Snapedom

I know you are done talking, so I don’t expect you to respond (or anyone else who is done talking), but I did want to deal with this (it broke my brain last night, so I left it be, for the time).

blood purists = white racists
Muggleborns = black people
Muggles = monkeys

To take this as a good analogy of blood prejudice in the WW as being like real-world racism is in itself offensive and racist because it implies that, just as Muggleborns are sudden magical sports arising from fully-Muggle unions, so black people would be the equivalent of sudden human sports arising from the breeding of two monkeys. Obviously that is a vile notion.

Even if we take that specific analogy you’ve made (and I would make some adjustments, but later on that), even if we take that analogy, that analogy is a good demonstration is why real world racism is vile and offensive and why HP blood prejudice is racism (and also similarly vile and offensive in the same kind of way real life racism is vile and offensive). Some real life white racists do think that black people (and/or other non-whites) are like monkeys (like some blood purists think Muggles are like pigs [“Muggle pig men”], so that analogy works with respect to how Muggles are seen by blood purists.

I would adjust it as follows, though:

~ blood purists = white racists = majority race bigots
~ pure-bloods = whites = majority race
~ half-bloods = whites with traceable non-white ancestry* = majority race with traceable minority race ancestry
~ Muggle-borns = mixed-race = mix of a majority race and minority race
~ Muggles = non-whites = minority race that is viewed by some racists as being non-human

* (who aren’t considered mixed-race by anyone other than extremists)

/OCD