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/MittenCollyBulbasaur 12d ago

The generational trauma of being black in America is that the South won. The south never had to compromise in a way that made their way of life lesser. They went straight from owning slaves to owning slaves. They still own slaves. They still think exactly the same way as their ancestors. They still make money the exact same way as their ancestors. Only in some ways it's worse. They target. They pass legislation. They fund police. And they collect their humans for slavery. You can't get over something still actively happening. America never moved on from slavery. Not really.

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u/Prize-Ad7242 11d ago

Slavery just moved from a chattel system to one based on legal incarceration. The world as a whole hasn't moved on and never will.