how is this surprising? HP is literally neoliberal propoganda valorzing the fukayama britiain of the 90s.

the fact that the story was designed in that way literally makes it worse though. depicting those who use violence against their oppression as ‘oh no actually they are extremists who want to oppress the rest of the people’ is like a very common way to essentially say ‘using violence to gain equality is a no-no’ in…

I like how the headline means it doesn’t try to take stances on morality, but can also be read that all of its stances are immoral.

The fact that nobody in-world seems to respond to the MC becoming a murderer with the killing curse just indicates to me that the wizarding world is already evil and corrupt, no matter how they see themselves. Pretty much everything I hear about the game makes it clear that world might have a thin veneer of seeming “go…

Sounds like typical mealy mouthed liberalism tut tutting marginalized groups for not being courteous enough to deserve rights. 

So it’s like a game where you play as Jefferson Davis fighting John Brown for the good of African Americans got it

as preached by Jowling? Sure. According to her (and her books), there are not bad systems or institutions, just bad individuals. So just put a good individual in charge of the institution and bam! Everything is good forever. That’s why Harry Potter ends up a (good?) cop.

I hope Harry Potter spent the rest of his days pondering just how much Snape wanted to fuck his mom to do what he did in the books.

well, considering that the HP books are the kind of trashy liberal fantasy where maintaining the status quo is the absolute goal (up to making the main protagonist a literal cop), this is just brand consistency.

They were more concerned with padding their wallets than they were bothered by being complicit in racism. Some people only have morals and principles until you are offer them a paycheck.

It really feels like “being embarrassed by something you wrote 15 years ago” is the normal, healthy response.

I just love that all Adam Sessler had to do was apologize and say he’s not that same person anymore or say absolutely nothing.

Sessler, just own up to the obvious racism and work better. it’s not that hard dude. 

Because its a sentance we all understand the meaning of? Do you not?

It’s a perfectly acceptable sentence.

Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb...

Suburbs are intended to give houses enough yard space to raise kids comfortably in private spaces instead of public spaces (parks), and to let richer people separate themselves from poorer ones (white flight). They force you to buy a car as a side effect, not a design feature. It’s true that they weren’t designed to…

To be fair, Shenmue was essentially proto-Yakuza

Beers with friends in three corner store followed by Bulgogi sounds so perfect!

For better and worse, one word: Shenmue.