Cloaked canoodling, article on racism in SMH

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 31553

Cornflower:
> Some fanfic folks might like to explore what unique uses James and 
Lily may have found for the invisibility cloak...I'm not gonna touch 
that one though. :)

Now *this* is masterly.  Crafty stuff, Cornflower - I can see it would take more than a snarling Snape to keep you down (er, up?)...!

CMC:
> here's an oped from the Sydney morning Herald decrying both JKR - and that malefactor Tolkien - as racist 
> screeds (not to mention pro-globalization).
Cornflower:
> JK Rowlings goes so far to work in these issues, I only hope she 
doesn't read this guy's crap. What a little Skeeter he is.

Actually, I think he *means* well, he's just making the crucial mistake of coming up with his point first and his evidence second.  There *is* arguably some in Tolkien, so of course he needs to show that there's some in Harry as well, no popular culture fantasy story is allowed to be innocent of the terrible stain of racism, so right, ermmm, where's my long-handled spoon so I can scrape the bottom of the barrel for some straws... er... er... aha!  Wizard ancestry, yup, that'll do.

As an Australian journalist, he might have done better to pick on a few other media I can think of for racism... the newspapers' typical take on Muslim women, for a start.  Or the presentation of the refugee crisis.  Or the representation of non-Anglos on Australian TV.  Of course, that wouldn't be nearly as exciting as picking on all those fantasy films Corrupting Our Kids, now, would it?

Tabouli.






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