[HPforGrownups] "Mudblood"

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 136427

Del wrote:
>Just a word of caution: "mudblood" is an insult, a racial slur. It is
>the equivalent of things like "nigger", and other such infamous terms.
>The correct term to use is "Muggleborn".
>
>I personally don't mind much, but I know some people on the list are
>extremely sensitive to such matters, having experienced racial
>prejudice in their own life, and having been on the receiving end of
>RL equivalents of "mudblood".

There are real wizards on this list? I'm astonished. I thought we were
talking about a work of fiction here.

I've not seen any evidence of discrimination in the WW on the basis of race
or sex. Whether the history of the Muggle side of the Potterverse was
influenced by the existence of the WW I suspect we shall never know but it
seems quite obvious that JKR intended her world to reflect the ethnic makeup
of both sides of humanity.

So can we calm down on the PC? Mudblood is used in the books and I don't see
any need to sanitise it on the list. an unpleasant term to the protagonists,
but as I said, they are fictional.

It's a bit like saying you have a problem with the word spogbat.

hwyl

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