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  • Every nation has had some degree of a superiority complex at some point in their history, but while most nations dialed down over time, the US has dialed up. A lot of that are reverberations from Cold War propaganda.

    I see that complex in a hand full of other nations and they’re all either at war or preparing to go to war. It’s disgusting and terrifying.








  • No, that really wasn’t her point. That was my theory when I was reading it as a kid and when I dropped the books halfway though for being annoying, I had assumed that it would be addressed later. I was shocked when I learned it was never addressed. Did it seem right with you that the Weasleys wanted a house elf? How about when Hagrid used house elves to test for poison in foods? Or when Harry thought that Hermione was being annoying about her whole Civil Rights thing?

    The house elf situation is actually really easy to fix. At least within Hogwarts. Dumbledore could have simply given them freedom and payed them to stay. Little Witch Academia did a House Elf story in 23 minutes that links to the greater season story arc. Reign of the Seven Spellblades did demihuman rights as a core part of it’s first story arc and world building.

    Lisa Simpson is an example of having the right idea, but being too young to have a greater effect. The show depicts her as annoying, but right. Rowling depicts Hermione as wrong because she’s annoying.

    Rowling is either a bad writer or a bad person if she couldn’t or choose not to address the slavery of the house elves in the seven books of the series.



  • Because JK Rowling puts her real world views in her world. As a kid, I stopped reading the books halfway through and just assumed that the House Elves and SPEW storyline would be resolved by the House Elves being freed. By setting up that would be storyline and leaving it at status quo, Rowling is endorsing race based slavery.

    There’s a lot of small story elements that can be brushed off if they stood alone, but together add up and reveal Rowling’s conservative word view. Hagrid is naturally violent, the sorting hat, there’s a whole school house for evil kids and not one of them ever breaks expectations… I could go on if I wasn’t on my phone.

    My whole reason for dropping the books halfway through was nothing ever changed. It was frustrating.










  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAsmeinkampf
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    https://youtube.com/watch?v=AmfsX7jgIyE

    Yes. Firstly, iq tests have a bias to the culture that created them. It’s based on the sorts of problems that that culture values. You can’t use it to compare to different populations with different cultures.

    Secondly, depending on what source you found, the study might have been run by racists with an agenda.

    Thirdly, Africa is a huge continent with wildly varying cultures. You can just average those results together and get anything useful out of it, unless you have a racist agenda.