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.

She lost me with the whole "It's not your world." Um, yes it is. JKR created this world. She can do with it what she likes. Bitch about it. Boycott it. Use it to educate. Whatever. But it's her story.

These creatures (apparently, as I’m far from an expert) draw power simply from the fear inspired by their existence, so even talking about them (with rational, intelligent people, anyway) makes them stronger.

The assumption is that the spiritual beliefs of Native Americans are somehow out of bounds when it comes to discussion, criticism, or creation of new stories.
Sorry, but that’s not the case. If I can make up stories about Christian legends, I can make up stories about Native legends. if they don’t like them, perhaps…

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.

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!

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.

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