[HPforGrownups] Re: : Moody -- "Types"--Where Are the Bleeding Hearts? by...

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 125404

 
In a message dated 3/2/2005 12:21:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
antoshachekhonte at yahoo.com writes:

BUT! We  do in fact have one very clear example of a bleeding heart liberal 
(a label  that I 
myself proudly bear): Hermione. If bleeding-heart liberalism is  
characterized by rooting 
for the underdog, support of rights, opposition  of oppression that is based 
on mere 
tradition--the tradition that  conservatives are trying to conserve--then 
SPEW seems like a 
BHL movement  to me!


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Sherrie here:
 
You know, I was watching something on the History Channel the other night  
when I was forcibly reminded of Hermione's SPEW campaign.  The show was on  the 
old ten-in-one circus sideshows, and the "freaks" who appeared in them, many  
of them for VERY good money.  Sometime after WWII a movement began to stop  
the "exploitation" of these people - whether they wanted to be "freed" or  not.  
Most of the freaks were in the "or not" category - they'd found a way  to 
make their differences work, to be self-supporting, to have their own sort of  
dignity, and most important perhaps, their own community.  Then along come  
these people who don't CARE about any of that, WE know what's best for you, shut  
down the sideshows...as a result of which, most of these people lost their  
livelihoods and became burdens to the state.  My immediate thought was,  
"Hermione and the house elves!"  The vast majority of the house elves don't  want to 
be freed, either - but that doesn't stop Hermione.  She's got the  bit in her 
teeth, don't bother her with the facts.  
 
Sherrie
(who's a lot like Hermione in many ways - but usually researches her causes  
first...)
"My best friend is the man who'll give me a book I ain't read." -  A. Lincoln


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