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That sums it up, doesn’t it? It characterizes the slapdash claims of antisemitism pretty well. It also catches the bizarre observation that “you can’t make white enough people” from last week’s thread. Actually, that last one is somehow remaining relevant, as commenters can’t seem to stop debating how hot the characters are or aren’t.
People are heavily invested in mining this game for anything they can use.
Also, I don’t think “trans witch” is supposed to mean magical-ability-fluid. It means a character who is magical and also trans.
Hmm. Transmagical?
Either way, kinda gets at the point that there's no known way in the original HPverse for a non-magic-user to gain magical abilities, so there's clearly a binary which can't be hopped across merely by modifying one's body to match their internal beliefs, and so it would be a little ridiculous to portray a person who was born a muggle but later became a wizard in the series.
Would there exist wizards who identify as muggles and thus refuse to use their magic to better conform with their identity?
Show me some books or games that examine that!
And THAT comes across as a way to try and further tar JKR in a way that gets the Jewish community aligned against her. I don't think the people making the complaint truly care if there's serious antisemitism afoot, it's just a tool/weapon for beating the enemy.
Although you can maybe see a point there if you squint and look sideways at the goblin characterization as these ugly little creatures who maintain a separate/parallel society and run all the banks.
But then they start trying to compile 'evidence' for it in a way that starts to resemble Qanon posters.
Right, and I’m saying nothing about this game or its surrounding conversation suggests that people can or should be transmagical. It’s kind of a separate hypothetical.
I concur that the mining expedition is intended to give ammunition against Current Enemy.
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Well, it's looking increasingly plausible that some writing committee in US corporate HQ made the decision to include such a character, presumably in a meeting that opened with mandatory pronoun announcements and an "indigenous land acknowledgment", then handed all the work off to some eastern european programmer who decided to have a little fun
>trannies went into the code and found out that the NPC character model's name is "MrGirl"
I have no way to verify that tidbit of information as of now.
But I would expect that the majority of players aren't going to come away with a diminished view of trans people so not sure what that would achieve in any event.
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