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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

She wrote a whole series about how bigotry is bad but in retrospect, it feels like she didn't really understand why bigotry is bad. She just needed her children's books to have a moral message and she made a very surface level parallel to the holocaust. Then years later, she showed her ignorance about the holocaust by denying that transgender people were a target.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Her main protagonist is a rich jock who grows up to be a cop. What did you expect?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Probably the most problematic thing in the Harry Potter books is the pro-slavery propaganda with the house elves, which the filmmakers wisely omitted