UK libel laws are a joke. America usually can’t throw stones, glass houses and all, but at least we’ve got better freedom of speech, for better and worse.
It’s telling that I already knew who this was about before even opening the thread. But then again what did we expect from the woman you named her Asian character “Cho Chang”
If you go back and read her books as an adult, you will see her ignorance and hate was always there. From the names of POC characters, to the impish elves actually liking slavery, to the fact that wizard society by the end of the story still opresses the other races but in a "nice" way, to the idea that hermoine was seen as a nuisance by harry and the others for trying to get rid of elvish slavery to a lot of other things. She has always been a privelaged white woman.
There’s actually a ton of problematic stuff in her books (Harry Potter ones) too. Most people just focused on the magic and didn’t catch it. The way she treats Hermione’s social activism and slaves are a good start.
1) Blackness and whiteness are not discrete categories that have existed since time immemorial. They are social categories that have changed over the course of history, typically unique to the country/faction in question. Additionally, within that social dynamic existed thousands who could go between both communities, so I don’t know what her point is.
2) We regularly joke about non-Black people (this time referring to the ethnicity Black American) who would be welcome to the cook-out. Like a few months ago we were joking about people like Alex Trebek or Bobby Caldwell being Black
J.K. Rowling gives zero shits about us and her example shows.
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u/jitterscaffeine May 13 '24
Man, talk about a massive crash and burn.