Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Remember the flying car in the first movie?

That places HP to about 1965 to 70-ish, so no CDs, but yes, there's no hip guy in the school turning up with Beatles singles afaik.

Originally Posted by WWWP

My first sex dream was about Snape

Originally Posted by The Batlord

No, he is. His ultimate point is that bad things happen in history but you can't let that rule your perception of the present. This has been the general view in my country of the American/Native American "problem" for a very long time and it is fostered by a significant majority of citizens from politicians to individual citizens to make it okay to sit on this land and not feel guilty.

The difference between this and the Holocaust is that the Holocaust is seen by the entire world as being a depraved, horrifying thing that can only be denied by fringe crazy people, and so the only people who deny it are fringe crazy people. But in America it's totally seen as reasonable to whitewash our history without being a fringe crazy so there isn't the same immediate condemnation of anyone who says "You know it wasn't as bad as they say." It's the same difference between being in a cult vs. being a Catholic. Both might believe in nonsense but the public perception makes being a Catholic totally reasonable.

And for it to be acceptable to the public it can't be as hardline as pure Holocaust denial. There has to be room for accepting that yes this thing happened and that is bad, but accepting this and that with "reason and nuance" allows for reason and nuance to let genocide slide in under the door unremarked. That is what Ant is doing.



Not really. A few decades ago it was totally acceptable to have Westerns showing Injun savages being put down by heroic cowboys. Now we just don't have those movies but we also don't have movies about what we did to them cause we don't like to talk about it. The best we have is mother****ing Dances with Wolves where we fetishize Injuns with a white savior to show how we can all be friends if you ignore how it all turns out in the end.

Americans are absolutely not trained by any political or cultural narrative to be triggered by Native American genocide. We're trained to just ignore it. If I went out and asked a hundred people on the street about their thoughts on Wounded Knee or the Trail of Tears I'd probably be greeted with 95 people asking me what Wounded Knee or the Trail of Tears are.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You sound like Buffy after they dragged her back from Heaven.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.

Originally Posted by MarieMarie

LOL Snape is not handsome and what you call his confidence is a facade to hide his inferiority complex.

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Remember the flying car in the first movie?

That places HP to about 1965 to 70-ish, so no CDs, but yes, there's no hip guy in the school turning up with Beatles singles afaik.

Originally Posted by MarieMarie

I don't see clear evidence that the we can't let bad things rule our prexeption of the present thing was essentially what he was saying but if so then yes, I would agree with you. And about the influence of being an American, what you're talking about isn't what I meant. I was talking about you personally as an American who is aware of this being confronted a lot with genocide denial. Let's just leave it there.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

That can be said about a lot of confident men, nobody will tell the difference not knowing him. Unless he's just a smarmy prick to everybody. Which even that get's confused as confidence. You really underestimate how many people get sucked into abusive relationships with people that act condescending like him.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I was called upon by the muses for greatness.

Originally Posted by Frownland

I'm bald, ja.

Originally Posted by WWWP

Dumbledore was gay. He had a lover when he was young, but was celibate before he even became headmaster.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

I knew he was gay but didn't know the rest.

Was it Hagrid?