AITA on Yik Yak | Im tired of acting like Im the one in the wrong when I point out that JK Rowling put an entire race of short, hook-nosed creatures in charge of the wizarding world’s financial institutions. That’s not on me for noticing, that’s on her for not noticing!

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AITA 13w

Im tired of acting like Im the one in the wrong when I point out that JK Rowling put an entire race of short, hook-nosed creatures in charge of the wizarding world’s financial institutions. That’s not on me for noticing, that’s on her for not noticing!

Anonymous 13w

Goblins have always been historically rooted in antisemitism, but a lot of people don’t know that. I hate jkr for many reasons, but she didn’t invent this depiction of goblins, and goblins are very common in pretty much every fantasy world. So you’re right that the goblins seem like antisemitic caricatures, but that can’t be attributed to jkr (and is far from the most bigoted she’s been tbh)

Anonymous 13w

She IS CONTROVERSIAL. BUT WHATS WRONG WITH SHORT HOOK NOSED PEOPLE!?

Anonymous 13w

This is actually such a reach. There is some stuff in those books that is kind of weird, but bro the bank tellers are goblins. Goblins have always been designed that way and are literally greedy merchants💀If you’re bringing something else into it because you see a character being drawn like that and immediately think they look like a real group of people, that’s literally projection

Anonymous 13w

Oh no she knew what she was doing

Anonymous

#3 13w

Yes let’s just have everyone in the school be white cis, hetero sexual people!

Anonymous

#3 13w

Nothing’s wrong with them. I just think JK Rowling made a lot of bald friends when she wrote them into controlling the financial institution of the wizarding world. But they’re not the problem I have with the student body

Anonymous

#3 13w

My problem with the student body is that the some of the non-English students are named a little caricature-ish. Like Cho Chang or Padma and Pavarti Patil. Or to a lesser extent because he’s white non-English but Seamus Finnegan. They’re cool valid characters that should stay in the text as they are, I want to make that clear, but there should have been more non-English characters and they should have had more English, or even those weird wizard-ey names.

Anonymous

#3 13w

But being that Hogwarts is supposed to be a prestigious boarding school, magical or not, that kind of tokenism might track in places like that

Anonymous

OP 13w

The UK is full of Indian and middle eastern immigration tho… those are very common Asian names?

Anonymous

#3 13w

I was gonna say that you’d expect names like those to make more of an appearance in the events of the story, but it’s entirely possible Harry avoids them. His dream job is wizard-cop after all

Anonymous

#5 13w

Im not attributing it to her by any means, Im just trying to say if I was doing fantasy world-building I would try to be a little more conscious of those things. Especially since that’s the only real fantasy trope with ties to any sort of prejudice. And fs she’s picked far worse hills to die on. But the fact that she couldn’t get away with writing that today isn’t because people have gotten more racist, like some of the other commenters would have me think

Anonymous

OP 13w

Ohhhh that’s not even close to the only real fantasy trope with ties to prejudice

Anonymous

#7 13w

It’s the only one I could find. Not that I doubt you, but tell me more