• Genius
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    3 hours ago

    Yes there shouldn’t be. Harry Potter should be forgotten.

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      2 hours ago

      I don’t know… Should we just forget about stuff? When I grew up there was kind of a lot of casual homophobia, racism and stuff (and it’s not entirely gone). I think it is healthy not to forget how things were and see how we progressed. I do not want to glorify the parts of HP that are bad in the ways that you so well enumerated. But I don’t think it is healthy to forget the entire thing. Remember fondly the parts that can be, and see with a better understanding the parts that cannot.

      I now rarely think about HP. As previously said, there are a lot of other things to experience. The same way that I rarely think about my childhood, because there is so much to experience rn.

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        2 hours ago

        Everything will be forgotten in time. Such is the relentless turning of the clock. I don’t believe in censorship, but I do think that we should be mindful of how we engage in preservation. A Lemmy instance is not a museum. Let Harry Potter be interned in dusty mausoleums, to be remembered mindfully. There is nothing mindful about the original post here. Memes are living, breathing culture. Slay the beast.