Yeah, those things are in the book, and it is good that people talk about it, and we can even even make memes/jokes about it on this community!
It doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be a community to make fun of dumbledore’s favouritism or a tiramisu that looks like a sorting hat…
I don’t know… Should we just forget about stuff? When I grew up there was kind of a lot of casual homophobia, racism and stuff (and it’s not entirely gone). I think it is healthy not to forget how things were and see how we progressed. I do not want to glorify the parts of HP that are bad in the ways that you so well enumerated. But I don’t think it is healthy to forget the entire thing. Remember fondly the parts that can be, and see with a better understanding the parts that cannot.
I now rarely think about HP. As previously said, there are a lot of other things to experience. The same way that I rarely think about my childhood, because there is so much to experience rn.
Everything will be forgotten in time. Such is the relentless turning of the clock. I don’t believe in censorship, but I do think that we should be mindful of how we engage in preservation. A Lemmy instance is not a museum. Let Harry Potter be interned in dusty mausoleums, to be remembered mindfully. There is nothing mindful about the original post here. Memes are living, breathing culture. Slay the beast.
Yeah, those things are in the book, and it is good that people talk about it, and we can even even make memes/jokes about it on this community! It doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be a community to make fun of dumbledore’s favouritism or a tiramisu that looks like a sorting hat…
Yes there shouldn’t be. Harry Potter should be forgotten.
I don’t know… Should we just forget about stuff? When I grew up there was kind of a lot of casual homophobia, racism and stuff (and it’s not entirely gone). I think it is healthy not to forget how things were and see how we progressed. I do not want to glorify the parts of HP that are bad in the ways that you so well enumerated. But I don’t think it is healthy to forget the entire thing. Remember fondly the parts that can be, and see with a better understanding the parts that cannot.
I now rarely think about HP. As previously said, there are a lot of other things to experience. The same way that I rarely think about my childhood, because there is so much to experience rn.
Everything will be forgotten in time. Such is the relentless turning of the clock. I don’t believe in censorship, but I do think that we should be mindful of how we engage in preservation. A Lemmy instance is not a museum. Let Harry Potter be interned in dusty mausoleums, to be remembered mindfully. There is nothing mindful about the original post here. Memes are living, breathing culture. Slay the beast.