[HPforGrownups] Re: "M**blood" and handicap

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 106413

[Del wrote]:
| Then if we assume that indeed mudblood is the WW equivalent of
| nigger, wouldn't it indicate that it hides something else too ? Could
| it be that those purebloods who petition for Muggle-hunting to be made
| legal are actually the last representative of a much larger group in
| the past ?
|
| As I said in my previous posts, the reaction of the wizarding people
| to the insult smells of *guilty conscience* to me. Could it be that
| the WW (or a large portion of it) authorised or even encouraged some
| kind of horrible behaviour toward the Muggles in a not-so-removed past ?
|
| [Sherry responds]:
| I think you could very well be correct.  I don't have any
| illusions that the
| wizarding world has always been nice to muggles.  Perhaps, back
| in the days
| of the four founders, Gryffindor was very unusual in his support of muggle
| born students.  If the mud blood thing is supposed to represent
| racism, then
| I think there could very well be some not so pretty history behind it.

[Lee]:
Absolutely, I'd bet my last knut on that.

Whenever I see that scene in GOF at the QWC and the torture done to the
Roberts family, etc., my brain screams "KKK!"...or other such group.  Sadly,
prejudice is a hard, practically impossible beasty to kill.  If
something/someone doesn't meet the "standard norms" as declared by whatever
culture, things like this will happen despite best efforts to stamp it out.

Lee

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