slinkhard has provided a good example of the egotism that distinguishes rabid Slytherfen.

*Rowling has more to say recently - god knows how Girl Guides becomes a forum to defend pairing decisions, but I'll roll with that ( Read more... )

There is a common thread that unites many Slytherin fans. It may not be the most high-profile, but it's certainly one of the theories most dependent on invented backstory and personal identification. Until, that is, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when these fans were completely justified in all their ficcing and theorizing, and there ( Read more... )

I'm mostly done with Death Eaters and racism. This is the epitaph to the affair.

Flamewarior: The reason I think it's important to be clear and accurate in making analogies, and spread the sets of analogies as wide as possible, is the same reason I think it's vitally important to remember the Travellers and gay men and anarchists and trade ( Read more... )

ajhalluk: And there's certainly no use trying to chop logic with someone who creates a troll journal to combat hate.

Also:
jonquil:No, no.

Racism: bad.
Death Eaters: bad.

Therefore, Death Eaters are racists. Q.E.D.

Of course, by this logic, Death Eaters are Cheez Whiz, but you can't have everything.

ajhalluk: I wasn't going to be nasty about people who couldn't spot ( Read more... )

Sister Magpie asked:

ETA: So I was reading the post Aja linked to saying that yes, Pureblood Prejudice is racism. What struck me was the end of the post seemed to also suggest that thinking Pureblood Prejudice was not racism, meant you were a DE apologist. I'm not seeing the leap there. If I argued that anti-Semitism wasn't racism because Jews ( Read more... )

ataniell93 talking to theregoesyamum in a post on the awful Cult of Mean:

If you'd like to post an apology in your journal to all the people you've wronged, including onlyinfatuated--yes, she wrote a poorly done essay, but that doesn't mean you have the right to call for her forced sterilisation...

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ataniell93 in a thread of sistermagpie's:

I wish they'd all just die and save the gene pool. I really ( Read more... )

ataniell93 is not racist. Happy now? She and other painfully earnest Slytherfen are called racist some times, but for most of them, that's an unwarranted attack on their characters. (I say "most", because as with any large group, there are unfortunate exceptions.) If anyone wants to argue that ataniell93 is actually promoting genocide, that person needs to get off- ( Read more... )

ataniell93 has been saying for years that pureblood prejudice has nothing to do with racism. The latest statement of this comes from a thread on her LJ, from April 10. (This sort of rhetoric is typical. She's also written a long rant on the subject.)

I am a complete mutt, myself, but this shit just irritates me ( Read more... )