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What are some book series like Harry Potter [quaint, pleasant, deep lore] but less childish and bigoted? (lemmy.world)
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i love asoiaf but it's hard to start rereading atm of course

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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

On the other hand, Rawlings uses her success as a public validation for her bigotry. So it is fair to opt out of supporting her artistry.

Secondly, bigotry is layered in her books.

  • family is better than being free of abuse
  • slavery is funny, also they like it
  • goblins are a terrible caricature of Jewish people
  • general acceptance of eugenics in daily society
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Ok there's a bit here I disagree with.

    1. I feel like one of the messages I got out of HP is that chosen family means more than given family. Such as when Harry gets sweater from Mrs Weasley and nothing from Dursleys

    2. Just because slavery exists in the story, doesn't mean it's treated positively. There's an entire revolutionary movement for them in one of the books and Hermione is active in it. And Hermione is often a pretty safe moral compass.

    3. No defense of the Goblins, this one is pretty bad.

    4. Again, just because this idea exists doesn't mean it's supported. In fact, the bad guys are the ones always supporting it so it's pretty clearly a villainous idea.

    Your arguments remind me of the illiterate folk who claim that Lolita supports pedophilia when the opposite is true. Just because something is present in a story doesn't mean it's presented as a good thing, or something worth supporting.

    For the record, I do not support JKR and kind of wish HP would fade into obscurity, even if it was a defining moment of my childhood/generation.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hermione is constantly made fun of for being anti slavery and her movement does nothing. The whole thing is treated like a joke, a pie in the sky fancy of someone who doesn't understand how the real world works.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Which is true in real life too so I don't see the issue. Think of climate activists and how they're treated in the US. Or those supporting socialist policies like right to housing or food. They are treated as an absolute joke, just for wanting to do the right thing at the expense of those in power.

    If I had to pick a character who does the right thing more often than anyone, it's probably Hermione.

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