Prejudice

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 70481

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Random <random832 at r...> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 04:58 America/Indianapolis, naamagatus 
> wrote:
> 
> > Also, the precise etymology of "mudblood" is unimportant. The mere
> > fact that in the Potterverse it is the equivalent to "nigger" in 
the
> > US, should make it very clear what type of people are using it.
> 
> Whoa, there... Who said anything about it being equivalent to 
anything 
> anywhere? I did _not_ get the impression that it was anywhere near 
that 
> harsh... it's said that it's "the worst thing" you can say to one, 
but 
> that's on a relative scale to all the (unknown) not-as-bad-as-that 
> thing; it's possibly they simply don't have words as strong as 
n*****. 
> in any case, the "dirty blood" translation seemed _very_ suspect to 
> me.


Based on the outrage that *everybody* expresses every time anybody 
uses the term "mudblood", *I* say that it is the Potterverse 
equivalent to "nigger." 

And I don't understand on what you base your suspicion of the "dirty 
blood" explanation. It is the only one given to us in the books, 
after all. 


Naama