Hermione's a liberal: was re: Moody -- "Types"--Where Are the Bleeding Hearts?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 125451




> Kemper now:
> 
> I'm not arguing Hermione's lack of tolerance; I'm arguing her lack 
of 
> consideration towards a people who have a seemingly unchanged 
culture 
> that has continued for centuries.  

Finwitch:

I think that disrespect of another culture is what I find wrong in 
what Hermione's doing. AND of the individual elves. She doesn't 
listen to them, she has a patronizing attitude towards them.

She may have managed to memorize history as Dates, Contracts, Wars, 
Borders -- but does she understand the great lines? The cultures gone 
since the arrival of the europeans  - first they come and teach this 
new culture how their food sources and other environment-suited 
cultural things are 'wrong'. Then they leave, and the people no 
longer have the means to survive on their own. Africa and India.


Finwitch