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[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

(for whatever reason, my brain remembered this as, like, a centaur and an elf and, maybe, a goblin underneath but I think this still qualifies for genocidal eugenicism, nonetheless).

You remembered correctly, kinda. The "Magic Is Might" statue was installed later on, but during Order Of The Phoenix in the ministry there's the 'Fountain of Magical Brethren'. It's a wizard and a witch that are being stared up at adoringly by a centaur, goblin, and an elf.

Which I wouldn't call genocidal eugenicism, but it's definitely problematic in a different way. I think I remember Dumbledore pretty explicitly calling the statue a bad thing, but I don't remember exactly how or when.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

Oh, I meant that the muggles being made the throne, rather than other magical creatures, was still genocidal eugenicism (basically, still qualifies, even if I didn't remember correctly).

But the previous example you bring up is another case of what I was trying to highlight: the books are aware of the low-key prejudice present throughout the society. Both implicitly and explicitly (e.g. Dumbledore's highlight), it's aware that less overt forms of prejudice exists.

Which is what makes it never getting addressed, by the end of the books, so…I dunno, notable, in some capacity?

It'd be much more simple if we could just say that the books implicitly argue for the status quo but it's something more overt, instead. The books seem cognizant and aware of marginalization – both supremacist (à la Voldemort) and social/somewhat-systemic (various examples we've brought up) – yet there's a way in which even this awareness is tamped down to that's-just-the-way-it-is by not even arguing for it but just by…doing nothing about it. These microaggressions and prejudices are noticed though never confronted while we continue to socialize and interact with these people who express such bigotry and never gets resolved in any meaningful way, by the end.