[ SECRET POST #4337 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4337 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think because it's a made up slur, some people forget to think about it - canonically - in the same terms they think about real slurs. Because for us it doesn't have that weight, even though it would for the characters.

So, like, I can't even imagine calling someone a racial slur, or a homophobic slur or anything like that. Because I have been socialized to know that it's a horrible, hateful thing that you Just Don't Do, no matter what. Whereas it's not impossible to imagine lashing out and calling someone...idk, like, a loser, I guess. Or a pathetic asshole. Words that would be designed to hurt, but that aren't actually slurs. And I think a lot of the time when people say Snape was just lashing out when he called Lily a mudblood, they're thinking about the term mudblood more like we think of words like pathetic, loser, weirdo. I mean, they know it's a slur, but they're not thinking of it with the societal and sociological weight of a true slur.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're 100% right. Although I would even say they see it as a stronger, yet still less offensive slur. Because that's what it is to us, since we know it's fiction - it doesn't actually hold any weight beyond it not being something you should say, the same way yo really shouldn't tell your friend "no one asked you, asshole." Or "bitch." Hell, I even remember when HP fans used to have "Keep Out Mudblood" keychains. (Which was weirdly contradictory to me.)