[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: HP related bumper sticker

[kemper mentor]

Haggrid wrote:
I remember the very real hooro sxpressed in a chatroom when the 
word "Mudblood" was used.  It apparantly had assumed all the 
emotional force of th "N-word".  I think that, analogously, 
a "Republicans for Voldemort bumper sticker is a clever but cruel item, much as a "Republicans for Hitler" would be.


Kemper writes:  It is nothing like "Republicans for Hitler."  Voldemorte is character in fantasy fiction.  Voldemorte did not saction the destruction of Jewish Europe.  To say it is the same is to say "Holocaust never happened" or "Aushwitz was a spa."  That is cruel.  


Haggrid continues:  I believe in free speech.  We Americans have indulged in political vituperation since the time of Hamilton and Jefferson.  I think that vile attacks will rebound back on the perpetrators, in a backlash of the inherently fair American citizen.  I do believe, however, that the maker of this sticker is not merely being clever.  You might just as well have a bumpersticker, "Percy flip flops too-- vote Kerry" or "They said Pettigrew was a hero too-- vote Kerry".  Do these not raise sronger feelings in you, the HP fan, than you would otherwise 
expect?

Kemper writes:
"Republicans for Voldemort" is funny.  And so is your "Pettigrew flipped-flopped."  Seriously, you should put that on a bumpersticker or t-shirt.  I like "Dumbledore votes Green" (not particularly funny, but...) as well as "Quiditch moms for Democrats."  
 
 

		
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