[ SECRET POST #2889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2889 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[(Anonymous)]

It certainly gives you more potential.

The point I'm trying to make is simply this: you can't compare wizards looking down on Muggles to white people looking down on black people because the former is actually rooted in reality while the latter isn't.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[(Anonymous)]

Are you insane? Of course it is rooted in reality.

Do you honestly think disabled people -- i.e., people who cannot do as many things as other people can do, whether physically or mentally -- have never been discriminated against on the basis of that disability? Treated as though they were inferior and that their needs were undeserving of accommodation? Locked up for it, even? It happens in reality all the goddamn time.

No, wizards looking down on muggles is not exactly like racism. Pure-bloods looking down on muggle-borns is more like racism, though (although, really, more like religious intolerance or cultural intolerance, since muggle-borns can pass for pure-bloods.)

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[dreemyweird]

High five!

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[(Anonymous)]

Of course they have experienced discrimination. But the point remains that there is a REASON people feel devastated when they're disabled by an accident. And that's because they're losing something. Or when parents find out their kid is disabled, they grieve. And if you had a way to fix it, they would take it. That doesn't mean they love their kid less, but that doesn't make their grief and pain illegitimate either.

But the parallels in the books have been more towards racism anyway, which is completely illogical to me.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[arcadiaego]

You really need to do some research into the persecution of disabled people throughout history so you can see why you're being offensive.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[beverlykatz]

It seems like you don't know a whole lot about disabilities, which is understandable; nobody's born knowing everything, and there are a lot of people who feel this way. But speaking as a disabled person, this is a really unpleasant, regressive attitude. I'm not somehow inferior because I can't do certain things that able-bodied people can. An able-bodied person is not inherently better or more valuable than me, and it's honestly pretty awful of you to say so.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[dreemyweird]

You know what you CAN compare this situation to, though? People looking down on the mentally disabled. By your logic, those with no disabilities are inherently "better" than those WITH disabilities (since they "can do everything the other version can and then some").

Potential shouldn't even figure among the freaking criteria when you're comparing two human beings in terms of worth.