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[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 173276

>> And that's just scary. Because this is the same kind 
>> of mindset that leads to genocides or persecution of 
>> minority groups in real life. JKR condemns this mindset 
>> when it comes to Muggles, yet tacitly supports it for 
>> Slyths. So torturing Slyths is totally justified! JKR 
>> condemns the "Muggle-born Registration Commission", but 
>> she'd probably be OK w/a "Slytherin-born Registration 
>> Commission" & not even see the irony. I've lost so much 
>> respect for JKR after this novel. She'll preach superficial 
>> lessons in tolerance & understanding, but when it comes 
>> to really understanding & integrating differences, she 
>> refuses. She would rather cut off & attempt to destroy 
>> those qualities in herself, and attempt to cut off a whole 
>> segment of the population as less human. And that's beyond scary.

>> lizzyben


>> "We still attribute to the other fellow all the evil 
>> and inferior qualities that we do not like to recognize 
>> in ourselves, and therefore have to criticize and attack 
>> him, when all that has happened is that an inferior 
>> "soul" has emigrated from one person to another. The 
>> world is still full of betes noires and scapegoats, 
>> just as it formerly teemed with witches and werewolves"

>> C. G. Jung

Renee:

> Lizzyben, was it your intention of accusing JKR of 
> being a racist and a Nazi? If not I seriously advise 
> you to rethink this post. Ad hominem arguments never 
> contribute to a healthy discussion, and you're crossing 
> the line here quite thoroughly.

houyhnhnm:

I can't speak for lizzyben, but I don't think it even 
crossed her mind to accuse Rowling of being a Nazi.  It 
is certainly not how I interpreted her message. (And I 
find the veiled threat of sicking the list elves onto 
someone who posts an idea someone else finds threatening 
very scary indeed.)

Here's where *I* think the Nazi bit comes in.  For decades 
after World War II, there was an argument advanced in 
Anglo-American culture that Nazism arose in Germany 
because of some inherent defect in the German people.  
Germans were the Other. They were the Slytherins.  
It Can't Happen Here because we're not like that.  
We're Gryffindors. Everything we do is good.  I don't 
think anyone makes that argument today, not out loud 
anyway, but the attitude still exists sub-consciously.  
That is why it offends me when people Wave the Bloody 
Shirt of Nazism.  I consider it a convenient way of casting
one's own responsibility for eschewing evil back into 
the past and onto the Other.