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[–] snowe@programming.dev -3 points 10 months ago (61 children)

Since they clearly have no interest in actually having a discourse maybe you should explain what they’re saying, because it’s absolutely not clear at all.

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (45 children)

ok fine, i'll try and be as clear as possible

sometimes things are bad and are bad at their core (both because they financially support someone who is doing so much to make the world more transphobic than it already is and also all the antisemitism, racism, classism, misogyny, transphobia, and just plain old bad writing decisions at the core of the story) and we just need to let go and stop participating in the fandom because it inevitably leads to people saying shit like "oh i can just buy this harry potter game even though i know jkr sucks and this gives money to her that she will use to fund bigotry, it belongs to the the fans now!" when it doesn't, as long as jkr is alive it's her space and spending time in it will eventually lead to money making its way over to her!!!

and the game itself is bad because it's about the goblins, who have long been noted to be fairly antisemitic caricatures in harry potter, being swarthy hooked nosed creatures who run the banks, have a long history of pogroms being run on them, have different moral values around ownership (very similar to accusations of judeo bolshevism) and have a literal star of david as their symbol in the films. and in this game they kidnap children for ritual purposes which is just straight up blood libel

if you still aren't sure what's antisemitic here and you somehow aren't a bad faith poster, look up judeo bolshevism, look up blood libel, look up images of antisemitic caricatures and compare them to descriptions of goblins in harry potter. there are so many antisemitic tropes in there it's impossible to imagine no one was aware

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The house elfs also want to free their race from slavery perpetrated by humans, and that makes them bad guys because in HP lore they « are happy with servitude » and « it’s natural for them ».

In the books, Hermione is made fun of by the narrator and the characters for suggesting that house elfs should be freed.

And Harry at some point gets his own house elf slave but the story never paint it as a bad thing because « he is a good master so it’s ok ».

There is no universe where this isn’t slavery apologia.

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

yeah the last line of the last book (before the epilogue) is harry thinking "gee, i sure hope my slave brings me a sandwich," as he lounges in bed. i didn't talk about the house elf stuff because my focus was on the goblins but it's just as, if not more, rancid and evil. many such bits in the books, rita skeeter was really the first sign of jkr's transphobia

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