1. People point out that Harry Potter is traditional and right-wing. It is set in a boarding school, it’s aristocratic, concerns magic, and is obsessed with bloodlines(!). Yet, it is beloved by the liberal left. Why?
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2. The answer is that Harry Potter does as James Bond and most Western action films do (esp. comic books & war films). It takes ideas of elitism, honour, and violence and uses them to defend liberal or democratic values.
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3. This is in line with liberal elitism, of course. Liberal conceive themselves as an elite that draws more and more people up through education. It is just a “good elite” that can use violence and hierarchy in a safe way.
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4. Thus, though Potter’s world is ostensibly a very rightist, the “bad guys” are recognisably Nazis—they are too obsessed with blood purity, and so Rowling’s world is ideologically perfect from a liberal elitist perspective, viz...
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5. A liberal elite uses its hierarchy and violent potential against a more wicked elite (usually Nazi, but sometimes Marxist-Leninist). This is apparent in James Bond and most popular entertainments. The war is always against the “eternal Nazi”.
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6. This is partly why left liberal are so annoying and smug. They believe that they are the “nicest” elite in history, and they also deny their own violent and hierarchical natures (their hypocrisy) which they claim to be working against.
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7. Left liberalism of this nature is based on the idea that there is a hierarchy, but that the hierarchy should be giving away more to other people and helping them (in this respect Jordan Peterson is merely a proto-SJW; he thinks the redistribution should be different).
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8. But we’ve reached the stage where left liberalism wants to kill the golden goose. It wants to do away with the original vanguard element and let that vanguard become a despised minority—although it has made this move about two decades too soon ideologically.
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