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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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      • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s because Mudblood is a magic user born from a Muggle family. A different term from Muggle itself. Pretty sure Muggle is an accepted term in the overall society (it’s used in the Ministry’s Department name for example), except from a few ‘activists’ you might hear of.

        I believe there’s someone like that in Hogwarts Legacy as well.

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      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What’s wrong about saying the blacks or the gays? That’s just refering to a specific group of people. Only thing I can see as problematic is the generalization that follows but that’s always the case when talking about groups.

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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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