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[viridian5]

From Buzzfeed: "31 Times Tumblr Had Serious Questions About Disney"

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From io9: "J.K. Rowling's History of Magic in North America Was a Travesty From Start to Finish"

I haven't read it myself and will probably stay away if the racism and research failures are this extensive. The usual apologists came out with "but it's a fictional world!" Yeah

Comments

[aubergineautumn]

OK, your comment is the first one I agree with. She could have made it more interesting if there were more cultures. But- the stories she is publishing for free are extremely short, just a couple pages long. She's not writing a book.

[viridian5]

I get that, but I feel that then she never should have released something she called "a history," just the film. If you're just putting out one film it's okay, but if you're releasing something that sounds comprehensive to the public you should put more effort into it. Some authors put a ton of work and thought into a fictional book and don't even release any of their background.

Don't prove to us that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. I know she isn't American but she shouldn't show us that she thinks the U.S. is only maybe a little bigger than England with a near monoculture, something even the U.K. isn't.

Part of what informs my perspective is that my home borough of Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, and we're not the only place in this country immigrants and refugees have landed in this country over the last few centuries. Beasts itself visits New York City, which is famous for immigrants coming over.