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Ep. 161 - Anti-Semitism in Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Fantasy w/ Eric Silver

Potterless

Mike Schubert

Comedy, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.88.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Eric Silver of Join the Party uses examples from Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and more to show how Anti-Semitism is present in the fantasy genre. He shares what's bad, explains why it's troublesome, and shows how we can avoid these issues going forward! Topics include: Teen Miss Dance of New Jersey, Anthony Goldstein, Wizards of the Coast, Wakanda, Christmas Princes, Orlando Bloom the Elf, Yiddish, schmeckles, and more!

Eric's article: https://www.heyalma.com/dungeons-dragons-has-an-antisemitism-problem/

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0:46.0

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0:49.4

First, I hinted at this last week, but we will be doing a Potter-less fundraiser coming

0:53.3

up soon. We will have details for it next week. So get ready. I'll say to the intro of

0:57.8

next episode. I'll post it on social media and stuff like that. But the gears are turning.

1:01.0

And I'm excited to make this happen. Also, I just want to lay out the groundwork for

1:04.0

what this episode is. This is a standalone episode that Eric Silver worked on the research

1:08.4

for. It was for an article that he is writing that will be released online, depending on

1:13.3

when you're listening to this. It might already be out there. If it is out there, it'll

1:16.4

be a link in this episode. If not, here's a preview, I guess. But basically, Eric did

1:20.7

a bunch of research into anti-semitism in fantasy as a whole, but then also is able to relate

1:25.9

that to Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Dungeons and Dragons, and more. So this episode starts

1:30.8

with a comedic story that Eric makes me tell everyone that has nothing to do with anything

1:34.9

that we're about to talk about. It's from my childhood. Then, Eric will talk about

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