Because I'm petty, I'm going to gather you all around and tell you about that time JK Rowling was extremely wrong about something and, by being wrong about it, poisoned Google search results for it for years afterwards and generally made the world ignorant about it
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The word has a real meaning in a real life culture, and Rowling is guilty of distorting that meaning and promoting that distortion until anyone who was trying to learn the real meaning would find it very difficult I am arguing this is a tangible harm she has done
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This seems to be something people feel free to quibble with me about because they treat it as "trivia" - "Who cares if she got the Malagasy language wrong? Aren't they all dead, like the Romans, or the Navajo?" You don't seem to get how offensive this is
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