10 reasons why the wizarding world in Harry Potter is actuallyy nationalist, traditionalist and essentialist, and not a liberal SJW world.
1. It's the norm for wizards - good and bad - to want segregation from muggles (non-magic people). Nobody even suggests integration.
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1. It's the norm for wizards - good and bad - to want segregation from muggles (non-magic people). Nobody even suggests integration.
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2. The inclusion to the world is strictly tied to the your essence. If you have magic in you, you're in, and if not, you're out. You can't choose to be a wizard, just like you can't choose to be Icelandic, you need to be born into it.
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3. Squibs, meaning non-magic children born in wizard families, are the pariah of their world. Just their name sounds pathetic. They're looked down upon, pitied and end up doing manual labor in the world, so they're not fully included.
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4. Those who want to subjugate muggles and eradicate muggle-borns are the bad guys, but the good guys want segregation too. So the message isn't against racism but against supremacy and imperialism, hurting other people. That is in absolute harmony with nationalist values.
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5. The wizarding world is founded on nuclear families. Molly Weasley is the ideal mother, a very traditional one. Girls like girl stuff, boys like boy stuff. Girls like boys and boys like girls. There are no gay relationships, transgenders or anything.
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6. SJW activism is portrayed as morally wrong and stupid, when Hermione tries to "liberate" the house elves who don't want to be liberated, because it's in their nature to serve people. The message is very essentialist and against forcing liberal values on others.
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7. Good women are feminine, traditional women. Bad women, like Bellatrix Lestrange, go against traditional norms, good ones don't. Even bad women, like Narcissa Malfoy, can find their goodness through their natural role as a mother. Motherhood was Narcissa's redemption.
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8. Good men are very traditional too. They're strong, decisive and show care for both family and their people. Mostly they find good girls to marry and start a family. Both men and women are ready to die defending their families.
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9. In The Order of the Phoenix Dolores Umbridge rules like SJW's, with a tyranny masked in politeness. Politicians delude themselves about imminent threat (Voldemort / in our world, immigration), and the media plays along & smears anyone who tries to warn people of it.
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10. Good guys don't look like SJW's, they look like nationalists. They're not agender pansexual furries but normal people who hold on to their traditions and value family above all. They have traditional gender roles and family values, and they're unconsumerist, too.
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There is some liberal and anti-racist stuff going on, but it's all restricted into a very nationalist and traditionalist framework. The heroes aren't out to open the borders for muggles or destroy nuclear family or gender roles. They fully accept the traditional framework.
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There is superficial anti-racism, like pure-blood wizards marrying muggle-born witches, but here we have the framework too: they're all magic people, not muggles, so that liberalism in partner-selection is actually strictly limited to magic people.
So the books accept the fact that there's only room for certain amount of liberalism when the society is functional and people adhere to traditional social norms. Without them it'd be chaos, so nobody tries to break the traditionalist foundation of their world.
Umbridge & the minister of magic work exactly like SJW Karens work in real life. They silence people under the pretence of politeness and avoiding "dangerous speech", choose to ignore a mortal threat out of cowardice or malice, and attack those who don't do so.
So the end battle isn't a battle against racism, like low IQ liberals, who haven't even read the books, choose to look at it. It's a fight for the traditional order of their world and for family and loved ones. Just like any freedom fight fought by nationalists.
