Poor Sirius, who could just leave his house to go live with a rich friend of his, equally loaded, without losing a single social or economic privilege. Poor Sirius, who then inherited an entire flat, meaning he could afford to not work a single day in his life and still had a fancy London property to call home. Poor Sirius, who used his social status and his family name to go around trying to murder working-class kids who had no surnames, no connections, and no one to defend them. Oh, poor little Siriuuuus, whose mummy said mean things to him four times a day during the two months he spent on vacation it’s not like Snape got beaten by his dad and bullied at school by Sirius and James, who, funny enough, didn’t suffer any violence there at all. Poor Sirius, whose mother was soooo mean, but he always had clean clothes, food on the table, and lived surrounded by luxury. Totally the same as Snape, who couldn’t even afford clothes and lived in a slum in a decaying industrial area.
Honestly, I don’t know if you people actually think that being massive classists you can still pretend to be woke, or if it’s just that you have zero class consciousness and therefore think these arguments make sense, but there’s just so much wrong in your pathetic little discourse that I feel morally obliged to break it down using political theory. This lesson’s on the house; the next ones you’ll pay for.
What you’ve said about Sirius vs. Snape is the perfect example of bourgeois ideology wrapped in fake empathy. You’re confusing individual suffering with structural violence which is literally the difference between a tragic event and a class condition.
Sirius is the rebellious aristocrat. He rejects his family’s values, sure, but never his privilege. He’s cushioned by wealth, property, and social capital. His rebellion costs him nothing material, he runs away from one mansion to another. His suffering, while real, is intra-class; it doesn’t challenge the structure that produced it.
Snape, on the other hand, is proletarian misery incarnate. He’s poor, alienated, and socially disposable. He doesn’t just suffer in poverty, he suffers because of poverty. His father’s violence isn’t just “bad parenting,” it’s the psychological fallout of economic domination, alienation, and class despair. To put it bluntly: Snape is what happens when capitalism eats its own children.
Equating both of them, or worse, implying Sirius is the one ignored “because he’s rich and handsome,” is the ideological equivalent of saying Jeff Bezos is oppressed because people make fun of his bald head. This is what Gramsci called cultural hegemony: the ruling class’s worldview internalized by everyone else as “common sense.” You’ve been so thoroughly trained by bourgeois ideology that you think all pain is equal, as if suffering existed outside the material conditions that produce it. It’s giving “false consciousness,” babe.
And the aesthetic bias? Oh, that’s straight out of Adorno and Benjamin’s nightmares. You empathize more with Sirius because he’s pretty, tragic, and upper-class, suffering that looks good under soft lighting. Meanwhile, Snape’s pain is ugly, violent, and working-class, so it makes people uncomfortable. You’re not being deep; you’re reproducing the aestheticization of privilege: turning upper-class angst into poetry while treating proletarian pain as pathology.
What’s happening here is depoliticization through liberal empathy. You’re not defending Sirius out of compassion, you’re defending the emotional comfort of identifying with someone who suffers beautifully. That’s not moral clarity, that’s ideology in drag.
So before you start handing out victimhood cards, maybe learn how class works. Suffering under capitalism isn’t distributed evenly. Pain doesn’t float in the void; it’s structured, produced, and reproduced through power. And if you can’t tell the difference between a man traumatized within privilege and a man brutalized by deprivation, you’re not being empathetic, you’re being reactionary, just right wing ideas.
So next time, before dropping another “deep” take that sounds like it came out of a sociology class taught by TikTok, do us all a favor and keep your mouth shut until you’ve developed at least a minimum level of class consciousness. Because right now, you’re not dismantling oppression, you’re just cosplaying as a leftist while parroting bourgeois morality with a Tumblr filter on top.
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