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0 pointsdangus5y ago0 comments

Of course there wasn’t evidence of bigotry when she mostly lived a private life, before she decided to get hooked into the Twitterverse. An analogy: you don’t have evidence of a crime before it happens.

The article is arguing that we should be doing more to help her understand.

This has been done. All kinds of people have made thoughtful criticisms of her essay (much more level-handed than mine).

Her response has been to double down: https://mobile.twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/127975541862187...

One must be willing to learn in order to be taught. She is not a person that can be reasoned with. She believes this thing she believes and feels the need to broadcast it widely, and she has made up her mind.

This is the hill she wants to die on. If she’s factually on to something, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t make this less of a stupid thing for her to do.

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joopxiv5y ago

> All kinds of people have made thoughtful criticisms of her essay

And I applaud that. I hope they don't drown in the noise that the less thoughtful people are making.

> Her response has been to double down

The tweet you linked is a reply to a tweet that's a great example of what's wrong with the response overall.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1279761588438867975

While I don't want to comment on the validity of the comparison, the fact that antidepressants are overprescribed is well documented. She calls doctors unnecessarily prescribing antidepressants lazy.

Saying it calls people who take mental health medication lazy is a gross misrepresentation. Whether it was a deliberate or out of laziness, it poisons the conversation.

> One must be willing to learn in order to be taught. She is not a person that can be reasoned with.

I think that conclusion was drawn way too fast.

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