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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Muggles is wizard song for non-magical human beings. Like Darren on Bewitched would be a muggle.

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• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Muggle is a racial slur used by magic-able people to refer to magic disabled people.

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  • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not a slur, you’re thinking of mudblood

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    • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There can be more than one slur. Muggle is debatable I believe.

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      • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Idk I can’t remember anyone in Harry Potter using it as a straight up slur, the worst I can think of is some people use it in a rude way like “The Blacks” or “The Gays”. I haven’t read them in a long time tho, I just remember mudblood being a slur and muggle being the accepted term, even by muggleborn magic users

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      • brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Muggle isnt a slur, just as wizard isnt a slur. It’s not a derogatory term. It’s just their word for non-magic people while non-magic people use the word wizard or witch.

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    • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The preferred term is NaMP - Not a Magical Person/Non-Magical Person. You could also say “Person of Non-Magic,” but it’s hard to pronounce “ponm.”

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Non magical people living in the real world. It’s you. You’re a muggle.

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  • DrQuint@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t know that

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    • fkn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do know it, via magic. You can’t prove I don’t know, because you’re a muggle.

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• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Non-magical people’s tech. Aka our technology.

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