Yeah the whole thing about "Alohomora" is it's kind of flown under the radar but it's legitimately one of the more offensive things she's ever done Like, the Malagasy people have undergone a lot of oppression and cultural erasure and here she is just giving them another kickhttps://twitter.com/AmeliaRoseWrite/status/1310791828866695169 …
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There's just this one thing about them, their divination rituals, that "went viral" Western enthusiasts of witchcraft thought Sidiky was a really cool "magic system" and wrote it down and passed around the description of the signs a lot in the 19th century
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And it's kind of shitty to see any living human culture reduced to just one "cool thing" to be lifted for use by white fantasy authors (like how many people today don't even know the word "mana" originates from the religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders)
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But what's *worse* is for cultural memory of Sikidy to slowly fade over time until it's hardly referenced anymore -- only to be immortalized as a fucking HARRY POTTER THING A distorted compression of a distorted compression JKR going around talking about "West Africa" FFS
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