Little Ray wrote: “Actually it is more Harry Potter, but the folks that used it were racist against “mudbloods.””
Thank you. I’m not a Harry Potter fan.
I did find this gem: “J.K. Rowling herself has also pointed out the similarities between pure-bloods and Nazis, thanks to their mutual views on bloodlines and purity.” So it Rowling agrees with me.
Here’s more of the quotation:
The videos have racked up hundreds of thousands of views, but there’s one flaw in the name that viewers have pointed out—pure-bloods in the Harry Potter movies were on the bad side.
“Tell me you didn’t understand the entire plot of Harry Potter, without telling me you didn’t understand the entire plot of Harry Potter,” wrote one TikTok user.
The families that believed in pure-blood supremacy, like the Malfoys, in the movies often teamed up with Voldemort and the Death Eaters to reign terror on the wizarding world and were ultimately on the side of evil.
J.K. Rowling herself has also pointed out the similarities between pure-bloods and Nazis, thanks to their mutual views on bloodlines and purity.
“If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts the Nazis used to show what constituted ‘Aryan’ or ‘Jewish’ blood. I saw one in the Holocaust Museum in Washington when I had already devised the ‘pure-blood’, ‘half-blood’ and ‘Muggle-born’ definitions, and was chilled to see that the Nazis used precisely the same warped logic as the Death Eaters. A single Jewish grandparent ‘polluted’ the blood, according to their propaganda,” wrote the author in a 2007 answer to a fan question online.
In 1935, Nazi Germany introduced the Nuremburg Laws, which prevented Germans from marrying Jewish people in order to keep the bloodlines of the “Aryan” race, and required that all citizens have German “blood.”
https://www.newsweek.com/tiktok-harry-potter-pure-blood-vaccine-covid-anti-viral-video-1630148
Ya know, there is a bit of difference between laughing at folks may have done permanent damage to their health (and their kids’ health) and their genes using an experimental genetic therapy that has proven mostly useless for its alleged intended purpose and being “racist.”
And given the things that are called racist these days (peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for instance) I really don’t care.
But feel free to torture the metaphor all you like, though.
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Reading from your pappy’s scrapbook again?