I do if they're billionaires.
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The nearest antecedent to this is the quasi-slur "The Gnomes of Zurich" to refer to Swiss bankers, which is probably her inspiration And, sure, Swiss bankers aren't Jewish
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But the kind of nasty talk about "bankers" as a class of people as inhuman is really, really obviously, for anyone who knows anything about cultural history, antisemitism-adjacent
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Doesn't make her a nazi
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I didn't call her a nazi. I said she used an anti-Semitic trope. I'm far from the first person TODAY to point that out.
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what. Goblins have NOT always been hoarders of wealth in folklore. And also if you don't realise that there's a racial/ethnic connection in all the European tales of sneaky nasty forest creatures then I can't help you.
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moreover, British folklore DOES have goblins but they tend to do things like move your furniture around, steal iron tools & alcohol, & occasionally help out with farm tasks if they think you're cool (cf: shoemaking gnomes) Really they are closer to house elves than Bank Goblins
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Don't bring dobby into this
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JKR's use of folklore is so haphazard and sloppy It's not just that it's "inaccurate", it's that the new shit she made up isn't particularly interesting or good, it's all seat-of-the-pants
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