Because it’s IO9, they have a history of that sort of thing. Critical voices that don’t support the thing that they want to be critical of are rarely un-grey.

Well shit man, that just hit me like a ton of bricks. So you’re telling me that this story about 11 year old kids going to magic wizarding school is nonsense and meaningless? This is life altering.

Neither do I. If she had left Native Americans out people would be complaining about that instead. I guess the internet was having a boring friday and needed something to be offended about.

Ooh. You stretched your patience to listen to the “Native American complaints” but draw the line at “segregation.” Over at FreeRepublic, “pearl clutching” is shorthand for “political correctness.”

Yeah, all I'm hearing is: "ME LIKE RULES! ME NOT LIKE WHEN UPPITY WOMAN BREAK RULE! UGH UGH!"

My geographical location has nothing to do with my ability to make moral judgements. How ridiculously condescending of you, and exactly the kind of insane moral logic I’m talking about.

Guess what? Loius CK is a fucking comedian. If you want to call someone out for hurtful speech, do so, but I grow weary of the ever-increasing list of shit I can’t talk about because someone, somewhere with paper-think skin may get offended by it.

Again... SAYS WHO?

Says who? Rowling has no more obligation to American or British real history than the White Wolf RPG designers had, or the guy who wrote about Lincoln being a Vampire Hunter, or Harry Turtledove. IT IS FICTION!

I’m sure the Aztec Blood Magi would have something to say about this animal and plant magic nonsense.

USA didn't exist back then, but USMA did: The United States of MAGIC America.

As somebody who doesn’t live in the USA and is therefore not drowning in a morass of racial neuroses, I don’t find anything remotely offensive about Rowling’s description of Native American magic.

At least this article is filed appropriately. It starts out re-iterating already-discussed problems with J.K. Rowlings generalizations of Native Americans, lumping them all up as a single group, etc, etc.

I love Harry Potter so much but it doesn’t scale. It works in the confines of a school in a small country. Trying to apply it world wide is where you run into massive problems because not everything can fit into it’s sandbox (how would the magical community explain the Holocaust?). American history is particularly…

What part of “fictional history” did you not get? You know, I was willing o listen to the Native American complaints. I really was.