How is harry potter in the center with all the terf shit Rowling pulled recently and how the world is clearly structured in strictly conservative hierarchies where everyone has their role and there are races only made for serving despite clearly intelligent and races with huge noses that are all working in finances and so on.
Shaun did a great video on the series pointing out how problematic a lot of it is
Well, the H.P. fandom stands in the center not Rowling or her books. I think one should differentiate with that.
Also: yes, the books contain antisemitic stereotypes, but Rowling herself hasn’t said herself anything antisemitic to my knowledge. Some of her statemets are transphobic, but the Fediverse has enough room to carry out this conflict.
We are not in centralized social media anymore, where you have to be on the same site as everybody else. If you are on the same instance as a transphobe and you oppose that: change instances. If you don’t want to be on an instance that federates with any transphobe content: change to an instance that de-federated with any of those instances. That’s all possible in the Fediverse.
I feel a lot of people only look on HP with a lot of nostalgia and don’t want to see the problems with that world.
It’s a great children’s book but imho not as good for adults to look at it without giving it a second thought
I do think that the book carry some important messages like questioning authority, being agents of one’s own life. On the other hand you it is rather conservative and some bad stereotypes.
But the question is: for which novel doesn’t this apply, too? I think one can look past those things if one looks at the overall message here. Also, the universe and the fandom has developed since the original series. Look at the game: its very diverse. Ok, you still have the antisemetic stereotypes, but its definitely a step forward.
So yes, I think the H.P. still has something for society to profit from. The popularity also speaks for itself. If you like it or not, it will stay a part of society for a while.
So instead of banning the whole thing (which is unrealistic in the long run anyways), I think it would be good to embrace its healthy parts for the Fediverse.
