"Stop using a cultural phenomenon that almost everyone from a certain generation can understand!!" I'm sorry but framing things using well-known fiction to increase understanding is something we've done SINCE FICTION WAS FIRST CREATED and you should probably get over it https://twitter.com/firs_in/status/1235799421381574657 …
I mean sure, the Harry Potter dunks are annoying, but I would argue fandom isn't the same as people referencing a book they were specifically taught in classrooms because it was written as a political allegory
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Not that facile use of the word "Orwellian" to describe everything the government does it disagree with isn't also annoying
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Most people's understanding of that political allegory is no more complex than the political allegories that can be found in HP. Yes the books aren't that deep, but a lot of what people get from deeper books isn't that deep either. Especially when it's a cultural phenomenon
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This also isn't just about one book. Every popular bit of fiction in history up to and including religious mythology has been used by people to compare literally everything they experience to because that's literally the point of stories, we use them to understand reality
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Harry Potter and 1984 are both political allegories
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