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turbowoke wizard lady posted:'Israel's the root of all evil, according to Jimmy. Zionism. I got sick of the bloody sound of the word. You'd think they'd suffered enough!' I'm genuinely so mad that people can be this wilfully dense, Jesus. In other news Rowling is an awful writer. Also, someone explain to me how this passage isn't extremely anti-Semitic under IHRA rules? E: 250 is exactly one quarter of 1000
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ThomasPaine posted:In other news Rowling is an awful writer. This is the least newsy news of all time.
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TIL that JK Rowling is racist because a fictional bad movie person is not white.
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I actually think Rowling is probably relatively well intentioned and not ultimately a bad person, just an idiot who has huffed their own farts for far too long
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ThomasPaine posted:I actually think Rowling is probably relatively well intentioned and not ultimately a bad person, just an idiot who has huffed their own farts for far too long I'd be inclined to say that the odds of a liberal being well intentioned are slim to nil.
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happyhippy posted:TIL that JK Rowling is racist because a fictional bad movie person is not white. I think it’s more that the only Asian character in the film is basically the bad guy’s reserve battery - and despite being picked for mythological accuracy according to Rowling, she’s not even from the right ethnicity (she’s a South Korean and the name and associated legend is Hindi). It’s really lazy and dismissive, if unsurprising given that the only prominent Asian character in the original had a jumbled-up mishmash of a name that makes about as much sense as calling a European character Smith de Gaulle. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Sep 30, 2018 |
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JK Rowling's main problems are her planet sized sense of entitlement and baffling lack of self awareness. Personally I think there's only so far you can go with both before you should just be considered a wrong 'un.
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forkboy84 posted:I'd be inclined to say that the odds of a liberal being well intentioned are slim to nil. Like all liberals, she's so deep in the trashcan that it makes perfect sense she'd absolutely believe that what she is doing is the right thing. Doesn't mean she's not wrong.
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Darth Walrus posted:I think it’s more that the only Asian character in the film is basically the bad guy’s reserve battery - and despite being picked for mythological accuracy according to Rowling, she’s not even from the right ethnicity (she’s a South Korean and the name and associated legend is Hindi). It’s really lazy and dismissive, if unsurprising given that the only prominent Asian character in the original had a jumbled-up mishmash of a name that makes about as much sense as calling a European character Smith de Gaulle. Also yeah the 'Oriental' villain or villain's sidekick is a very old cinema racial trope and she must have at some level recognized that. I look forward to her next book having a magical sidekick who exists only to advance the hero's plot called Sambo Blackman, who is Irish.
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https://twitter.com/demarionunn/status/1046399843613192192 This is a good thread of Gile Coren being a total oval office, since his spat with Michael White being posted earlier.
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Just loving lmao at any Top 10 list that doesn't include Abu Hamza.
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forkboy84 posted:loving hell this is terrible On the other hand "professional seat warmer" is probably miles ahead of the average policies of PMs in living memory.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Darth Walrus posted:It’s really lazy and dismissive, if unsurprising given that the only prominent Asian character in the original had a jumbled-up mishmash of a name that makes about as much sense as calling a European character Smith de Gaulle. I don't even have a problem with lazy and dismissive as such. Harry Potter is obviously light entertainment, was obviously not expected to become as profitable as it did when Rowling wrote it, and she obviously did not intend to write a book examining race, power and gender relations (and probably had no loving clue about the topic to start with). It is, however, extremely  that Rowling is now turning around and pretending she's the wokest author alive, making her exhibit A for performative wokeness.
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Stuart Christie has to be somewhere in the top 3 of the list.
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suck my woke dick posted:I don't even have a problem with lazy and dismissive as such. Harry Potter is obviously light entertainment, was obviously not expected to become as profitable as it did when Rowling wrote it, and she obviously did not intend to write a book examining race, power and gender relations (and probably had no loving clue about the topic to start with). A work doesn’t even have to be ‘about’ this poo poo to be OK. Just do a bit of cursory research and avoid some pitfalls like you would with everything else. Make sure you’ve got the cultural origin of the myths you’re using down, try to ensure that the minority members of your cast don’t all fall into obvious, unfortunate stereotypes, and bam, you’re done.
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Guavanaut posted:I look forward to her next book having a magical sidekick who exists only to advance the hero's plot called Sambo Blackman, who is Irish. I rewatched Alan Partridge a couple of weeks ago and they have a great sequence where Alan meets some Irish men and can't stop from being completely ignorant and stereotypical about them, while the Irish are trying to say how they want to get away from that hackneyed image. Shortly after my wife watched the Harry Potter movies, where the sum total of Irish cultural heritage is, of course, a Riverdancing leprochaun. But whereas Alan Partridge is playing up the character's stupidity, the HP portrayal is entirely earnest.
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forkboy84 posted:I'd be inclined to say that the odds of a liberal being well intentioned are slim to nil. "I want everyone in society to be free and equal, and choose to believe that this is best achieved by maintaining the power structures that disproportionately benefit me, a middle class person" - every liberal ever
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Theresa May proposes post-Brexit Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland posted:Theresa May has unveiled plans for a post-Brexit Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ...Yep. A Brexit beano with bunting to placate the plebs.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just loving lmao at any Top 10 list that doesn't include Abu Hamza. Jugglers?
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/demarionunn/status/1046399843613192192 Having had to put up with the bastard for a whole day at work while they were filming a documentary, the man has no redeeming qualities. I did however enjoy watching Sue Perkins make him suffer during the food series they did together.
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You know if liberals are gonna throw a shitfit over trains being anti semitic I'm going to ask some serious questions about the phrase "he who can not be blamed" and how close that is to what Jack the Ripper wrote about the Jews.
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Three loving plays on "He who must not be named" in the space of one article. Kill all journalists
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suck my woke dick posted:I don't even have a problem with lazy and dismissive as such. Harry Potter is obviously light entertainment, was obviously not expected to become as profitable as it did when Rowling wrote it, and she obviously did not intend to write a book examining race, power and gender relations (and probably had no loving clue about the topic to start with). It's really this. The Nagini casting would still have attracted attention but beyond that, she'd not have got a thousandth of the stick she's got if she wasn't dancing around trying to make herself look like she's actually always been super progressive and inclusive. It doesn't really earn you the kudos if you've not included the stuff in the books and only announce someone's gay/black/a human years after the fact, beyond which it'd be quite a bit braver to have Dumbledore be gay in 1997 than today when gay rights have made pretty major strides.
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forkboy84 posted:Have a tweet which apparently isn't satire So that's a firm commitment to UBI then?
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Ms Adequate posted:beyond which it'd be quite a bit braver to have Dumbledore be gay in 1997 than today when gay rights have made pretty major strides. You'd think but apparently the recent dumbledore movies make a point of not addressing his sexuality at all
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forkboy84 posted:
Notice how the freedom is in consuming from exploitative apps. Nobody is driving the Ubers, nobody is renting out their spare room as a cut rate BNB and nobody is riding those bikes through rush hour traffic risking their lives to get you the Gut buster Pizza supreme. The only people who matter are the ones exploiting these nobodies. To Tories and Neoliberals exploiting people for minor convenience is worthy of being called a freedom fighter with absolutely zero interest in the people delivering the services.
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superLINUS posted:I’m at Wembley Arena to watch “punk rock pro-wrestling” and it’s all a bit weird. Very jealous, such an excellent card
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Gonzo McFee posted:To Tories and Neoliberals exploiting people for minor convenience is worthy of being called a freedom fighter with absolutely zero interest in the people delivering the services.
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https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1046435686360985602 I mean sure polls don't matter and these things swing on the daily and it's a fantasy fight between two people who won't face each other in a General Election ever again but still lol
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So Leanne Wood is out as PC leader, Adam Price won pretty decisively - only just reading about this now like 2 days later lol
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Within the space of three hours I've had someone take the mickey out of my Brexit stockpile (the existence of, not the contents) and someone else enthuse over how great it is that we have a Minister for Food Supplies because it's about time we took sustainable, self-sufficient food production seriously because it's healthier and better for the environment.
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kustomkarkommando posted:So Leanne Wood is out as PC leader, Adam Price won pretty decisively - only just reading about this now like 2 days later lol I quite liked Wood in the 2015 debates, what's Price like?
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Gum posted:Yeah seriously, that's probably the most out-of-touch thing I've read in this thread for some time I had to invoke MySpace to get to the right mixture of out-of-touch and out-of-date. Kegluneq posted:Edit: Bluetooth headphones are good and all, but if they're flat you basically have no options without a port other than waiting for them to charge. Given that waterproofed phones can have ports I've no idea what the logic was in removing them other than $$$. The DAC circuitry inside a phone is fairly susceptible to noise. This requires extra space beyond just the port. By dropping the entire assembly in a tightly packed phone you can fit a substantial amount of more battery inside when the other option is, shock and horror, making the phone a millimeter or two thicker.
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https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1046365901627564032 https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1046371387819139073 https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1046372726825521158 https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1046378102291668992
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dispatch_async posted:https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1046365901627564032 Stealing this for cspam
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Lady Demelza posted:Within the space of three hours I've had someone take the mickey out of my Brexit stockpile (the existence of, not the contents) and someone else enthuse over how great it is that we have a Minister for Food Supplies because it's about time we took sustainable, self-sufficient food production seriously because it's healthier and better for the environment. I've started one & I know quite a few colleagues started months ago. People can take the piss all they like but whats the worst that can happen? if nothing happens, you end up with some extra food. If it all goes to poo poo, your ahead of the game.
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