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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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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Again, I have to point out how much of a slap in the face it is when something like Harry Potter takes over the Google search results for a real thing from your own culture
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That doesn't sound like a lie to me. I mean, her case would have been stronger if she'd got the name right, and known it was Malagasy rather than West African. It sounds more like sloppiness.
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"Reckless disregard for the truth", as they say, comes close enough to lying to be counted as such Like she really made it sound like she did *serious research* about the "West African dialect of Sidiki", not that this was a half-remembered random word she jotted down
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