← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Hugh Lincoln
Thread ID: 19232 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-07-20
2005-07-20 13:28 | User Profile
One of Mo Dees' missys has predictable thoughts.
[url]http://tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=1256[/url]
[I]In J.K. Rowling's world, half-blood means "half magic." But the term ââ¬â reflecting a dichotomy between magic/powerful and mundane/helpless ââ¬â implies a hierarchy. This "magic" hierarchy directly resembles racial hierarchies.[/I]
Gasp! But never fear. The underlying message is "wholesome."
But I wonder if it's not just some insulation for what is, at its core, white Western culture stories. I just love how an all-white British literary creation, loaded with all the goblins and magic and other good stuff from our misty forest past, rockets to supreme popularity. Take that, Dora the Explorer!
2005-07-20 17:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Hugh Lincoln]One of Mo Dees' missys has predictable thoughts.
[url]http://tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=1256[/url]
[I]In J.K. Rowling's world, half-blood means "half magic." But the term ââ¬â reflecting a dichotomy between magic/powerful and mundane/helpless ââ¬â implies a hierarchy. This "magic" hierarchy directly resembles racial hierarchies.[/I]
Merciful Christ, do these whiney hebes and their gelded underlings never run out of things to bawl about?
I had to force myself to read this article three times before I realized what it said: absolutely nothing. It's hundreds of words of navel-gazing self-adoring wordiness that, in the end, has no meaning whatever.
Gasp! But never fear. The underlying message is "wholesome."
But I wonder if it's not just some insulation for what is, at its core, white Western culture stories. I just love how an all-white British literary creation, loaded with all the goblins and magic and other good stuff from our misty forest past, rockets to supreme popularity. Take that, Dora the Explorer![/QUOTE]
Well, it's not quite as well-scrubbed as that. JK Rowling has, on repeated public occasions, voiced her wholehearted disapproval of "racism" and "hate" (which two she considers interchangable), and the novels do have the odd negro or wog character conspicuously placed and prominently identified as such. But in general, she's no worse than the average lemming in this respect. Racially-aware adult readers of the Harry Potter series will (rightly) sneer from time to time over the self-conscious little dog droppings of mulitculturalism scattered here and there on the otherwise well-manicured Hogwarts lawn, but they needn't avoid the series on that account.
Racially concious parents should consider giving some guidance to their offspring before letting them buy the book (which will require that they first read it themselves), but there's no reason to keep it from them entirely. Hugh Lincoln is right -- at its core, this all comes from the Western mythic tradition -- albeit in a diluted and impure form.
Yes, I've read Half-blood Prince.
2005-07-20 21:16 | User Profile
I've seen the same sort of comments about Lord Of The Rings.
When the film Topsy-Turvy came out, one Canadian reviewer I read couldn't believe that the director had made a movie about such an "embarrassing" part of English history.
2005-07-20 21:51 | User Profile
Having read about a third of the book, I'd say she is commenting bluntly about the increases in Security and General Public Hysteria during the "War on Terror." Her theme on "Mudbloods" and racial purity is about three books old. Don't remember which book the issue appeared in, but it has been a consistent theme.
Ironically, I don't think she realizes the inference made, probably unintentionally by her, that The Half Blood Prince, who turns into the personification of evil for all six books, undermines her public "mix the stew some more" rhetoric.
Her theme in this book could easily be read as "we create great evil when we mix races." using even modestly narrow quoting from context in a review. It took me about a minute to come up with that. :cool2:
Given how loose her prose and story arcs, you can read anything you want to into her this lite fare.
James Joyce she ain't. [QUOTE=Hugh Lincoln]Take that, Dora the Explorer![/QUOTE]Sung to the usual tune of "The Frito Bandito" etcetera . . .
There once were some internet fora Best read drinking wine from amphora Hot links showed a chap, * Some chick's face in his lap, Who turned out to be Dora Explorer!*
Aye, yai yai yai Yer aunties all swim out to troopships . . .
2005-07-21 02:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angeleyes]
Her theme in this book could easily be read as "we create great evil when we mix races." using even modestly narrow quoting from context in a review. It took me about a minute to come up with that. :cool2:
.[/QUOTE] You took the words out of my mouth. I was thinking the same thing. I also think that the portrayel of different "magical folks" like house elves, is a reflection of modern day third world immigrants coming for self imposed slavery into the "West".
2005-07-21 13:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=BlueBonnet]You took the words out of my mouth. I was thinking the same thing. I also think that the portrayel of different "magical folks" like house elves, is a reflection of modern day third world immigrants coming for self imposed slavery into the "West".[/QUOTE] Yep, complete with speaking in fractured English. I wonder if she realizes what a charicature of those subservient, little brown immigrants she presents. In fact, I wonder if her editor even reads her stuff, or maybe he just looks at WOG's the way most Brits do.