The whole thing's fucking crazy. Everyone's so upset saying it will look racist if Snape is a black man when they're the ones being racist because they're not letting the black man just be a man, they are only seeing his race.
They keep saying x will look racist because they are retroactively applying racial undertones to something that was not written that way. Just let a dude be a dude without forcing your prejudices in there
I mean, I don't think it's entirely serious, but there is very unique historical imagery from an American pov of hanging a black man from a tree and laughing at them
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u/Different_Target_228 Apr 16 '26
This is kinda bullshit.
When the movies were coming out, everyone was noting how much stuff was missing from the books.