Posted on 03/02/2023 9:22:19 AM PST by NetAddicted
“Few men,” said Robert F. Kennedy in his 1966 anti-apartheid “Ripple of Hope” speech to students in South Africa, “are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society.
“Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence, yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.”
Of course, if Kennedy were to make that same speech today, he’d be promptly canceled by the woke brigade for only talking about “men” in relation to moral courage, and therefore, in their intransigently narrow, censorious eyes, identifying himself as a sexist pig.
But one of the best modern-day examples of what he was talking about is in fact a woman: Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
And the extraordinary thing about her moral courage is that it involves a simple statement of irrefutable biological fact, which is that women are adult human females.
Three years ago, Rowling publicly supported an English woman named Maya Forstater who lost her job at a UK think tank after posting tweets arguing that “sex is immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity.”
Forstater asserted that “a man’s internal feeling that he is a woman has no basis in material reality” and compared the issue to that of Rachel Dolezal, a white American woman who preposterously claimed to be black.
Three years ago, JK Rowling publicly supported an English woman named Maya Forstater after she lost her job. Getty Images Rowling agreed, tweeting: “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...
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Having a billion dollars helps too.
Which do, at least in this case, line up with reality.
I am not going to run out and buy her stuff or embrace her as a sister but credit where it is due.
Seriously. She has FU money for her FU money. Still, a remarkable example of courage and good old-fashioned common sense.
Financial independence is a wonderful thing.
It’s nice to see someone taking a stand. She kind of sold out with the whole gay dumbledorf thing in Harry Potter (or someone was gay). But I think she sees what selling out gets you...more demands.
Good for her correcting her mistake.
Scott Adams is the latest example.
“It is called having FU money”
Being a wealth sovereign has it’s advantages, however it also means it’s not moral courage when your standard of living is not on the line.
Rowling thought she had banked a bunch of good will with the woke mob when she declared dumbledorf was gay. She found out there is no bank. The moment she said something they did not like she was dead to them and needed to destroyed like the rest of us.
So yes it does take courage.
Not as much as it took for Khasha Jawan to continue to tell jokes about the Taliban after they had kidnapped him, assaulted him and were getting ready to kill him but still courage of a sort.
Kudos to Rowling for standing up to the woke crowd. But she’s so rich they really can’t do anything to her.
Sympathy for a wealth sovereign? How sweet.
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