Fantastic Beasts 2: Backlash as Nagini twist is branded 'racist'
 

A ridiculous outrage for the sake of outrage, hypocritical too since I doubt the likes of Ellen Oh would have spoken out had it been a character of a different ethnicity.

It's just another case of people being outraged without knowing the context (Read: Insatiable) and it only cheapens the cause and weakens it which is annoying in itself since it's these people who desperately want to be outraged that damages the message because they need to lash out and shame people. Pathetic.

The more of the article I read, the more I was like, am I reading this right? Is this a joke :skull:

Everything’s ‘problematic’ or ‘racist’ these days

So embarrassing

For example, this post is soo problematic :fist:

What a scream

Nagini used to be human??

People will whinge about anything these days..

Though if the transformations are at will, how is it a)different from being a snake Animagus and b)a "curse" ?

It’s hilarious and extremely sad

It’s a blood curse. Eventually she knows she will be a snake forever.

You could find racism in literally anything if you’re looking for it..

Hell you can see unicorns in the clouds if you stare at them long enough

I mean whether or not it's racist or insensitive, it's ****ing stupid and it feels like a hilarious parody or Rowling retcon. Almost as dumb as the entirety of Cursed Child <3

The same people outraged over this would have been just as outraged if a white actress was given the role over her so

Also just bc I can't resist

"Reaching" tbh.

Good grief.....even Harry Potter is no longer sacred.

Ridiculous reaching......

I think my favourite of these is an Onion article in which JK Rowling completely oversteps her mark by announcing that Daenerys from Game of Thrones has Chrohn's disease

Screaming, the people complaining are an embarrassment to the current generation

Umm I’m so outraged that Voldemort didn’t have a nose cause it just doesn’t represent people who’s noses have collapsed because of cocaine abuse and that problematic!

:flutter:

Shuts them down so eloquently!

It's not at will, it's a slow transformation into a beast. Hence, by the time of the Harry Potter stories Nagini is in snake form only.

It's a curse because you have no control over it and are born with it.

I mean I think it's totally possible to enjoy Harry Potter as a franchise while also recognizing that it's a bunch of straight white cis bull**** and acknowledging that JK Rowling is hilariously awful at this point with her absurd retconning to appeal to the left. Like "Lupin being a werewolf is actually an extended metaphor for the HIV/AIDS" crisis is a laughably stupid point to throw out there in 2016, but then it's also kinda offensive when you're comparing AIDS to a condition where you lose control of your body and start attacking people once a month, and then it's even more offensive when you consider that Greyback was a werewolf and also pretty much a child predator.

...u WOT mate..??...

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NOT straight white cis bull****

Didnt Snape get fingered in Operation Yewtree?

They'd have kicked off if it was a white female. Or a non-white male. Basically Nagini had to be a white male or else everyone would have kicked off.

Except then they'd have kicked off because they cast another white male. :think:


Then again, it's a ****ing daft twist anyway and everything outside of the main Harry Potter series canon is cash-cow trash.. so...

It was in "The Half-Blood Prince", I think.

mess did she really say that? :skull:

Rowling is hardly the first person to use Werewolves / Vampires as an STI metaphor, though, so I don't know why the focus is so much on that (well, rather, I do; the huge commercial success and visibility of the series... but she's far from the first).

Aspects of Vampire mythology come ENTIRELY from the fear of sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis / other blood-borne disease.

But then they'd whinge it's transphobic, as Nagini is referred to as female in the books.

I’ve read Harry Potter start to finish, back to front and never considered Nagini to even be a slave to Voldemort. There was always a fondness towards her and besides, you wouldn’t put a piece of your soul in a servant. People are just moaning for the sake of moaning.

True; she was the closest thing to an "equal" or "friend" he had (in his mind)... so really, it's a good thing? :think:

Absolute idiocy. Seems like a desperate attempt to be fake woke, when actually there's no racism here.

People bang on about representation and when they get it, they moan. Smh

Oh gods, now this mess is sticking her oar in, I think that's a pretty big flag the arguments are just stupid.

The last part answers your question. The difference is her control over it is brief and she will become the beast permanently.

The Malfoy Family and Voldemort are whiter than white and are the epitome of the Slytherin house - villains, snakes, all of that.
Is this a bloody joke? :facepalm:

Straight cis white?

The most bullsh*t is coming from people who think every story/series/franchise must have a representative for every bloody person on the planet, which is impossible. No matter what diverse group of people JK chose to write about there would be someone somewhere criticising her for leaving them out, so I guess unless writers can include everyone they should just stop writing.

FYI, you're taking the HIV comparison far too literally. The only comparison that was made was that the blood disease suffered in the universe of the stories creates a stigma around wizards in a similar way to what HIV/AIDs does/did to a person in the real world. And that comparison was first made a long time ago.
To take that and say "Oooh, she's calling AIDS sufferers werewolves" is ridiculous hysteria on your part.

Like the comparisons always drawn between Voldemort and his hatred of Muggles with that of Hitler and the Jews have been around since the books were first released. She's not making a literal comparison.

Thinking about it, suggesting that it's racist is even more racist.

I've had to switch off with the bullsh*t comments about Dumbledore at the beginning.

His relationship with Grinelwald isn't addressed in the new movie, because they don't actually share any scenes and their relationship isn't the focal point of the story. BUT it will be in a future instalment. This is only part 2 of a 5 part franchise.

But, hey, don't let that get in the way of people making ridiculously hysterical youtube videos.

Also, "You can have people of colour as villains but you should have people of colour as good people too!" Erm, there are at least two POC protagonists too.

Edit - Also, why is this white woman getting defensive on behalf of Asians?