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!

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 1w

No that’s on you for projecting your racism

Anonymous

#1 1w

And her stereotypical ass naming of Indian, Chinese, and Scottish students? Or the black dude with the name Schacklebolt? Or the entire house elf plot line about “actually hermione you dumb bitch we like being slaves?” I might be projecting but her white hood and robes sure make it easy to get a clear picture

Anonymous

OP 1w

Show me where that quote was taken

Anonymous

#1 1w

Forgive me for not having a digital anthology on hand to CTRL-F through but when she tried knitting clothes for all hogwarts’ elves to free them they saw it as an insult to their race and refused to clean the gryffindor common room. I think her conclusion was something about brainwashing when she gave up. Now remember, it could just as likely be a metaphor for housewives as it could for slavery. So don’t forget to accuse me of projecting my misogyny as well, browbeater

Anonymous

OP 1w

Okay so we’re trying to make up quotes to backup your racist ideology??

Anonymous

#1 1w

No. If you think I’m trying to pass off what I put in quotations as a quote from the series than you aren’t smart enough to be on this app

Anonymous

OP 1w

So you didn’t say that in quotes?

Anonymous

#1 1w

Then* oops guess you don’t gotta hear me out anymore

Anonymous

OP 1w

Moving the goalposts to cover up your racism is crazy man.. best time to take down this post is now

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Anonymous

#1 1w

I’m pointing at the moon right now and you’re ogling my finger. As I just said, I put it in quotes, that is not the same as telling you it’s a quote. Pleeease give the Ben Shapiro act a rest

Anonymous

OP 1w

Do you know what quotation marks are?😭

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Anonymous

#1 1w

Do you weaponize your incompetence only to people you’ve convinced yourself are racists or are did you just see a season of Young Sheldon and decide to base your entire mode of interacting with people around it?

Anonymous

#1 1w

Have you ever heard of paraphrasing? Everything this dude is saying is correct literally just read the books 😭

Anonymous

#2 1w

Nevermind the fact that these are pretty common criticisms of the book, other people have noticed too nobody's "projecting" their racism except for Rowling in her writing

Anonymous

#2 1w

You don’t put a paraphrase in quotes lil bro🥀

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Anonymous

#1 1w

Expecting grammar and writing to be perfect on an anonymous wordslop app is a waste but i think you don't really care and just don't like that the racism in these books is being pointed out

Anonymous

#1 1w

Thank god I did, you funky unc, or you wouldn’t have found such a pretty hill to die on. Take yourself and your method of arguing back to Reddit where it belongs

Anonymous

#1 1w

The funny part is you’re actually right, it’s just that nobody gives a shit because your motivation for being right is to take away from your being wrong elsewhere. I definitely could have put apostrophes instead of quotations. JKKK Rowling could also have put goblins, the mythological creature founded in anti-Semitic folklore, any-other-fuckin-where than the places that the minority which they were made to deride stereotypically hold power

Anonymous

#2 1w

It’s not even that it’s a common grammar mistake, if you’re talking about a book and to reinforce your point you make a quote like it’s from the book that’s way beyond a basic mistake

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Anonymous

OP 1w

If you didn’t frame it like a quote I wouldn’t of taken it like a quote

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Anonymous 1w

I’m glad you came around and admitted that you were wrong

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Anonymous

#1 1w

You can’t have honestly thought that was a quote from the book just because I put it in quotes though, do you understand how asinine that is? I don’t think you’re so stupid that you’d take it that way, and I’m getting the impression you think I’m stupid enough to try and trick you? You sound like a math teacher right now. “42 what? Apples? Bananas?” And fyi that’s a verbatim quote. That kind of aspergerial pedagogy is probably why you’re on here instead of enjoying your summer. No shame in that

Anonymous

#1 1w

Because idk about you but I don’t post in MLA format. Look whose moving the goalposts now 😂

Anonymous

OP 1w

You don’t see how that could’ve been taken as a quote?? You said “the entire house elf plot line” and then put a quote. You’re just mad you got called out

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Anonymous

OP 1w

Moving the goal posts, typical. What other fallacies are you gonna commit to try and dodge accountability?

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Anonymous

#1 1w

I forgot to put the ever-important air-quotes around your words, but believe it or not, those were actually your words just a little bit ago. My God, you want to be right so bad I can feel your desperation through the fucking screen. Thank God I did something to get “called out” over, because without that, you’d have nowhere else to backpedal after you couldn’t gaslight me into being racist.

Anonymous

#1 1w

I’m confused. Did you actually read the books. Because for you to think that could be a quote in the series points to the fact that you have not. Which means you’re here solely to be a know-it-all. Which is sad. If ignorance is supposed to be bliss, how come you’re both sad AND stupid?

Anonymous

OP 1w

Show me where I said that

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Anonymous

#1 1w

This is where you said that

Anonymous

#1 1w

Unless you mean this. I don’t blame you for not remembering this one tho, I wouldn’t want to remember posting this either

Anonymous 1w

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

Anonymous

#3 1w

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

Anonymous

OP 1w

So you’re ignoring the context to try and make a point about how context is important?

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Anonymous

OP 1w

I see your bit now, I play along for you

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Anonymous

#3 1w

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 1w

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 1w

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 1w

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

Anonymous

#3 1w

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 1w

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 1w

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

#5 1w

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 6d

Oh no she knew what she was doing

Anonymous

OP 6d

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

Anonymous

#7 6d

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

Anonymous

#1 6d

Oh my god it was bait wasn’t it

Anonymous

OP 5d

Yep🤣

Anonymous

OP 5d

Got bored and started rage baiting people, just got un banned so imma do it again

Anonymous

OP 5d

You do realize that stereotypical names exist because they are actually common names among those groups, right?

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