Because I'm petty, I'm going to gather you all around and tell you about that time JK Rowling was extremely wrong about something and, by being wrong about it, poisoned Google search results for it for years afterwards and generally made the world ignorant about it
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She said that bullshit about borrowing from "the West African dialect of Sidiki a word that means 'friendly to thieves'" in a court case, in the specific context of proving how much research she'd done in order to shore up her IP rights to the Harry Potter universe
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It was a shitty thing to do It was a *minor* shitty thing to do, but it makes her look bad, and it very much ties in to her cavalier treatment of facts throughout the history of the Harry Potter franchise and in her attempts at being a Twitter public intellectual
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