The blonde ones. The kids who won’t fight in the Battle of Hogwarts, because they’re too busy counting all of their money. The kids who, according to J.K. Rowling herself in a recent tweet, are racists. All in all, it’s just not a good look.
However, doesn’t there have to be more to Slytherin than what initially meets the eye? Isn’t it borderline impossible, from an optimist’s perspective, for one-quarter of a school’s population to be “evil?” And given the pervasiveness of racism — both overt and casual — in our own country, isn’t it a bit ridiculous to assume that only the Malfoy, uber-Republican types of the world can be racists?