Appropriate terminology

punkieshazam punkieshazam at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 20 07:25:26 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 89182

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> > The post by punkieshazam (88875) pricked my conscience.
> 
> <snip humorous pc replacements for common wizarding terms>
> 
> Annemehr:
> 
> Yeah, okay, that was funny.
> 
> But I'm going to agree with punkie's assertion that we shouldn't
> ordinarily call muggle-borns "mudbloods."  It leads to imprecision 
of
> thought.  

Punkie:

If you go to the Quik Quotes section of the Leaky Cauldron and read 
at length you will find that JKR has spent much of her life working 
for and with human rights organizations. Thus S.P.E.W. among other 
things. Mr Arrowsmith's comments are very clever and they miss the 
mark of what I was trying to say. Let me be *very* explicit.

I am an elderly American. I was born in the '30s. (I will be 68 in 
March). Until approximately 150 years ago, my government condoned 
slavery. We as a society are still having to deal with the issues 
that grew out of that travisty. However, we have made a little 
progress in these matters and not even the worst bigot ordinarily 
uses the word N****r in polite society anymore. When I read Ron's 
reaction to Malfoy's use of mudblood in Cos I equated it with N****r. 
Mudblood is a vile epithet. Describing Harry as a mudblood is a vile 
social transgression.

Sorry if I'm a cranky old woman, but I'm a cranky old woman about 
epithets.

Punkie

Petunia is a squib!





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