Thoughts about this issue?
Considering all the virtue signaling she did before, it's weird her subjects now attack her.
http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/family/article/2016/03/09/jk-rowling-faces-backlash-cultural-appropriation-new-book-north-american-magic
>Beloved author J.K Rowling has announced "a series of new writing", however several fans are less than pleased about it, claiming the series profits on cultural appropriation.
>The series, titled History of Magic in North America, takes a look at mythology from the Native American communities.
>>7791310
Meh.
>>7791314
I guess yeah, strictly speaking it's of little importance alone. Just another example of the fickle and volatile nature of the progressive crowd to add to the list.
literally don't care about either side
DUDE TWITTER COMMENTS LMAO
>>7791319
Yeah, it seems as if this kind of thinking is just trying to deny the reality of the glonalized world that we live in. What's next? That I can't talk about sushi because I'm not from Japan? It's just stupid.
I agree, it's gratuitously appropriating a society's complex and long lasting traditional culture to add a bit of spice into your otherwise bland pulp novel.
I just don't care.
>the Native American culture
>>7791332
This, every fucking piece of fiction does it. Harry Potter does it with European folklore and other oddities.
Most 'high brow' literature pieces do it with Hellenic tradition, or Biblical foundations.
Every piece of fantasy fiction you've ever read has taken aspects of other cultures and twisted them towards the Author's intent. This is just what happens.
I think these people took the 'write what you know' meme way too seriously
>>7791327
yeah the glonalized world is fucked up
>When authors use other cultures in their fictional stories with out respect or consideration. They feed racism and oppression, hurting POC
POC don't give a fuck, does she really thing Abawale Ngongo from Cameroon really cares about some shitty fantasy author using his river deity as an inspiration for the fantasy book's fantasy river god?
>>7791334
What's the implication? That no such thing exists.
>>7791350
>SJWs treating PoC as any thing other than children
>>7791310
Under this same logic, Gaiman's American Gods appropriates a huge amount of Scandanavian culture.
>>7791357
If only Gaiman would have done anything with these other cultures... that was just the story equivalent of name-dropping, progressing the story by having more deities appear
>>7791310
So wait a second, their arguement is that Rowling can't write about native american culture because she doesn't get it since she's not a part of this group, right?
Simply doing some research and reading about this stuff (what Rowling probably did) is itself a fruitless endeavour and basically culturally appropriation since a person believes that after reading about other cultures (especially if it's written by members of these cultures), he/she will now understands more or less exactly what's going on in the heads of these people. Following the SJW logic this would mean that we can even only read about what we are only truly familiar with, right?
Wouldn't that mean that white SJW should only read things written by white authors (mainly old white men)? And PoC SJW have no right to criticize these old white men since they can never truly understand them?
Or am I getting it all wrong somehow?
>>7791310
see this is what happens when you throw your lot in with the race traitors
>>7791351
Not him but I'm assuming he's pointing out that there was never a unified "Native American" culture as they were a diverse group of different tribes and ethnicities.
>>7791373
That wouldn't comply to progressive stack.
>>7791373
I think there's a distinction made between appreciating a culture (reading it's literature) and "appropriation" -- i.e dressing in costume or incorporating facsimiles of that culture into your own work.
>>7791383
> "appropriation" -- i.e dressing in costume or incorporating facsimiles of that culture into your own work
Like when non-white people dress in suits for example? And they even do it in real life, much more insidious and evil than do just put it in a book.
>>7791384
Yes, that's cultural appropriation. Why it doesn't apply to non whites I'm not sure. If you google around I'm sure you'll find some amazing mental gymnastics as to why they can do it but we can't.
>>7791387
Perhaps that shows how benign the idea of cultural appropriation is.
>>7791388
>>7791383
So the argument would be "I like it, I just don't understand it"? And the other way around "I don't like it, I just don't understand it"? How is this even a thing?
>>7791390
okie dokie thanks for clearing that up bye now
>>7791395
Not to be mean, but you should pretty affected. With what? That's the mystery.
>>7791393
>How is this even a thing?
Is intersectional feminism being utterly irrational new to you? It's the only ideology on either sides of the political spectrum I can think of that just flat out doesn't make sense.
>>7791388
I wrote the longer one, probably the one you consider bad. No problem but where is the mistake in my post? I really have a heard time to get these mental gymnastics.
lmao white people on twitter don't represent native cultures
>>7791403
b-but I'm not a white shitlord! I'm 1/32 cherokee!
>>7791399
Where I live Feminism isn't really an issue, you don't see it in daily life. I only ever hear about it on the Internet every once in a while and I'm not actively looking for it here. Mind you, I'm talking about this new PC SJW feminism wave that's been going going on lately. I'm familiar with the older movements (and I even agree with a lot of it) but this new thing just doesn't make any sense to me.
>>7791406
>this new thing just doesn't make any sense to me
People want validation and money. Twitter and Patreon are a thing. 1+1 is 2.
Any established, successful figure who takes the side of this manifestation of liberalism is a fool, to be honest. These people don't even try to hide that their conscientious concern is a thin disguise for their hostility to anyone deemed more successful than themselves. Of course they jumped at the chance to tear down JK Rowling, rich and successful. It's fitting, however, because the Harry Potter series was her as a single mother on benefits doing the exact same to the establishment around her. These people will never be satisfied, and anyone who tries might as well have an argument with a woman on her period.
B-B-BUT SHE SAID HERDIESHA GRAQUAN WAS BLACK
HOW COULD THEY TURN ON HER LIKE THIS
"cultural appropriation" has got to be the most bullshit concept ever, it's so stupid it makes my head spin how some people can actually not only believe it but try to enforce it as a rule.
good im glad theyre turning against that dotty bitch (smirks) what a pleb
>>7791425
but enough about 4chan
>>7791454
:-)
>>7791319
>progressive crowd
that's just how they like to see themselves, but they're just crybabies insinuating that other people commit thoughtcrimes, and their essentialism is just reactionary
>>7791310
>@NativeAprops
Imagine bitching about muh heritage all day, every day.
>>7791454
I don't think it's applicable to 4chan unless I hate niggers is a conscientious concern. There's no disguise, just hostility. It's better and it's beautiful.
>>7791341
>Most 'high brow' literature pieces do it with Hellenic tradition, or Biblical foundations.
This. The death-knell to SJWs will be SJWs. It won't happen soon but the left will eventually attack other leftists to such a hysteric pitch that it will seem impossible to please their own "people" and the whole ethos will fall into despondency and disillusion. It happened a few decades ago with the hippies and it'll happen again here.
>>7791517
Perhaps the recent surge of support for pedophilia among SJWs will make their ideology less appealing.
>>7791517
I agree with the general idea but I also think it's wrong to equate "the left" with SJWs.
They're not "the left", they're edgy privileged kids with a political opinion.
>>7791520
>They're not "the left"
If they personally consider themselves politically aligned with the left then they are part of the left. The left isn't this one contingency of people, obviously, but don't try to lie and take them out of the picture to better suit your own ends. Not only are "SJWs" almost exclusively part of the left but these days they are the most vocal part of it.
>>7791536
Sure but by this reasoning I could call myself right wing and then add "oh and by the way I eat babies"
This wouldn't mean that "the right" eats babies or even tarnish its image just because of one idiot (me)
So why smear the name of the left with these mongoloids' ravings? I don't necessarily agree with leftism but I'd rather we discussed, say, Chomsky vs Heidegger than some random tumblrina sperging out about rowling of all fuckin things.
>>7791550
This might be the dumbest "reasoning" I've come across on this board in quite some time.
You should probably stop posting.
>>7791561
Eh, I can see his point, you just don't have a counter-argument
"SWJ"s are a minor thing on the internet and some US universities, the real world is elsewhere
>>7791582
I'm not the poster you're responding to there. The analogy the previous poster makes, however, where he likens the association of social justice warriors and the left to someone who eats a baby who happens to identify as a right winger shows a worrying lack of cognitive ability, and if you think there's no counter argument to it, you also are fucking stupid. There's no way in which you can disentangle the social justice mindset from its development in left wing thought.
>>7791608
I was not arguing that the SJW are not left, just that they are an irrelevant and extremistic part of it and shouldn't therefore taken as an example of the overall "leftist" thought.
Kind of like /pol/ doesn't represent the right (thank God for that)
>skin walker stories
>reality
My fucking sides.
It's hilarious that people get so buttmad over some stupid british shlock artist mixing her fictional world with theirs.
>People mad that an author took interest in a culture other than their own and explored it in their writing.
>Things every author has been doing from the beginning of time.
>They think it's inherently wrong to attempt empathizing with an alien culture.
The bottom line is that everything depends on how its handled. Rowling didn't do anything in poor taste. They're the same batch of millennial cry babies whose hobby it is to find new ways to complain about society. If anyone took this kind of think seriously, we'd all live inside our own bubbles and never bother to empathize with anyone else because we could never truly know what it meant to be them.
Is there a word for snowflake syndrome disguised as social activism? I really feel like there should be at this point.
>>7791406
where do you live
>>7791616
>damage control
left wing apologia ahoy
>>7791677
>Is there a word for snowflake syndrome disguised as social activism?
The soft bigotry of low expectations? For example affirmative action etc.
>acknowledging the existence and customs of cultures other than western european ones is raciss and not allowed
imagine being that fucking stupid
imagine being so retarded and having such a weak grasp of reality you come to that conclusion
>>7791677
>Is there a word for snowflake syndrome disguised as social activism?
Crybully comes close
>>7791393
I don't know what arguments are made, but a difference would be that reading a book about a culture doesn't interfere with it while writing a book can colour peoples views and expectations.
>>7791518
>he recent surge of support for pedophilia
Is this that gamergate thing were they dug up some old edgy 4chan comments or is it something else?
>>7791345
It is. I respect kinks, but when a practice such as glonal becomes so common that people can talk about openly like it's completely normal and not even edgy it means that sexual liberation has gone too far.
>>7791731
You're probably misrepresenting the case about the woman from Nintendo's marketing team making pro-pedophilia tweets. Intentional misrepresentation in trying to appeal cool and disinterested? Or just stupidity?
Anyway, that's not what I meant, I meant articles like
http://www.cbc.ca/firsthand/features/four-misconceptions-about-pedophiles
>>7791741
>the woman from Nintendo's marketing team making pro-pedophilia tweets.
I have to see this.
Did she lose her job over it?
>>7791741
>tweets
The thing I was talking about definitely involved old 4chan comments. No idea if it's the same thing as you're talking about.
>trying to appeal cool and disinterested? Or just stupidity?
Do you seriously mean that being genuinely uninterested in gator stuff means you're stupid?
>>7791750
Then you probably meant something completely different that I did. And yeah, you're right, Gamergate was always pointless, game journalism being shitty and colluding with developers was obvious years before it. So many cases existed years before.al
>>7791749
Seems like not yet, it's not in the news. Just stuff like this
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/nintendo-urged-fire-woman-centre-7464276
and Kotaku defending her and calling her a victim
http://kotaku.com/the-ugly-new-front-in-the-neverending-video-game-cultur-1762942381
>>7791751
>http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/nintendo-urged-fire-woman-centre-7464276
>Rapp, who wears a ring through her nose
>Now anger has boiled over onto social media, with one furious parent
Journalism is dead
>>7791756
I mean, her argument is sound -
>"Child pornography is not the the cause of societal ills regarding children and its total eradication should not be considered a solution to these ills," she added.
Mirror, what a shitrag
>>7791310
What? So if someone were to use Greek mythology as a framework for a story, is that cultural appropriation?
Fucking people have nothing better to do than complain. Read the books, if you notice some sort of tie to your own culture, just enjoy it. Its not like Rowling is going onto reservations, taking part in some ceremony while shitting all over the place. Fucking self centred people
>>7791763
>What? So if someone were to use Greek mythology as a framework for a story, is that cultural appropriation?
Strictly speaking. But noone would complain about it, since Greece is a white country and Ancient Greece is the cradle of Western civilization - the source of all evil in the world. SJWs only complain when non-whites are involved.
>>7791763
>cultural appropriation?
This is something these discussions (from pro and contra) *always* get wrong, it's right there in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article!
>According to authors in the field, cultural (mis)appropriation differs from acculturation or assimilation in that the "appropriation" or "misappropriation" refers to the adoption of these cultural elements in a colonial manner: elements are copied from a minority culture by members of the dominant culture, and these elements are used outside of their original cultural context—sometimes even against the expressed, stated wishes of representatives of the originating culture.
Americans shitting on the Natives and then wearing their ceremonial headgear when getting white guy wasted: cultural appropriation, where all of this started
a worn-out British woman taking elements from another unrelated culture for her story: nothing
someone starting with the Greeks: nothing, they're gone
>>7791771
Hmm interesting. This could prove usueful.
>>7791771
>it's right there in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article!
You do realize that wiki isn't the language god right?
>>7791310
>that incoherent use of gaslit
>>7791310
There are 7 billion people on this planet. A handful of them are always gonna be there to say stupid shit.
>>7791379
Rowlings barely spent time in America.
The "new schools in different parts of the world!" Honestly feels like something 13 year old me would have come up with for my dungeons and dragons game.
Having the native Americans magical tradition be separate from the "no-maj" is really shitty. "Oh, your actual beliefs? Haha nah that's con-men telling you lies lmao"
I honestly don't think that Rowling understands America at all. It's an exciting setting for her fiction, but unlike Gaiman she's never spent time in America without being pampered. She should give the license to write in the setting to locals. Harry Potter was immensely British. Rowling doesn't have the capacity to write a non-British story
>>7791682
In Russia
>>7791310
Complete horseshit.
Fuck SJWs.
>>7791767
greece is also the cradle of the mediterranean civilization as a whole, including the arabic civilization... aka brownies. maybe when SJW's realise this they will attack any sort of "cultural appropriation" of greek culture :D
>>7791310
It absolutely is not weird they are attacking. The offended olympics is competitive. The more seemingly politically correct something is, the more points for getting offended
>>7791864
But doesn't this mean that the inevitable conclusion is that the SJW movement will cannibalize itself by getting mad offended at each other until everybody but them just stops caring?
I think it already started.
>>7791874
>the SJW movement
>>7791878
What, they're not a movement?
>>7791884
No more than edgelords are a movement.
>>7791518
There's no such surge of support.
You'll see much more pedophilia apologia among far right traditionalists, like those common on parts of this website.
the puritan ethic strikes back
>>7791897
One article doesn't make a surge.
>>7791901
Those are 2.
https://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/im_a_pedophile_but_not_a_monster/
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/30/im_a_pedophile_youre_the_monsters_my_week_inside_the_vile_right_wing_hate_machine/
3 and 4 from last year. Well, it starts slow.
>>7791384
The belief is that adopting the dominant paradigm is not appropriation, because if you don't adopt Western dress you can't succeed in business.
White people wearing Native American headdresses for shits and giggles isn't comparable, and ignorant appropriation can mischaracterize cultural practices and harm the originating culture.
That said, I don't see how this Rowling example is very harmful. She's not attempting to represent Native American traditions any more than the books attempted to represent English occult traditions.
>>7791897
But that isn't promoting pedophilia. It's opposing the harassment of a journalist for expressing her opinion.
Generally, those who believe that animated child porn SHOULD be banned are social leftists. The same goes for all anti-pornography movements.
>>7791351
Native American culture was destroyed the minute they were 'discovered' by Europeans
>>7791913
I consider myself a leftist on social issues and I don't believe any porn should be banned, in fact we might be in need of new forms of porn.
>>7791954
Sweeping generalization.
I think >>7791379 has a point, saying "Native American culture" is like saying "European culture" without differentiating between say, Germany and France.
>>7791536
>If they personally consider themselves politically aligned with the left then they are part of the left.
literally identity politics
Is it the destiny of the Left to eat itself? Rowling is by all measures a good goy SJW but even her own self-flagellation on Twitter about Black Hermione and Gay Dumbledore and Transgender-Otherkin Hagrid isn't enough to satisfy the diversity police.
>>7791771
So it's just the "Black people can't be racist"/"Women can't be sexist" shit again, isn't it?
It must be awfully comfortable to claim that 1) oppression is always systemic, 2) you're the only person qualified to identify systems, 3) you're magically always on the victim side of the system's spectrum, and have people believe you.
>>7792388
>if I say it's a meme, it's not true!
>>7792336
The Left can't eat itself all the way through because communists can come in and say, 'We're more leftist than you are, you identity politics trash! Don't you see, the ruling class is blinding you! Not White Power, not Black Power, but Workers' Power! Hurrah!!!' etc.
Well, it seems that by this same logic we brazilians predated them as well by proxy, since our "school" is based on Incas etc and we never had Incas or big amerindian civilization.
who the fuck cares?
Take this to /pol/
>>7791310
Native Indian: "Grandpa, a white woman wrote a fictional book using elements of our culture"
"go hunt child, we need to eat today"
this is what would happen if native indians were still native indians. Btw, many native americans/indians wore western style clothes after they were "discovered" by white man. What horrible cultural appropriators.
>>7791517
It's been happening the whole time. They eat each other. Sjwism is a continuation of the same patterns that sparked witch hunts hundreds of years ago and McCarthyism more recently.
>>7791310
Cannibalism is common in uncivilised peoples, makes sense that they'd turn on someone trying to appeal to them.
>>7791904
That makes a lot of assumptions about culture and its value that I'm not sure if o can accept.
this is what can happen to anybody who panders to SJW culture. the ideology is so schizophrenic, even if you are careful, you will fuck up. JKR probably thought she was doing right by the Injuns, and now she has to say sorry and ditch the project.
My thought is there can be more than one point of view.
#boom
>>7791332
>Ulysses did this
>>7791310
Good. She deserves it for trying so hard to pander to these retards in the first place.
>>7791771
>someone starting with the Greeks: nothing, they're gone
I kekked hard. But still kill yourself, smhtbhfam.
>>7793589
>to add a bit of spice
>>7791357
Its kinda weird how Gaiman gets a pass for "cultural appropriation", even though one of his most famous works is all about mixing and matching different cultures and mythologies.
>>7792432
>Don't you see, the ruling class is blinding you! Not White Power, not Black Power, but Workers' Power! Hurrah!!!' etc.
They tried that with Occupy Wall Street.
Didn't work out.
>>7793669
well
I was just parroting a literal communist slogan.
It'll probably work eventually.
>>7791913
>social leftists
what the fuck are you saying
What is it with twitter that makes people's opinions seem more important or newsworthy? If you told a reporter 5 people complained about this stupid issue they wouldn't care, but 5 twitter screencaps provoke an article.
Another example is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxukA5HAALI
If you called fox 10 and told them "I heard some college student say nigger" and they would tell you to stop wasting their time. But write it on twitter and they send a fucking camera crew to do a full interview? I just don't get it.
>>7791310
>virtue signaling
That you know this phrase is telling that you're out of touch with how life actually works.
Go out and explore the real world a while. Discover that you've got your head up the ass of academics and lunatic fringes. While you're out there, live a bit.
FUCK THE ROMANS FOR STARTING WITH THE GREEKS IN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
>>7791616
>I was not arguing that the SJW are not left, just that they are an irrelevant
Unfortunately they are not irrelevant. The loudest and most radical are them are, but their ideology is steadily manifesting in to many places. Boys of the ages twelve and up are excluded from Domestic Violence Shelters, for just a single example, because of the feminist widespread demonization of men. If you're being beaten by your spouse, you can't take your child with you to safety if he was born with the wrong gender.
Can we not put to rest this false idea of cultural appropriation once and for all. True Native Americans (insofar as there are such people, living in communes etc) do not give a shit about the authenticity of their culture.
What we all have to realise is this notion of authentic and "canonical" culture arises from our own western globalist culture and our own sense of alienation.
Indeed this conservationist attitude is so misguided that it is if anything more damaging than total cultural destruction. What these people would like for "natives" and "ethnics" is nothing less than idealised revisionist culture originating from within the perverse minds of our very own global capitalist culture and this is so toxic that death would be a better end. It is like saving a polar bear from a melting ice cap only to have it dance in a circus for peanuts.
NB, never post tweets or twitter users on /lit/ again, my body can handle only so much rage
>>7793748
How else would you call her making Dumbledore gay or Hermione black retroactively? It's pointless.
>>7791809
One reason they might have come up with this idea for the new movies is so Universal Studios can possibly, if things go very well with the new movies, build something like Epcot's World Showcase with a variety of restaurants, but it could also include rides and some other stuff.
>>7791616
There is no such thing as SJWs, its a teenage term used for people who have different opinions to the person using it, and come within a broad, vague range of opinions. In the old days it was Nazi, if you disagreed a teen would call you a Nazi. That went out of fashion as the teen zeitgeist changed from right to centre to left from the 80s though until now, where the internet has enabled multiple teen fashion words to exist within communities. You use the term becuase its easy, like niggers, pakis or mudslimes, to describe a set of people whose only true correlating feature is you dont like them so they need a general name to be called, makes you feel bigger and more powerful than them, the fear that they might be right and you would be proved a fool reduced. However "they" do the same to "your" kind, they are the same people really, teenagers wanting to be heard and so their opinions are strong and exaggerated to better heard above the crowd. This is why adults take no fucking notice of your opinions when you are young, they are generally wrong, based on emotion and "facts" learned from childhood, and are shallow from the lack of logic, reason and empathy that escapes us all realistically until our 30s.
>>7794196
too bad that's fucking wrong you tremendous dolt. an SJW is someone who, time and time again, gets mad about issues they dont truly understand. they are an identifiable group of people on the internet and you need to get over yourself
>>7794321
underage b&
>>7794326
I'm with >>7794321
SJW are just ignorant towards the views of other people, and even if they are wrong, they will rely on their feelings over their logic to resolve a situation.
>>7792088
>Sweeping generalization
Wanna expand on that, pal?
>>7791310
I honestly don't even begin to understand where they get the moral grounding for this. Traditions have been borrowing from each other since humanity began.
>>7794196
There's no such thing as Nazis. It's a teenage term used for people who have a different opinion, etc, etc, etc. That is pretty much what you are saying. Of course there are social justice warriors. There are people who identify themselves as champions of social justice, and its applicability is to people who do it primarily through complaining on the Internet. You're an idiot.
>>7793692
>It'll probably work eventually
it must work, comrade
>>7791771
>Americans shitting on the Natives and then wearing their ceremonial headgear when getting white guy wasted.
Ah I understand now, next time I'm getting shitfaced and wearing my ceremonial headgear, I'll do it the way the natives do it, drinking lysol instead of vodka.
>>7794450
How come Ho Chi Minh doesn't get to be in this picture?
>>7791517
>It won't happen soon
I believe the tide has turned. They are no longer a unified army (like the hippies were), but are now a bunch of scattered groups that cannot be pleased or placated.
The whining is dying.
>>7791517
They always turn on their own. Any slight slip from the most hardline interpretation of the ideology and they get eaten alive. That's part of why they're always trying to one-up each other on who can be the most ideologically purist - so that they can stay a step ahead of the baying horde (the other major reason is to bask in the kudos for taking ever-more-extreme positions).
Same kind of thing happens with hardline conservatives.
>>7791310
>Thoughts about this issue?
Can be summarized in "MUH FEELINGS". Nothing to see here, move along.
>>7793637
eaf
>>The series, titled History of Magic in North America, takes a look at mythology from the Native American communities.
I actually think that's a really cool idea, I would read that
SJWs are never ever happy. Spoiled kids looking for something to piss and moan about. They're trash and should be ignored and humiliated.
If you want to see authentic Native American magic give them a bottle of Listerine and a knife.
>>7791809
Or rather, she should have told that there are no Wizards in America at all. Case closed.
>>7791894
Salon's published multiple pedo apologist articles
CBC published an article defending celibate pedophiles
Multiple social justice activists defended a male to female transexual even after admit he was a pedophile
This isn't an isolated incident. There's no "far right boogeyman" anymore to blame it on. It's the hyper left sjw freaks.
>>7796196
race is a social construct unless you dont understand genetics
>>7796129
It basically amounts to a generic "Native religious practices are straight up magic" like Pocahontas and it defangs the concept of Skinwalkers by just making them Animagus and all the actual legends about people becoming cannibals and necrophiles to get that evil power are just stories madeup by butthurt non-magical Native medicine men.
>>7796868
This.
I hardly believe it myself but I'm siding with the butthurt SJWs on this one. The whole thing Rowling wrote was a really shitty, superficial treatment of pan-American Indian beliefs and practices, and you can tell she barely cares about actually learning the nature of shamanism, animism, witchcraft, and more in America, both among the Indians and among the various white/Euro communities here. Because, of course, that would take work, and why work for this thing she's just going to shit out for a quick buck?
Somebody post the macro of Bertrand Russell that rags on Anglo philosophers. It perfectly describes Rowling's mindset in writing this, just the laziest, most parochial whiggish bullshit.
>>7796880
Plus even outside the native stereotype stuff, the rest of the history is pretty much focused entirely around the New England states with the Salem Witch Trials as the defining event of American Wizarding culture and this whole conflict between wizards and Muggles that are well aware of magic escalates to a point where the Wizarding community in America is even more uptight segregated and isolated then magical Britain.
Why not just have the wizards move away from the Puritan populace? New Orleans, Utah or Oregon would all be good places for the magical community to set up camp. But no, instead of "Go West Young Wizard", the US counterpart to Hogwarts is apparently somewhere in upstate New York.
>>7796380
https://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/on-the-biology-of-race/
>>7791310
>it's weird her subjects now attack her
not really, that's what they do.
>>7798377
what?
>>7798383
I could write a fanfiction about Jesus sucking Wotan's cock and it wouldn't detract/ "delete", or otherwise culturally erase Christian and Scandinavian mythos
>>7796264
>an article defending celibate pedophiles
Well, are celibate pedos a bad thing?
>>7791356
This. The "liberators" are as oppressive as the "enemies" they're fighting.
In short, OP - it's stupid as fuck, but I'll be forced to care about it at some point.
Crybullies of everlasting misery, may they all bathe in scalding hot oil.
>>7791310
I love it when the left eats their own
