Victory for TEWWW EWWW

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 173357

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> wrote:
>
lizzyben:
> >> 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. 

> 
> 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. 

Renee:
Well, forgive me for having had doubts; to me, it looked like she did.
I'm very glad she explained herself.

houyhnhm:
(And I 
> find the veiled threat of sicking the list elves onto 
> someone who posts an idea someone else finds threatening 
> very scary indeed.)

Renee:
Stealing the tea-cozy of a list-elf for a moment, however dubious,
isn't the same as siccing them onto someone. As far as I know, the
list elves are fully capable of deciding when to interfere without any
siccing by third parties.

Houynhm:  
> 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. 

Renee:
Like Peter Pettigrew? 

(BTW, it wasn't just an Anglo-American trait, but that isn't relevant
here.)