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Harry Potter and the Military Industrial Complex

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is explored at length in the books. The wizard supremacists are an allegory for race supremacists, and it’s pointed out repeatedly that they’re delusional, broadly impotent, and small-minded. The death eaters believe so completely in their godhead and his divine right to rule that they neglect to consider even the most basic countermeasures or alternatives. There’s some “death of Stalin” paranoia but it’s overwhelmingly unforced incompetence.

Voldemort, likewise, blocks out even the potential for his lessers to outdo him. He is utterly infallible and his insecurities as an incest orphan to a fallen house will not allow him to feel any differently. Meanwhile, he’s been repeatedly circumvented and beaten by a group of teenagers, and his brewing plans will lead to the complete genocide of wizardkind upon reaching the world stage. It perfectly encapsulates the way race supremacists view the world and why they fail so frequently. The enemy is both strong and weak.

Darn shame rowling’s turned into what she hates. She wasn’t terrible at writing populism 101.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She just wrote what she actually believes and it ended up being biting satire by accident.

Fun fact: Rowling thinks Lolita is a beautiful and tragic love story

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If wizard supremacists are an allegory for white supremacists, are normal wizards normal white people and muggles "people of color"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

That’s one interpretation, absolutely. Or you could say Han Chinese, racist Han Chinese, and Uighurs. Or Israelis, racist israelis, and Gazans. Or white Americans, white American racists, and native Americans. Or white Brits/Irish, straight/gay, seafaring Scandinavians/prey, etc..

In group vs out group, with perceived genetic/social differences.