[HPforGrownups] Re: Racist! Draco (was Fred and George: The bullies you know)

[Saitaina]

No: HPFGUIDX 43096

Darrian (who made a lot of good points but anyway) wrote:

<I find I'm repeating myself. It is racist because it is attacking a 
person's heritage. A person cannot control who their parents are. I 
am making a leap, but it is not a long one here. I feel like I'm 
playing a semantic game here, so I will put it this way.

If you need to call Draco something else besides a racist, then do 
so. But please, let us not pretend that removing him from the burden 
of such a negatively connotated word -- one I've not chosen 
carelessly -- somehow lightens his sins.

If you need elitism instead of racism, fair enough, but please 
remember, Draco openly advocates the murder of those he feels 
inferior to them. >

I do need to call it elitism instead of racism because I just can't see it that way.  I have said my piece and will bow out of the argument now as we both see two diffrent sides and it's a never ending argument.  You have made many strong points.  

Maybe as we see more of Draco in further books we will see further into his elitism/racism but right now I just can't agree with you're point of view.  Though it has been a fun debate.

Now to make this on topic and so I don't get yelled at, umm...hmm, something on topic...oh well, i tried, too late to think of anything.

Saitaina
who will now go and hide from the mods.



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