It's not really that "forensic" to ask what the word "Alohomora" means This is what's honestly sinister about the whole way this topic gets discussed - Malagasy culture is a real thing that exists in the real world, it's not some body of archeological trivia
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Anonversations
It's a generally shitty thing white writers do to treat real life cultures they consider foreign as just bodies of "lore" for them to mine and then to remix and recontextualize as they see fit, as though other countries are just fairytale kingdoms from children's stories
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Anonversations
And JK Rowling does this A LOT, which is why she gets people so pissed at her Like she thought it'd be clever to do a good-guy-bad-guy switch with Navajo skinwalkers and say skinwalkers were really innocent Animagi who were persecuted by evil charlatans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Anonversations
And she treated this like just flipping the good guys and bad guys in a comic book As though the Navajo aren't REAL PEOPLE and she didn't just casually tell a bunch of REAL PEOPLE that "in my fantasy world your religious leaders are all grifters and liars"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Anonversations
The most offensive thing about it was in fact that she was surprised by the reaction It would have been better if the whole thing were intentional trolling Like if I said the Catholic Church were secretly run by vampires I would at least expect Catholics to get offended
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Replying to @JimP32 @Anonversations
I mean, yeah, if you're a gigantic asshole
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I cannot believe how brazen people are about just prancing about publicly declaring what shitty, shitty people they are and being proud like this is a sign of maturity "The thing is, when you offend a minority, it doesn't matter You're allowed to do that, they're minorities"
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"That's the whole thing about minorities -- there's not very many of them! They're outnumbered! You get to insult and exploit them as much as you like! If there were enough of them to actually stop you from doing so, they'd be the majority!"
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Fucking Christ You're repeating back to me the very thing I was complaining about -- the fact that the vast majority of British and American kids know jack shit about Madagascar and swallowed JKR's bullshit about "West Africa" uncritically -- as proof it doesn't matter
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"Well all the little white kids don't know! They don't care! They gave her lots of money and she's super rich! So cry moar" My God eat shit and go to hell you colonizing piece of trash
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You all talk exactly like smug Trump supporters "Well apparently you DON'T need to know anything or be good at anything to become a bestselling writer, or to be elected President of the United States! That's not how the system even works! So why are you complaining?"
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That is EXACTLY why I am complaining It is the WHOLE REASON I complain, IN GENERAL It is the basic and fundamental foundation of the entire human history of complaining It is the Ur-Complaint
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