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JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows”
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this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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For some reason they're rebooting the HP series into a show. I thought maybe it was a way to update some bits and distance themselves from Rowling, then they hired her as producer. Wtf is even the point?? If anything she's gonna make it more racist
What's weird is prior to the meltdown over trans people she was obnoxiously progressive. Constantly retconning characters via tweets to make them more inclusive, when it has absolutely nothing to do with the story being told.
I have no problem at all with Dumpledore being gay and Hermione being black. I think including marginalized people in story telling is fantastic.
But that's absolutely not how these characters were written. She just kinda said that's the way it was and left it at that. Because the characters weren't originally written with that in mind it added no context, and brought nothing to light about these characters that night have been missed. That's not inclusivity. It's pandering. And she just would not stop doing it.
Not sure if you know this or not but black Hermione wasn't a canon claim like Dumbledore. People were criticizing the casting of a play and she was defending the actress, saying "Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm."
Imo the worst of the canon claims is that wizards would shit themselves and then apparate it away instead of developing toilets.