren't racist!" when in his private letters he literally describes them as "resembling the least lovely mongol types"

                • WhyEssEff [she/her]M
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                  3 years ago

                  yeah antisemitism is generally something that is super subtly reinforced comparative to, say, transphobia, so yeah it is 100% not a tiny detail for me the fact that one of the largest book franchises has that blatant a connection to antisemitic stereotypes and the fact that the movies chose to reinforce it with those tiny details.

          • MerryChristmas [any]
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            3 years ago

            I'm not all that invested in this so I probably won't Google it, but the size isn't really the point. I'm not saying that Rowling personally placed a Star of David in the background just to make sure nobody missed her antisemitism, but I also find it hard to believe that nobody suggested that it might not be such a good idea to film a scene about a sub-human race of Goblin bankers while using a Jewish bank as your backdrop.