I tend to stay away from the plagiarism argument, just because you can make a strong case that real human originality is exceptionally rare and most art is minimal transformation of a wide array of source material. Everything from the Illiad to Star Wars is derivative.
That said, her treatment of minotiries in Harry Potter is straight plagiarism of Confederate and Nazi ideology on slaves and untermensch. It surprised me that people were shocked at her “some people can’t be women” stance when she continuously played the “some people aren’t people” angle for laughs.
and the “but they want to be slaves. they are happier” bullshit. at least it was house elves and she didn’t have it be the castle brownies or something like that. her editor (read: dog) probably talked her out of that one
There is that, but her plagiarism was kinda close to Vanilla Ice saying that he didn’t sample Under Pressure. A little aggressive, especially for her inflated ego and billions of dollars.
Absolutely agree about the other part though. She didn’t need the money to make her a shitty person, that was all original.
I tend to stay away from the plagiarism argument, just because you can make a strong case that real human originality is exceptionally rare and most art is minimal transformation of a wide array of source material. Everything from the Illiad to Star Wars is derivative.
That said, her treatment of minotiries in Harry Potter is straight plagiarism of Confederate and Nazi ideology on slaves and untermensch. It surprised me that people were shocked at her “some people can’t be women” stance when she continuously played the “some people aren’t people” angle for laughs.
and the “but they want to be slaves. they are happier” bullshit. at least it was house elves and she didn’t have it be the castle brownies or something like that. her editor (read: dog) probably talked her out of that one
There is that, but her plagiarism was kinda close to Vanilla Ice saying that he didn’t sample Under Pressure. A little aggressive, especially for her inflated ego and billions of dollars.
Absolutely agree about the other part though. She didn’t need the money to make her a shitty person, that was all original.