• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    I love how Rowling dodges the difficult questions like “hey how did the magical indigenous traditions in colonized nations survive and not just kill every cracker in a ten thousand mile radius at some point in the last six hundred years?” by instead just being too racist for it to be a problem.

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      I love how Rowling dodges the difficult questions like “hey how did the magical indigenous traditions in colonized nations survive and not just kill every cracker in a ten thousand mile radius at some point in the last six hundred years?” by instead just being too racist for it to be a problem.

      When freaking Shadowrun answered that question with more satisfaction than this trash, resulting in roughly half of Burgerland being ceded back to the First Nations. sicko-wistful

    • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      9 days ago

      Given that the first world wizards blindly emulate capitalist society when there’s no real need it’s coherent to imagine that they helped colonization by waging colonial war against the magical indigenous people

      Yeah that doesn’t make it look cool but that’s an explanation!