I\u2019ve been reading Harry Potter lately. I\u2019m not going to bother explaining it because if you haven\u2019t heard of it you clearly don\u2019t care. Harry attends a school called Hogwarts, which is exclusively for wizards.<\/p>\n
To jump subjects for a bit, we are studying the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment in Constitutional Law. Today, we got to Brown v. Board of Education, a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the \u201cseparate-but-equal doctrine\u201d established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
When the Court approaches laws challenged with regard to race, they look first to see if there is a sufficient state interest, and if it is closely related to the purpose of the law. Very rarely to laws using race as a classification survive this strict scrutiny.<\/p>\n
Jumping back now, I posit that Hogwarts may be violating the Equal Protection clause. This is a bit of a stretch considering that Hogwarts is in England and out of the jurisdiction of a U.S. court and the school is fictional. But\u2026 but\u2026 but\u2026<\/p>\n
The book sets up wizards to be a separate race from muggles, the later of which are non-wizards. And the school is exclusively for wizards. Muggles aren\u2019t even supposed to know about wizards.<\/p>\n
There are a myriad of issues here\u2026 just kinda interesting to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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