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Gremlynn posted...

"Big stretch, that could be ANY horn and the same year thing is a big stretch too!" people say about a fantasy race that in most franchises is no more than two degrees of separation from 1940s racist caricatures of jewish people at best.

I don't disagree that goblins are pretty damn close to caricatures, but this is absolutely a reach.

Like I said two hundred posts ago, I very much doubt that Rowling would even be aware of a 1600s German race riot in the mid-90s, much less slip a single reference to it in her children's book. Realistically, she picked a random year and because the human race is garbage, something horribly antisemitic happens in virtually every year of history.

I'm by no means an expert in shofars, but the horn in the game bears only the vaguest resemblance to one picture I found.

That tweet about milk is just fucking nonsense. I don't speak German, but googling tells me that dichmilch is actually translated as sour milk and whole milk is called vollmilch. She's correct only in that the dude's name is fat milk.

And this is all undercut by the fact that this reference is so obscure that it could have been an ARG, so why even include it? What neo-Nazi is playing this game, reads this description, and goes, "Hohoho, delightfully devlish, Rowling, I know you're referencing that gingerbread baker who killed them jews four centuries ago."