Posted on 12/19/2019 2:42:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I'm old enough to remember when the Harry Potter books first started coming out, and all the adults said things like, "Well, those books are silly, but at least kids are reading something." Then Rowling became richer than the queen of England, and all those kids who read her books grew up to get media jobs where they compared every single current event to something from one of her books. "Read another book!" became a rallying cry among the elderly. But those kids haven't read another book, and they won't read another book. They revere Rowling like a saint.
Having a core audience of millennials has its drawbacks. They don't react too well when you start talking about facts and biology and other tools of the cisnormative patriarchy.
Sophie Gallagher, The Independent:
JK Rowling has defended a woman who lost her employment tribunal after her opinions on sex were ruled “absolutist”.
The Harry Potter author tweeted in support of Maya Forstater, 45, who was fired from her job at poverty think-tank, Centre for Global Development, over a series of tweets questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.
Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 19, 2019
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Childhood ideology and heroes still blinker her.
With the activists these days, it's 100% or you're the enemy.
Go ahead, eat your own. You'll create more centrists that way. Ones that won't glom on to the stupider things you say just so they can be with you for other things.
(Note: They'll all be her best friend again if she makes another stage show sequel.)
Next? Harriette Potter?
Guess not.
I read this as ‘she might as well be a Nazi cow’.
Well, that too.
In the UK, people publicly reading the King James Bible are arrested for “offending” moslems.
London’s Muslim mayor defends arrest of Christian preacher ...
https://www.jihadwatch.org › 2019/03 › londons-muslim-mayor-defends-a...
Mar 22, 2019 - Britain is, of course, finished. .... The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has addressed the recent arrest ...
Police arrested Mr Ilesanmi after a member of the public complained that he ... openly read from any part of the Bible without fear of arrest,
Mr Khan .... How can such person become the mayor of London?
In the UK, people publicly reading the King James Bible are arrested for “offending” moslems.
Could I have a link to a report about this - I’d love to show it to some friends.
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