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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It's the whole thing about "clogging up Google's results" that pisses me off Like, all these people who've never even read the book are going to think for the rest of their lives it's a "Harry Potter thing" and buy her ridiculous explanation about the "West African dialect"
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There's this extra edge of nastiness to it because the Malagasy are, overall, a frequently overlooked and "obscure" culture (I admit I don't know much about their culture or history myself)
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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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*Sikidy See, now she's got me doing it
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