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Telegraph article defends JKR

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BovaryX · 17/09/2020 07:28

There is an article in the Telegraph which describes the fanatical response to JKR's book and the cancel culture which enables it. A defence of artistic freedom when it is under sustained attack.

The death-wishers and cancellers can and should be ignored, but anyone interested in thinking and feeling has to show courage in the face of such narrow-minded literalism. Repressive regimes over the ages have tried to circumscribe what kind of art can be made, and in which style. The new moralism strives to similarly censor unpalatable ideas and images, on the basis that they might cause offence or harm: but life is not safe, and the imagination is filled with potentially upsetting ideas. To attack someone because they write about things you don’t like is childish: to demand an image of the world that conforms to how you would like it to be is positively demonic

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BovaryX · 17/09/2020 11:07

Ha heath she sounds lovely! Blimey, just had a Google about that book review and it seems like every newspaper replicated it. It is pretty unlikely any of the permanent outrage crew on Twitter frequent the Telegraph, as Redshoe suggests.

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RoyalCorgi · 17/09/2020 11:04

I don't imagine for one second that the likes of Jedward read the Telegraph

Of course they don't. I doubt they read anything at all. But this whole ridiculous business kicked off because someone on Twitter posted a link to the Telegraph article with its insinuation that the book was anti-trans, and then that lie got endlessly shared and repeated. These days death threats and jokes about book burnings happen not because of what you've said and done, but because of what someone else says you've said.

heathspeedwell · 17/09/2020 11:01

Lab/husky cross. No-one's told her she's not really lap dog material!

Redshoeblueshoe · 17/09/2020 10:59

I don't imagine for one second that the likes of Jedward read the Telegraph

BovaryX · 17/09/2020 10:57

Ha! No problem. What kind of dog?

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heathspeedwell · 17/09/2020 10:56

Sorry Bovary, cross post with a large dog on my lap!

BovaryX · 17/09/2020 10:56

Eresh

I didn't know its review had triggered the whole book burning/burn the witch insanity. I can't seem to access the review, but the Telegraph has been shedding readers because of its dire content so it wouldn't surprise me if the reviewer was Team Woke.

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heathspeedwell · 17/09/2020 10:56

I don't think the Telegraph do share tokens, but if anyone can post any more good quotes from the article I would be very grateful.

BovaryX · 17/09/2020 10:51

The Telegraph doesn't do share tokens. I am not sure if I can paste the entire article, but here's the eloquent conclusion:

Under the guise of “goodness”, many of today’s activists promote the idea that we are all radically different from one another. But we are not, and fiction is precisely the place where, at a slight remove, we can see this. To feel with and for characters in plays, novels, films is to feel ourselves too: alive and in the world, with others. Rowling is a public figure and a fiction-writer: to attack her personally for telling stories, or for expressing views you do not like, is to avoid listening to what she has to say. You can easily choose not to read her work, or her public declarations, but to wish her dead demonstrates only how small and resentful your own worldview must be

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Rosiejim · 17/09/2020 10:50

Pls :)

Rosiejim · 17/09/2020 10:47

Has anyone got a shade token?

SunsetBeetch · 17/09/2020 10:28

@highame

who's 'they', did the Telegraph do a review without reading?
Yup. Which started this whole mess

www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/troubled-blood-robert-galbraith-review-jk-rowling-fails-strike/amp/

RoyalCorgi · 17/09/2020 10:26

Nina Power, who wrote this, is very good. It's telling that it was published in the Telegraph - as a left-wing feminist, she is more used to being published in the Guardian. Such is the state of affairs that we now have to rely on the right-wing press to defend the freedom of leftish, feminist authors such as Rowling to publish without receiving death threats.

xxyzz · 17/09/2020 10:24

Unimpressed by the reverse ferret, given they have yet to apologise for the lies and shitstirring which led to the countless death threats they now claim to abhor.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/09/2020 10:15

The Telegraph did an appalling review suggesting that the moral of the book was "never trust a man in a dress". This was what was picked up by Pink News and started the whole #RIP stuff.

highame · 17/09/2020 08:10

who's 'they', did the Telegraph do a review without reading?

Dances · 17/09/2020 07:43

Yes I think the Telegraph realise they got that review of her book VERY wrong.

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