And don’t worry, if some of your readers are so strongly anti-slavery that they think the book is ridiculing the characters ridiculing the anti-slavery character, you can host a guest post on your blog explaining that it’s supposed to be pro-slavery and anyone getting any other message is wrong.
Yeah figured it wasn’t hypothetical, but holy fuck people… do they not realize that all you have to do is change “elf” to “black people” and those are literally the same arguments used for slavery and how wrong that was….
The most heinous crime conceivable to a conservative like JKR is an attempt to change the status quo.
An obvious example: Sure we’re burning the world to the ground. But did you ever consider what if renewable energy is somehow even worse, and its advocates are terrorists?
And don’t worry, if some of your readers are so strongly anti-slavery that they think the book is ridiculing the characters ridiculing the anti-slavery character, you can host a guest post on your blog explaining that it’s supposed to be pro-slavery and anyone getting any other message is wrong.
I feel like that isn’t a hypothetical…?
This isn’t a hypothetical thread. Rowling’s Pottermore blog had this post https://web.archive.org/web/20170929062836/https://www.pottermore.com/features/to-spew-or-not-to-spew-hermione-granger-and-the-pitfalls-of-activism (which has since been removed, but only after it had been up for years) full of slavery apologia and with the premise that whether or not slavery is bad, Hermione’s actions to try and stop it (which amounted to asking people to stop having slaves) were worse.
Yeah figured it wasn’t hypothetical, but holy fuck people… do they not realize that all you have to do is change “elf” to “black people” and those are literally the same arguments used for slavery and how wrong that was….
And it gets worse when combined with Rowling’s later comments that she’d always imagined Hermione was black.
“Imagined” yet after all the book art and movie she never bothered to correct anyone? I smell some retconning BS there.
The most heinous crime conceivable to a conservative like JKR is an attempt to change the status quo.
An obvious example: Sure we’re burning the world to the ground. But did you ever consider what if renewable energy is somehow even worse, and its advocates are terrorists?
LOL JK