mattnewport comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 01 July 2010 01:03:05AM *  1 point [-]

Ancestry and heredity are a big part of class in Britain (and some other cultures with a strong class or caste element) but are not about race.

Comment author: WrongBot 01 July 2010 01:40:14AM 5 points [-]

This is true, and the blood-purity issue is not entirely analogous to race. But Rowling went to quite a bit of effort to line her bad guys up with the Nazis. (Grindelwald ended up imprisoned in a place called Nurmengard, even!)