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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I find it amazing that she can be so fucking tone deaf.
Like, wasn’t half of your entire best-selling series about equality/prejudice, you daft fucking terf?
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yes, but Hermione was one of the good ones and the system found her and elevated her.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 4 days ago
She basically store materials from all kinds of various books
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 4 days ago
no, the house elves loved being slaves and hermione was being hysterical for fighting for their rights.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
to be fair, some people see palestine action, or fighting for equality and think of us as hysterical.
sometimes things accidentally line up.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
The difference between Palestinians and house elves is that Palestinians don’t like being in a concentration camp that is constantly being bombarded by its guards.
House elves like being servile and the thing that struck Hermione the most is that many owners took advantage of their servitude by using them as a valve to live out their sadism. Hermione’s biggest flaw was that her goals were all over the place and it would have been better to just cross out the cruel treatment of the elves by pursuing a protection law similar to the law to “protect” muggles. Protect in quotes here because wizards and witches (especially the adult ones) are batshit fucking insane and care much more about their secrecy than the victims of the crime. Meddling with shit like health care and wages for house elves, which they don’t even want, is pointless.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Which is also amazing because she is simultaneously a target herself for being muggle-born.
Meanwhile in the real world, bigotry is still common among oppressed groups. See also: racism in LGBT communities.