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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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Harry Potter is an odd series in retrospect because it's got these heavy-handed progressive elements in it but it also had elements that were right-wing even by the standards of the time that people just didn't care about en-masse.

It was one of those things from when I was younger like steampunk or Tim Burton or V for Vendetta that provided an acceptable middlebrow way to flirt with white identity if you were a liberal, but got found out eventually.
gpt
i never thought about steampunk in that fashion but as soon as i read your comment i absolutely agreed with it. i love the steampunk vibe and art still, but the narratives and deeper lore always did run in the same lane as colonialism/manifest destiny type ethos. enjoyable on the surface and fun to get into for a bit, but i definitely see a few more steps into it becoming a steeper slope.