Please don’t support the terrible Rowling

@stux
I don't agree.

The Harry Potter books were definitively the best reading experience I've ever had in my life.

I've read all of the books to my kids as well, and I wouldn't miss a minute of that wonderful time.

There is some much magic and wisdom in those books, and the prophecies of the hard times we are in at the moment.

I am here to protect her and willing to cast every spell I know with the exception of one of the forbidden ones.

@anthrazit @stux I have some follow-up questions.
- do you think I deserve healthcare?
- do you support my right to call my wife a woman?
- do you think people should be allowed to choose what we do with our bodies?
- do you think racism or anti-Semitism are bad?
- do you think women are harmed by a system that enforces strict gender roles and places their value on how well they meet an arbitrary aesthetic standard?

If you answered "yes" to any of these, you might want to rethink your support.

@raphaelmorgan @stux

If I would solemnly swear to just have social contact with people I totally agree with I would be the loneliest person in the world.

@anthrazit
Popper's Paradox as social contract is very simple, and you've just excluded yourself from it.

@raphaelmorgan @stux

@dzwiedziu @raphaelmorgan @stux

Actually according to this definition this is something you do, not me.

It is not a blank check to silence opposition: The goal is to protect a tolerant society, not to censor all views deemed unpopular.

I have never excluded someone in this discussion by his/her opinion.

I just defend Rowling's right to have a different one. I don't agree on some of her views, but I defend her right to have a different view.

That is democracy, if you like it or not.

@anthrazit
Ah, first reply and I got DARVO crossed from my alt-right bingo, and several right-wing talking points.

What you call “unpopular” is in JKKKR's words: transphobia, queerphobia, holocaust denial, financing those views; from her works you can add pro-slavery (Dobby), antisemitic (goblin bankers), (a short list).

So you can defend her “views” and call it a “democracy” or even “marketplace of ideas”, but you're just pro-fash.

Image unrelated.

@raphaelmorgan @stux

@dzwiedziu @raphaelmorgan @stux

You have definitely not read Harry Potter.

@anthrazit
Well, it's for the better, if I'd become a pro-fash, like you.

Now bugger off.

@raphaelmorgan @stux