keshetchai:treefrogsoup:I don’t know why you guys are upset because the racism imagery in Harry Pott
keshetchai:treefrogsoup:I don’t know why you guys are upset because the racism imagery in Harry Potter is about a subtle as fucking Zootopia. There’s slurs, there’s arguments about “blood purity”, The bad guys run about with their faces covered and commit domestic terrorism, and that’s before things get bad. Hell, JK Rowling even said that the blood thing was a metaphor for being mixed race.After that, the death eaters and lord Voldamort take over the Ministry of Magic from Cornelius Fudge (Who JK states was based of Neville Chamberlain) and the nazi parallels spike. Registration, Rigged trials, out right dismissal of muggle born wizards/witches being wizards/witches, being sent to the faux-German sounding prison called Nurmengard…and yet WEIRDLY the fact that goblins-as-bankers is a wildly antisemitic trope didn’t occur to JKRthe visuals she approved didn’t help either -- source link