the DE are Nazi?Re: Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. (But not sympathetic)

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No: HPFGUIDX 124789


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> >
> 
<snip> 
>I've always found it confusing that the purebloods would regard the
> *absence* of a trait (magical "blood") as somehow contaminating or
> fouling the blood (muggleborn + "mudblood"). Be that as it may, I
> think they fear that their bloodline will be polluted if they 
marry a
> Muggleborn because a witch or wizard born of Muggle parents is more
> likely (in their view) to produce a Squib child. 

If JKR wanted that to be the reason or mindset, she would have had 
Ron mention it when he defined what a squib is. Since he didn't, 
since it hasn't been so much as hinted at in the text, I don't think 
it's tenable.


> 
> At any rate, I don't think that the prejudice against Muggleborns 
is
> "arbitrary." It stems from fear and mistrust of Muggles (who have
> historically hanged, burned, and otherwise harassed and injured
> wizards) and a sense that Muggles are innately inferior. 


For anti-semites, their hatred of Jews is also not arbitrary - the 
Jews, after all, are (choose all or some of) money grabbing, greedy, 
mean, sickly, cowardly, Christian babies ritual killers, vicious, 
calculating, cold hearted, licentious, disease carriers, malformed, 
ugly, unnatural... <running out of adjectives...>. Most insidious of 
all, perhaps, certainly in the modern context, is the myth of a 
grand Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world. I've just googled 
for "protocols of learned elders of Zion", and found the 
site "www.biblebelievers.org.au". The introduction, attempting to 
prove the authenticity of this preposterous document, ends with: "It 
also demonstrates that the Jews are now a world menace, and that the 
Aryan races will have to domicile them permanently out of Europe.."
In the same way, racism against blacks also rests on a conviction 
regarding the inferioriy of people of colour, and at times, on 
various fears, all of which are either factually wrong or have to do 
with socially produced traits. 



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