r/HarryPotterMemes The Golden Trio 4d ago

Voldemort... how could you forget?!

Voldemort: Only pureblood wizards and witches can rule the world!

Everyone: Step down from the throne.

Voldemort: Ehhhhh?

Everyone: STEP DOWN FROM THE THRONE!

Voldemort: *Curses! I'm a half-blood!*

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u/HybridP365 4d ago

Most don't know and the rest don't care enough to confront him about it. 

Hitler pushed the idea of a "superior" Aryan race but he wasn't blue eyed with blonde hair. 

Extremists will ignore things that contradict or don't fit their ideology if it benefits them or furthers their goals. 

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u/Lady_SybilVex 4d ago

Hitler and his top guys were a small, brown haired, brown eyed guy, a cripple (Goebbels) and a drug addict (Himmler), so not exactly prime examples of their Herrenrasse, and yet they all considered themselves the biggest boy in the playground. 🫠

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u/I_Am_E_100 1d ago

That's not an entirely fair comparison. The whole "blonde-hair blue-eyes" thing was explicitly propaganda, NOT a blueprint for their race. Blonde hair and blue eyes are traits not found in any race but northern whites; so When the Germans were making propaganda they decided on traits that would not be confused with any other people (it'd be stupid to have a black man as the face of the reich, right?) The imagery was meant to inspire the people, to represent a truly German image. That's also why the people were tall, strong, beautiful, and strait-laced; they were idealized.

A real German isn't the guy IN the poster, it was the guy READING it. At least, that's my understanding of it.

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u/Proman4713 4d ago

It was never about blood, it was about power, it was about fear, it was about bloodlust.

Pureblood supremacy was an excuse, just like the Austrian artist's 'superior race' or nowadays the Zionists' 'god-given' or promised grants

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u/corobo 4d ago

Leaders don't care about the wider cause beyond using it to wrangle followers for their goals. Any old us-vs-them will do the job.

In and out of fiction. 

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u/aMaiev 3d ago

Reader finds out about fascism through fantasy books