PC Little Red Riding Hood

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Schlobin at a... wrote:
> of course, the term politically correct was commissioned and paid
> for by the right wing in the U.S., marketed heavily, in order to 
> discredit all those who think that maybe, some people are in fact 
> oppressed.

And now, many people in positions of power claim to be the oppressed 
ones because their views are not as popular as they were in the past; 
views about why women and various minorities SHOULD be oppressed, not 
get the same opportunities, etc.  The same folks who have been 
talking about card-carrying members of the ACLU as though that's a 
BAD thing are now hiring lawyers with civil liberties experience to 
protect their right to say horrible things to people in places where 
they have no choice about being (such as school or commencement 
exercises).

I think that JKR is equating these folks with folks in the wizarding 
world who are obsessed with being pureblood and having certain 
privileges because of it.  They're the ones with the power and 
influence, but they're crying the blues because it's not PC to 
say "Mudblood" and talk about purity of race.  I don't doubt that 
Rowling is very close to bleeding-heart liberal Hermione, with whom 
she has said she identifies.  Perhaps that makes Hermione HER Mary 
Sue!  Is this way too on-topic now?  Or not enough off-topic?  Okay, 
I'll stop rambling and finish working on that review for Heidi...
(really Heidi, I promise!)

--Barb