The most famous forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism tend to focus on Jews, casting doubt, for example, on how many were exterminated in the camps. But denying the impact the Nazis had on the other groups they targeted, including queer and trans people, disabled people and Romani people, is still Holocaust denial. Maybe someone should tell J.K. Rowling.

  • @[email protected]
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    You’ve made a personal attack against the author of one book I consider not terribly bad.

    As far as the goblins not being antisemitic-

    Somebody wrote an article and I’m supposed to assume that person is right and I’m wrong?

    I’ll quote the title seen even in the link you provided - “HP goblins echo Jewish caricatures”. Have you considered even once that Jewish caricatures too did echo something aesthetically familiar? Or that the folklore I’m talking about grew intertwined with antisemitic beliefs?

    Medieval-style fairy-tales always touch this subject.

    And then this

    Did she do it intending to be antisemitic? I don’t know, but it hardly matters.

    and this

    Maybe I have the intelligence of a brick,

    form a syllogism.

    Yes, it definitely matters, because to get rid of each and every antisemitic or similar (“middleman minority” etc) stereotype manifesting itself unintentionally you’d simply have to burn European-cultured countries with nukes and start from scratch.

    Also I’m Jewish.

    • Flying Squid
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      Sorry… you’re insulting me because I besmirched J. K. Rowling’s honor? Are you her great protector?

      And I don’t care if you’re Jewish.

        • Flying Squid
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          1710 months ago

          Now you’re lying about not insulting me:

          You seem as intelligent as people who’d want to remove Nazis from movies about WWII (actually I’m not sure if I’ve met such specimen).

          If you are not a brick or just as intelligent, you’d see that.

        • @AbidanYre
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          1210 months ago

          my opinion weighs more than yours.

          No it doesn’t. Anyone can claim to be anything they want on the Internet.

            • @AbidanYre
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              610 months ago

              That’s what you’re claiming. Not what you’re claiming to be. Christ, you even suck at trolling.

              • @feedum_sneedson
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                110 months ago

                I can take over if necessary? I consider myself something of an expert.

                • @AbidanYre
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                  110 months ago

                  I’m kind of ready to move on with my life. But I’m also curious. What do you have to offer?

                  • @feedum_sneedson
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                    210 months ago

                    The moment has, regrettably, passed. I’m now studying Mandarin. I’m trolling myself, essentially - I highly recommend it.