re: JK Rowling reveals Voldemort is a nationalist and the Harry Potter books deal with racism

Of course they dealt with racism.

Houseelves, giants, centaurs, etc.

All of those were viewed as lesser beings.

An allegory for racism.


Guess what: LOTR, Star Wars, Star Trek...Pretty much any fantasy has a lot of racism allegories in them.


And Voldemort being a Nationalist is not a revelation either.

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They’re both fiction at the turn of the century and shoehorned mixed race couples in there.

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Honestly, was not as rare in New Orleans.

Ever hear of creole or mulatto?


It became more rare after the Civil War and very rare in the twentieth century.


But New Orleans high Society used to have what was called "Quadroon Balls" where wealthy whites would meet black and mixed girls and come to an arrangement where the wealthy guy would set her up in an apartment and pay her expenses and sometimes set her up with a business, and she would be his mistress. And kids would often be a result.


Marie Lavou was rumored to be in such an arrangement.






New Orleans was a different place than the rest of America until the early 1900's. Probably 1910's or 20's is when it adopted the rest of the Southern mentality on race and politics.

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Why do people say things like this as though it’s something to be proud of?

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I don't. Simply stating why I might not know if she released a book last week.

There's Rowling makes shite up after the fact "I always thought of him as gay"

And then there's just affirming that the guy that was half-mudblood, wants to control the british magical world before expanding into the mundy, and has a fricking cult of personality army complete with uniforms is a Hitler with jetpack.

You dont even need to read the books and only need about 5 minutes from each movie to get that story.

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can see the "racist" angle in that case, but calling them "nationalist" makes no sense whatsoever.

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This

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Honestly, was not as rare in New Orleans.

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Yes it was.

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Ever hear of creole or mulatto?

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That wasn’t a couple. That was essentially a prostitute.

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But New Orleans high Society used to have what was called "Quadroon Balls" where wealthy whites would meet black and mixed girls and come to an arrangement where the wealthy guy would set her up in an apartment and pay her expenses and sometimes set her up with a business, and she would be his mistress. And kids would often be a result.

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So essentially a high quality escort. This isn’t a couple, this is closer to a sex slave than a GF

It’s just a book. Albeit, a good book, but just a book all the same. People really need to stop looking at it beyond its entertainment value. It must be hard living life trying to find political undertones or real world applications to every little thing.

Well no shite.

Mudbloods, House elves, Pure Bloods. It's pretty obvious.



I still love the shite out of these books!

A nationalist? What the frick? Most of his most loyal friends and followers were from Eastern Europe

JK Rowling these days


Everytime her name is brought up for pandering I think of this video