Konkvistador comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 8 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2011 10:11:39AM *  5 points [-]

from racism against and bullying of mudbloods/hufflepuffs

I don't really think racism is the right word here. Well at least no more than say classism (in general reading HP its very hard to miss the obvious parallels between the divide among muggles and wizards and the class divisions there).

Comment author: drethelin 27 August 2011 05:33:24PM 3 points [-]

You can have both! Malfoys hate slytherins because they're lower class, but they never claim they aren't even people, because they're pureblood. But they actually want all mudbloods to die, because they're of a mixed breed with the lesser race.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2011 05:37:32PM *  1 point [-]

I think its more like hating people with a congenital defect or people of poor breeding who aren't from noble or prestigious families.