sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 hours agoI still have more beef for that hacksopuli.xyzimagemessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1543file-text
arrow-up1543imageI still have more beef for that hacksopuli.xyzsad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 hours agomessage-square86fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAnyOldName3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 hours agoThis isn’t a hypothetical thread. Rowling’s Pottermore blog had this post https://web.archive.org/web/20170929062836/https://www.pottermore.com/features/to-spew-or-not-to-spew-hermione-granger-and-the-pitfalls-of-activism (which has since been removed, but only after it had been up for years) full of slavery apologia and with the premise that whether or not slavery is bad, Hermione’s actions to try and stop it (which amounted to asking people to stop having slaves) were worse.
minus-squareramble81@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 hours agoYeah figured it wasn’t hypothetical, but holy fuck people… do they not realize that all you have to do is change “elf” to “black people” and those are literally the same arguments used for slavery and how wrong that was….
minus-squareAnyOldName3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 hour agoAnd it gets worse when combined with Rowling’s later comments that she’d always imagined Hermione was black.
This isn’t a hypothetical thread. Rowling’s Pottermore blog had this post https://web.archive.org/web/20170929062836/https://www.pottermore.com/features/to-spew-or-not-to-spew-hermione-granger-and-the-pitfalls-of-activism (which has since been removed, but only after it had been up for years) full of slavery apologia and with the premise that whether or not slavery is bad, Hermione’s actions to try and stop it (which amounted to asking people to stop having slaves) were worse.
Yeah figured it wasn’t hypothetical, but holy fuck people… do they not realize that all you have to do is change “elf” to “black people” and those are literally the same arguments used for slavery and how wrong that was….
And it gets worse when combined with Rowling’s later comments that she’d always imagined Hermione was black.