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>JK Rowling Airbrushed From Pop Culture Museum’s Harry Potter Display For “Transphobic Views” https://deadline.com/2023/08/jk-rowling-airbrushed-from-pop-cultu
by palmfacehn 2y ago
>JK Rowling Airbrushed From Pop Culture Museum’s Harry Potter Display For “Transphobic Views”
https://deadline.com/2023/08/jk-rowling-airbrushed-from-pop-culture-museum-harry-potter-display-for-alleged-transphobic-views-1235455925/ https://deadline.com/2023/08/jk-rowling-airbrushed-from-pop-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoYour Wikipedia link is very useful since it clarifies that Damnatio memoriae refers to exclusion "from official accounts".
- palmfacehn 2y ago>Today's best known examples of damnatio memoriae from antiquity concern chiselling stone inscriptions or deliberately omitting certain information from them. >The term is used in modern scholarship to cover a wide array of official and unofficial sanctions through which the physical remnants and memories of a deceased individual are destroyed. Certainly not exclusively from official accounts. Not sure what your point here is?
- immibis 2y agoWhy the scare quotes?
- palmfacehn 2y agoThe quotes are from the article's title.