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i mean yeah if you've never read the books it's pretty cringe to say stuff like that. you don't know how slavery is portrayed in the books, you havent read them.
I can criticize the books for that because I've read them and know how the main character is literally a slave owner, but for all you know I made that up.
How is it cringe at all? Learning about the house-elf underclass and calling it dogshit does not require you to imbibe the works of jowling kowling Rowling
it's cringe because you literally don't know what you're talking about. like in the literal sense, you do not know of that which you speak. no investigation, no right to speak and so on.
a work featuring a slave class does not make it bad or pro-slavery. harry potter is bad and pro-slavery, but it's only not cringe for me to say that because I've read the books and know what I'm talking about. if you dont know what you're talking about you shouldn't talk about it.
And I’m saying, you can learn the positive and negative qualities of a work without consuming it directly. We’re talking past each other
Personally I would never trust the opinion of any person on any book they haven't read, and I would find it embarrassing for them to speak with authority on the topic of a book they haven't read. It doesn't matter what book or what context. Which other books do you express strong opinions about without having read them?