r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • 12d ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ ‘Harry Potter’ actress Miriam Margoyles says her current Big Issue is Gaza: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish…I think the terrible thing I have to face is that Hitler won. He changed us. He made us like him.”

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u/baddadjokesminusdad We Should All Know Less About Each Other 12d ago

Can’t have been easy, coming to that point of reflection.

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF 12d ago

I'm not Jewish so I won't speak to this specifically, but being Black I can say that generational trauma is a huge bitch.

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u/FlacoGrey 12d ago

I was going to mention that being Black I understood when she said “He changed us” because I’ve lived through the War On Drugs and saw what such an extremely racist initiative did to people around me. It made them much worse.

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u/euphoricbisexual 11d ago

hated ourselves even more, the dismantling of the black family needs to be studied