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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Maybe if you named an Irish character "Paddy O'Drunkard" it might come close
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I mean I'm mostly of Irish heritage and I think it's funny. But yes, that's closer.
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That you think an Englishman wouldn’t find something to be offended about there suggests you’ve not spent much time with Englishmen
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Lol I've actually had a surprising number of TERFs yell at me for being an American who hates English people, carrying this huge chip on their shoulder about "Americocentrism" in media I think of it as mostly tactical feigned outrage but I dunno what goes on in their heads
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To me, when I read Harry Potter (as an adult) I just thought it was extremely simple children's fare and escapism, harmless as a gateway drug to good fantasy. So the garbled Latin and so forth in the spells and the foreign people's names that sounded like random syllables...
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...were just cringey things to be expected of run-of-the-mill children's books written by white people. I was always really confused as to why people saw more to Rowling's writing than that or acted like they were earth-shattering.
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