On Wednesday, JK Rowling implied that Nazis never targeted trans people in Germany, calling it "a fever dream." She doubled down when challenged with sources showing trans persecution in Nazi Germany.
Not that anyone should be surprised, but the TERF Supreme now agrees with nazis.
Eh, I think the HP story wouldn’t need her involvement anymore. There are some slight problems in the world, yeah, but aside from the goblins and the house-elves, the books aren’t that problematic so readapting them shouldn’t pose much of an issue, imo.
Also, I don’t think people are talking about Tolkien having been that progressive. His world is fairly well known for bioesssentialism (all orcs are bad, all elves are good, all dwarves are greedy, etc).
They sort of tried getting out of that mold with Rings of Power and it wasn’t received too well. (Although I like the show.)
Every ethnic character in the books is a horrible joke, are there even Latinos or Spanish people in those books or movies? I’m glad they aren’t cause if there was a Latino wizard he’d be called Jose jalapeno, and wears a poncho and hat while shooting fire from his mustache
I mean, I know what you mean. (Cho Chang isn’t impossible as a romanisation of a Chinese name but then her first name would be Chang iiuc).
However, the Sean Finnegan having a “proclivity for pyrotechnics” is completely from the movies. It’s not anywhere in the books. So that’s one stereotype that has — if you’ll forgive the pun — been blown out of proportion.
“Are there even Latinos or Spanish people in those books” is a very American thing to say. First off, because “latin people” already includes Spain, as its not just Latin America, it’s also Latin Europe.
That being said there aren’t that many descriptions of ethnicity either. It’s not something that people speak about as much as I think they do in the States. We don’t have such a segregated history, and Britain has historically distained the American segregation thing. (When in WWII some GI Joes complained about having to drink in the same bar as black soldiers, the Brits said OK and threw out the white guys. The whole thing escalated into an actual bout of infighting with weapons.)
I mean, Hermione’s description could fit a black girl, but JKR didn’t write her as one (despite the tweet of her “approving the idea”). There is at least one instance in which something is described that shows her to be rather white. I don’t remember the specific sentence now though.
So yeah, fuck JKR, but the books really aren’t that racist or bad. There are some problems yeah, but nothing like the hateful garbage JKR has devolved into.
Eh, I think the HP story wouldn’t need her involvement anymore. There are some slight problems in the world, yeah, but aside from the goblins and the house-elves, the books aren’t that problematic so readapting them shouldn’t pose much of an issue, imo.
Also, I don’t think people are talking about Tolkien having been that progressive. His world is fairly well known for bioesssentialism (all orcs are bad, all elves are good, all dwarves are greedy, etc).
They sort of tried getting out of that mold with Rings of Power and it wasn’t received too well. (Although I like the show.)
Every ethnic character in the books is a horrible joke, are there even Latinos or Spanish people in those books or movies? I’m glad they aren’t cause if there was a Latino wizard he’d be called Jose jalapeno, and wears a poncho and hat while shooting fire from his mustache
I mean, I know what you mean. (Cho Chang isn’t impossible as a romanisation of a Chinese name but then her first name would be Chang iiuc).
However, the Sean Finnegan having a “proclivity for pyrotechnics” is completely from the movies. It’s not anywhere in the books. So that’s one stereotype that has — if you’ll forgive the pun — been blown out of proportion.
“Are there even Latinos or Spanish people in those books” is a very American thing to say. First off, because “latin people” already includes Spain, as its not just Latin America, it’s also Latin Europe.
That being said there aren’t that many descriptions of ethnicity either. It’s not something that people speak about as much as I think they do in the States. We don’t have such a segregated history, and Britain has historically distained the American segregation thing. (When in WWII some GI Joes complained about having to drink in the same bar as black soldiers, the Brits said OK and threw out the white guys. The whole thing escalated into an actual bout of infighting with weapons.)
I mean, Hermione’s description could fit a black girl, but JKR didn’t write her as one (despite the tweet of her “approving the idea”). There is at least one instance in which something is described that shows her to be rather white. I don’t remember the specific sentence now though.
So yeah, fuck JKR, but the books really aren’t that racist or bad. There are some problems yeah, but nothing like the hateful garbage JKR has devolved into.