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Sure, people who want to think black men are inherently violent will think Will Smith slapping Chris Rock proves them right. They’ll think any black man slapping anyone proves then right. So as long as there’s at least one black man somewhere who slaps people, you need to come up with a different criticism.

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If you gave me the chance to do one thing to try to salvage Harry Potter as a franchise, it would be to have major nonhuman characters openly challenge the laws against nonhumans learning magic. I’d pick this even over canon trans characters, because “nobody is trans” is sadly predictable as of now, whereas everything to do with nonhumans was a massive self-inflicted embarrassment. It ended up feeling like a colonialism metaphor with “benevolent” colonizers as the good guys and “exploitative” colonizers under the exact same system as the bad guys.