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Tim Blair has written an utterly hilarious piece about a loopy article in the Sydney Morning Herald that contends that the appeal of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings is fundamentally racist. Chris Henning writes

Harry and the hobbits, with their takeaway racism, offer the same comfort for the whole world: join our tribe, be special with us, despise our subhumans.

To which Tim Blair replies

Which is almost exactly what my eight-year-old niece told me after she’d read her first Potter book. "I feel better now about the destruction of my community, Uncle Timmy," she said. "Now can we please go out and kill some Jews? Please, Uncle Timmy! You promised!"

Outstanding. Read the whole of Blair's article, it had me howling with mirth.