Okay, fine I think her use of "Alohomora", to anyone who actually knows what it means and where it comes from (which is a regrettably small minority), is cringey and awkward as hell I think that that's a generally shitty thing to do to minority cultures from other countries
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid
Dog-Latin, whatever, you're riffing on stuff all the bored posh white kids were forced to learn in school It doesn't cost that much effort to make it more correct, and there will be people who will be pleased by you doing so -- but sure, you don't have to, it's just a book
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid
But it's the careless and sloppy appropriation from other cultures that looks really bad I mean, look, this is *actual misinformation* that has spread like wildfire all over the Internet -- it's actively *impeding* people learning about real-life Sikidy who want to learn
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid
Like, if she'd just put the word in her book because it sounded cool, and then in interviews owned up to it and said "I didn't know what it meant, I put it in my book because it sounded cool", that'd be one thing But she LIED Not in the book, in real life, she lied to people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid
She said that bullshit about borrowing from "the West African dialect of Sidiki a word that means 'friendly to thieves'" in a court case, in the specific context of proving how much research she'd done in order to shore up her IP rights to the Harry Potter universe
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid
It was a shitty thing to do It was a *minor* shitty thing to do, but it makes her look bad, and it very much ties in to her cavalier treatment of facts throughout the history of the Harry Potter franchise and in her attempts at being a Twitter public intellectual
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid
Again, I have to point out how much of a slap in the face it is when something like Harry Potter takes over the Google search results for a real thing from your own culture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid
Bulgarian here. Victor Krum is not how Bulgarian names work. And it's likely to be the only exposure to even the idea of Bulgaria for literally millions of people. It's such casual, careless racism.
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But to be fair, if Hermione were Asian we'd probably see her as the brilliant Asian stereotype. If Ron were non-white we'd probably see him as an Uncle Tom or Tonto stereotype. Most of the characters are cut-outs & become offensive as soon as they are from a minority.
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Wow, I guess that since white people have tainted our perception of all non-white characters with the vast array of racist stereotypes they've created, we have no other choice but to just make all characters white in order to avoid invoking those stereotypes How convenient
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