The globins follow a lot of harmful Jewish stereotypes but I’m not sure it’s obvious whether they’re intended as racist caricatures or if it’s just bad writing. It’s not unreasonable to assume that though when you put it beside much more blatant examples, such as calling the black guy “Shacklebolt” and the Asian girl “Cho Chang”.
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Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
her books are basically her terf beliefs, some have said the goblins represented jewish people.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 2 months ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
JK leans heavily into things “biological nature” or “Born Nature” as a reoccurring theme. Hagrid is inherently violent and Voldemort’s villain back story being he was a rape baby.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 2 months ago
Absolutely, I just meant to point out that there’s far more blatant examples. Goblins have been antisemitic caricatures in fantasy for a long time so it’s easy for a bad writer to just regurgitate existing tropes, so a racist writer can use that as a shield. It’s much harder to justify naming your black character after slave imagery.
IDrawPoorly@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Seamus Finnegan,
Hot take; the reason Seamus Finnigan kept accidentally blowing stuff up was because JK Rowling wanted to be racist towards Irish people…
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh you mean someone might interpret the sinister race of greedy hook nosed goblin creatures who run all of the banks as possibly being influenced by anti semitic tropes? That’s news to me!
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like I was in the minority that saw those for the first time in the movies and was like…dude how fucking outright antisemitic can you be in a children’s movie?
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had never watched the movies or read the books as a kid because my parents thought they would make me turn to satanism and so I was horrified watching a friend play lego harry Potter and I see this anti semitic stereotype hoarding gold so I was like “bro what is that” and he was like “oh yeah that’s a goblin they run the wizard banks” and I was like “so wait a race of evil creatures with giant hook noses run all the banks in Harry Potter? That’s sketchy as fuck” and he was like “Huh… Never noticed it before but yeah that’s messed up”
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t forget that the first version of the movie had a giant Star Of David in the middle of the floor of Gringotts. And yes, while that is a real bank with the Star Of David on the floor, maybe it would have been a good idea to not have it framed in shot if you’re already being accused of antisemitism.