Yes, this She went down the exact same radicalization path Helen Lewis did after getting called out by Black feminists and becoming hyperdefensive about ithttps://twitter.com/georgetakesajob/status/1270090407767146497?s=19 …
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So, when I read the first HP book in my children's lit classi in '03, I was literally the only person to say anything negative about it. I said it was derivative and dull and cliched.
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Some other ppl in class got VERY angry at me, and said it would be a "classic" that would be remembered for "generations" Me:pic.twitter.com/UmilCoNYJc
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the incurious part is key. a lot of figures from the 90s and 2000s who were considered liberal (and likely thought themselves liberal) and failed to understand the bar for "liberal" had been raised. JKR, whedon, ken penders to name a few.
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Heck, sounds like the arc of a lot of white people who were pro-civil-rights act in '68 but couldn't keep up.
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I'm not sure it's the case that she wasn't a TERF before... why did I continually feel like I was a Slytherin reading those books...
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Yes but, she definitely was a point on the graph for young progressive politics in the UK. Pullman was slightly too early/controversial to find the groove with millenials, JKR basically struck the vein and stayed there for years.
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Don't forget that the books ended right after social media began to properly take off, do many of the voices who would speak out against harmful tropes wouldn't have been able to do so in real time like they can now with 2020s edgy fare.
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There's a 50 percent chance middle class people vote Tory.
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