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1949, 26 Sep 16

Snowflake Complains About Harry Potter Mural

What kind of completely infantile morons are we raising who would actually submit a complaint like this?

A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student had a serious complaint for his campus’ official “Hate Response Team”: he was “very upset” by a Harry Potter mural in a college dorm.

The mural, in the Laux Residence Hall, depicts Neville Longbottom, a character from the Harry Potter films. The nerdy Neville was played by actor Matthew Lewis, who blossomed into a notable hunk post-puberty. The mural shows him as both a geeky boy and an attractive young man — transformed, according to the mural’s caption, by a stay at the Laux Residence Hall itself.

The depiction of this metamorphosis “represents our ideal society and everything I am trying to fight against,” wrote the offended student, whose name is redacted. “It represents white power. Man power. Cis power. Able power. Class power. ECT [sic] ect. I am angry that I know the people who put this mural up, and I am anger [sic] because I know the people who let this mural be put up. Like I said earlier, maybe I am being a little sensitive, but it is how I feel. This represents, to me, our society, and I do not want it up on this wall. Why do we need a BEFORE and AFTER?”

Thankfully, the moral remains up despite the complaint, according to the story. I know it is popular to say that everyone’s feelings are valid and worthy, but that simply isn’t true. The correct response to a complaint like this is, “your complaint is idiotic. You are an effin’ adult now. Grow up and act like one.”

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1949, 26 September 2016

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