Re: Which actually brings things back to Terri's post
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That doesn't inherently make this a matter of racism rather than another kind of prejudice.
How about “in addition” rather than “rather”? Can we agree that blood prejudice is an issue of racism in addition to other kinds of prejudice? ‘Cause I’m not arguing against that. I just think the racism aspect is very important.
If you possess some kind of handicap, you can't change that. You can't change your sexual orientation. You *can* change your sex, but it involves a lot of surgery. I'm not sure what this has to do with whether or not racism is involved here.
There is no physical handicap in being pure-blood, half-blood, or Muggle-born. Sexual orientation has nothing to do with blood prejudice of wizards, either. Nor does gender. I’m not sure what point you are trying to make, here. ^_^;
For that matter, Muggleborns could avoid the prejudice against them by choosing not to enter the WW. They shouldn't have to do that, of course, but they do possess that option. Like immigrants usually do.
That option doesn’t change their blood status (whether they are a considered a Muggle-born or not). The fact that they could avoid wizarding world prejudice (assuming they don’t come into contact with wizards) by not entering the wizarding world doesn’t make the prejudice based on their blood, any less racist. Nor does it make racism against immigrants any less racist if they can avoid it by staying in their country of origin. Like I said, racism and xenophobia (anti-immigrantism) intersect a lot.
What does it matter what they call it?
If it doesn’t matter, then why the resistance? It cuts both ways.
For what it's worth, I don't care about this nearly as much as I presumably seem to. However, I'm not at all convinced that racism is a good analogy for the prejudice against Muggleborns.
Sounds like we’re going to have to agree to disagree, then. *shrugs* No big.
How about “in addition” rather than “rather”? Can we agree that blood prejudice is an issue of racism in addition to other kinds of prejudice? ‘Cause I’m not arguing against that. I just think the racism aspect is very important.
If you possess some kind of handicap, you can't change that. You can't change your sexual orientation. You *can* change your sex, but it involves a lot of surgery. I'm not sure what this has to do with whether or not racism is involved here.
There is no physical handicap in being pure-blood, half-blood, or Muggle-born. Sexual orientation has nothing to do with blood prejudice of wizards, either. Nor does gender. I’m not sure what point you are trying to make, here. ^_^;
For that matter, Muggleborns could avoid the prejudice against them by choosing not to enter the WW. They shouldn't have to do that, of course, but they do possess that option. Like immigrants usually do.
That option doesn’t change their blood status (whether they are a considered a Muggle-born or not). The fact that they could avoid wizarding world prejudice (assuming they don’t come into contact with wizards) by not entering the wizarding world doesn’t make the prejudice based on their blood, any less racist. Nor does it make racism against immigrants any less racist if they can avoid it by staying in their country of origin. Like I said, racism and xenophobia (anti-immigrantism) intersect a lot.
What does it matter what they call it?
If it doesn’t matter, then why the resistance? It cuts both ways.
For what it's worth, I don't care about this nearly as much as I presumably seem to. However, I'm not at all convinced that racism is a good analogy for the prejudice against Muggleborns.
Sounds like we’re going to have to agree to disagree, then. *shrugs* No big.