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greenergrass_ (greenergrass_) wrote,
@ 2011-04-12 19:32:00

I'm honestly not shocked that the store was vandalized. Obviously there are going to be people who are against it opening up. And some people choose the cowardly way to show it rather than a way that would identify them in the community.

Anonymous messages of intolerance won't get anyone anywhere. All they do are convince the general public that there are ignorant bigots out there who don't have the balls to file an actual complaint.

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Daphne

healerdorny
2011-04-13 06:12 am UTC (link)

Are you going to rush in and buy a computer on opening day?

Here's the one unpopular thing I want to say but won't because intolerance is ironically not tolerated, even though I'm not for vandalizing the place. What's this going to do to places that sell traditional things? We've got like, a dozen shops in magical communities dedicated to just that, and if quills and inks and parchment and owls and wirelesses are now out of vogue, what happens to the shops and people who sell them?

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Julia

greenergrass_
2011-04-13 11:17 am UTC (link)

Obviously not. The likelihood of me getting anything from there is slim to none.

I agree. I worry for the shops which sell things that are "outdated" according to the people who would live as muggles do. We all seem to get along just fine currently, so why do we need a change. I am not for vandalism, obviously, but I don't like that this shop is coming to Diagon.

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Daphne

healerdorny
2011-04-13 09:44 pm UTC (link)

It's not that I mind them being there so much as I think it's unfair to say this is the new right way, your things are archaic and therefore wrong. There's nothing wrong with a Floo connect or a dictoquill, the same way there's nothing wrong with a tellephone or a computer, if the magical versions work. I have half a mind to write an unsigned, reasonable letter to the editor, but I know all it would accomplish is more free publicity for the shop, and more people talking about how it's wrong to stand in the way of progress, nevermind that it's not what I'd have written.

Do you think they're going to start a Wizarding Tellevision Network, now? When they start putting every Quidditch match in them, that's when I'm buying one.

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	Julia greenergrass_ 2011-04-13 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	I pretty much agree with everything you're saying. And I would only consider getting a television if there was a lot of Quidditch involved. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fckmodesty 2011-04-14 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	I think the only people who were shocked are the people who thought that Voldemort being gone meant that everyone with his way of thinking suddenly disappeared. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greenergrass_ 2011-04-14 09:24 pm UTC (link)
	Hopefully there weren't that many misguided people out there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fckmodesty 2011-04-14 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	You just might be surprised. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	delucapride 2011-04-14 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	Even if there were people who were out enough to file any sort of actual, valid complaint regarding the existence of this store, they'd still end up viewed as the villain by all the overzealous people who think a small few against the idea of Muggle traditions in our community is the start of another war. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greenergrass_ 2011-04-14 09:11 pm UTC (link)
	Precisely. And because of this intolerance of differences of opinions and views, vandalism is probably going to be the only way people will try to get their point across. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

delucapride
2011-04-14 09:19 pm UTC (link)

Yes. And those who claim to be so tolerant - in this case the ones who love Muggles or have no issue with them will continue to think that their way is the only right way. Already look at how they've decided that because Donald Bellamy does not believe in mixing Muggle creations with our magic, he is apparently someone to be suspicious of. They're looking for something to get up in arms about. Never mind that the man has disagreed with the vandalism publicly.

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	greenergrass_ 2011-04-14 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	Because being intolerant and being an extremist are one and the same. At least, according to the "tolerant" they are. So Bellamy doesn't think we should mix Muggle creations with magic? He's right. Why else would be have an entire department at the Ministry for the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts? This whole thing isn't going to lead anywhere good. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

delucapride
2011-04-14 09:35 pm UTC (link)

Of course it's the same thing. I mean, isn't as if there are different levels to things of this nature, is there? Or as if people are different and will therefore have different personal beliefs. Vandalising the store is exactly the same as being against its existence. I believe some people are bit too caught up in thinking it would be such a great idea to realise this fact.

I don't believe it will either.

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