okay okay, i know jk rowling is horribly anti-semetic but i’d like to know how she is racist? i dont doubt it given the other info i have about her, but i’d like an example of her racism if possible
horribly anti-semetic but i’d like to know how she is racist
european antisemitism is racist. it’s theoretically possible to exclusively have a problem with religious practitioners of judaism, but that’s not something that actually happens anymore. the goblins in her books are not shown to be practitioners of a bad cult, but bearers of undesirable racial traits.
well there’s the (only) asian character whose name is literally “Cho Chang”
or the one black person (of two!) named “Kingsly Shacklebolt”
oh and just for fun i’m pretty sure the one coded-irish character is constantly causing explosions? but we’re getting into p fuzzy recall territory tbh, and i’m sure there’s plenty more.
technically there’s four Black folk in the Harry Potter books, but Rowling goes out of her way to not mention Lee Jordan despite Lee being a quidditch shoutcaster and allegedly the best friend of the Weasley twins, or Angelina Johnson, despite Angelina being Gryffindor’s Chaser (god what an awful name for a sports role in this day and age) (and didn’t she date one of the Weasley twins, too?) and she made Blaise Zabini a straight-up Death Eater-aligned Slytherin, so… Yeah, I’m gonna drill a couple more screws into the ‘racist’ sign she’s wearing
I’d say there’s five but I don’t have the spoons to have the “Hermione is a black girl, there’s no such thing as a tea cracker who needs a perm put in her hair for a school dance” argument with burger cracker liberals
I can picture the sticky note shortlist that name came from, and I’m receiving a psychic premonition that she chose Cho Chang after writing and then crossing out something else.
okay okay, i know jk rowling is horribly anti-semetic but i’d like to know how she is racist? i dont doubt it given the other info i have about her, but i’d like an example of her racism if possible
european antisemitism is racist. it’s theoretically possible to exclusively have a problem with religious practitioners of judaism, but that’s not something that actually happens anymore. the goblins in her books are not shown to be practitioners of a bad cult, but bearers of undesirable racial traits.
well there’s the (only) asian character whose name is literally “Cho Chang”
or the one black person (of two!) named “Kingsly Shacklebolt”
oh and just for fun i’m pretty sure the one coded-irish character is constantly causing explosions? but we’re getting into p fuzzy recall territory tbh, and i’m sure there’s plenty more.
He’s not just coded Irish, his name is literally Seamus Finnegan, and yeah he’s most associated with blowing shit up
technically there’s four Black folk in the Harry Potter books, but Rowling goes out of her way to not mention Lee Jordan despite Lee being a quidditch shoutcaster and allegedly the best friend of the Weasley twins, or Angelina Johnson, despite Angelina being Gryffindor’s Chaser (god what an awful name for a sports role in this day and age) (and didn’t she date one of the Weasley twins, too?) and she made Blaise Zabini a straight-up Death Eater-aligned Slytherin, so… Yeah, I’m gonna drill a couple more screws into the ‘racist’ sign she’s wearing
I’d say there’s five but I don’t have the spoons to have the “Hermione is a black girl, there’s no such thing as a tea cracker who needs a perm put in her hair for a school dance” argument with burger cracker liberals
Read the harry Potter books… Well don’t. But we got cho chang as the only Asian for example. What a name eh
I can picture the sticky note shortlist that name came from, and I’m receiving a psychic premonition that she chose Cho Chang after writing and then crossing out something else.
Just listen to Shrieking Shack instead lol
Here’s one example:
The way she handled Native Americans in the Harry Potter universe was racist and got a lot of complaints at the time. Here’s an article about it.