Fred and George: The Bullies You Do Know

[Penny Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 43058

Hi --

I so completely agree with Elkins & Debbie -- I don't particularly like the Twins either and never have.  Glad to know I'm not in the complete minority on that one.  :--)

I don't have time for a full-blown response on this topic, but I did want to make a few quick points for now & will join in again more later:

Darrin said:

<<<<<<3) Draco is racist. I cannot put in any plainer than that. To 
apologize for Draco is to apologize for a stone-cold racist. 
Therefore, to credibly compare anyone to Draco is to necessarily 
prove that person or persons is also racist. Fred and George are not. 
They do not tinge their humor at anyone group in particular.>>>>>>>

Er. .... first off, could we have an "IMO" or a qualifier of some sort, Darrin?  <g>  There *are* listies who might disagree with your assertion that Draco is a racist & nothing more.  

In any case, it makes no sense logically to say that comparing anyone, on any level, to Draco means that you are saying that the other person being compared is also a racist.  That makes no sense to me.  Logically, this just doesn't work.

Darrin again:

<<<<<<<The pranks on Percy and Ginny have been taken to task as picking on 
weaker kids. Hold on, the twins put beetles in Bill's soup and 
constantly tweak their mother, so older sibling and authority figures 
are fair game as well. Thus endeth THAT argument.>>>>>>>>>>>

Just because they don't confine their pranks to younger, weaker victims doesn't make the pranks being pulled on the younger, weaker victims any less detestable or worthy of condemnation.  Again, it's an issue of logic.  Noone was saying that they *only* pick on younger & weaker kids; Elkins, IIRC, was merely stating that their pranks on younger kids were particularly distasteful to her.  I agree.  

Penny
(who has alot more to say but is out of time....)





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