Hate crimes (was Re: muggle baiting vs. muggle torture)

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No: HPFGUIDX 155811



> Magpie:
> And I continue to disagree with you and do not see myself as being 
> unfair to Fred and George because of it.  Wizards have super powers 
> that Muggles do not have.  That is the *definition* of what they 
> are.  Taking advantage of those super powers is an abuse of power 
> against a Muggle in a way it is not against a Wizard.  The way I 
> would frame it using your analogy about racism would be to say that 
> okay, a white person does not hate all black people.  But he hates a 
> particular one because the guy is a bully.  Does that mean that if 
> he chooses to expess his hatred of that black person by using that 
> inequality against him, it's not racist? Because by using Magic they 
> are using the dividing line between Wizard and Muggle to their 
> advantage--in order to test their joke product for Wizards.

Gerry

You are being inconsistent here. If motive does not matter, than it
does not matter. If it does not matter that Fred and George use magic
on Dudley because he is a bully, it is equally unimportant that the
toffee they use is also a test for their joke shop. If the last
suddenly does matter, you have to prove that that was the reason why
they gave Dudley the opportunity to eat it, and why their comment:
that they gave it because he was a bullying git was not the reason. 

Gerry