When you look back on it from an adult perspective, trying to take this setting seriously, the idea that the Statute of Secrecy exists because "otherwise Muggles would be bothering us to solve their problems for them all the time" is a fucking moral horror It's monstrous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
And this elitist fuck-you-got-mine attitude isn't something that *died down* in JKR's worldview over time, it *increased* The Fantastic Beasts films turn the idea of witch trials and witch hunting from a joke into Serious Business
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
This reminds me - have you read the intro to the fantastic beasts book? It’s full of thinly veiled eugenics stuff and if I had the energy I’d write about it but I can’t bring myself to re-read it.
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Replying to @solitaryrainbow @arthur_affect and
“We casually sorted living creatures according to whether or not they could speak English or walk on two legs and determined their worth and rights based on that. We literally excluded Merfolk from our community because we couldn’t be bothered to learn their language”.
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Replying to @CanisLupus1365 @arthur_affect and
Oh so it was as bad as I remembered then.
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Replying to @solitaryrainbow @CanisLupus1365 and
Also a Being being “‘any creature that has sufficient intelligence to understand the laws of the magical community and to bear part of the responsibility in shaping those laws’.” Sounds like ableism to me...
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Replying to @solitaryrainbow @CanisLupus1365 and
Oh look, she was always like this and it was this blatant.pic.twitter.com/Kfvd8Duk7e
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Replying to @solitaryrainbow @CanisLupus1365 and
Yeah see this kind of thing is all over the books and at the time I thought it was just very dark satire about a hidebound bigoted society but now I wonder how much she saw it as satire herself Her POV in the end still seems to be that all of it is necessary
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Replying to @arthur_affect @solitaryrainbow and
Remus Lupin's life is hell due to bigotry but then hey it turns out Fenrir Greyback is real and is just as bad as all the stories say So wow I guess it's really tragic for Lupin but you can't blame the parents for wanting to protect their kids Sucks but that's how it's gotta be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @solitaryrainbow and
I hear this exact sentiment from TERFs so much "I'm sure there are many wonderful people who are transsexual and I empathize greatly with their struggle But when it comes to children, safeguarding is paramount" Fucking A
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JK Rowling ends up defending the Wizard version of Section 28 even as she gives us a tragic heartbreaking story of someone's life being ruined by it So sorry, chap, had to be done Parents have to put their children first, you know how it is, there's real monsters out there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @solitaryrainbow and
She probably voted for it in real life That smirking disingenuous liberal mask floating atop a seething cauldron of bigotry and bile Fuck her
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Replying to @arthur_affect @solitaryrainbow and
That implies that Tonks and Lupin dying and thus their kid becoming an orphan was because they were degenerates, him a werewolf and her marrying one. And it was just "safer" that way. Not anything sort of narrative relation to Harry being an orphan.
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