It's like people praising Magdalen Berns as some great cutting satirical wit, the second coming of Dorothy Parker, for gems like "Oh, fuck off, you wanker" and "You ARE blackface actors"
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Fine let's get into it If you knew nothing about what Powell was talking about, you might admire how his sentence conveys rhetorical strength, the sound of someone moved to act out of duty Rowling's sentence, if you delete the operative words, is still a mealy-mouthed dodgepic.twitter.com/RX8YDRC1la
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It's not a good sentence or a powerful sentence, it's the sentence of a weaselly coward You could plug it into any number of weaselly cowards' cowardly speeches "I want Iraqis to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make Americans less safe" It's bullshit
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Who the fuck thinks this is inspiring or stirring The only way you could find her shit convincing is if you already just like her as a person and instantly feel sympathy for how she's been "relentlessly attacked" Cis Women's Tears
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Ftr it’s just an editor’s roundup of ‘best writing of the year’ that he calls an award for some reason. Still shitty though!
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I apply the Hitler rule to situations like this, or Bull Connor, if one is squeamish about Poe’s Law. If Bull Connor wrote a really good essay about segregation, would we be expected to be nice to him and wring our hand about his bravery in the face of online abuse?
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Exactly! I gave up reading it halfway through, not because of the rampant bigotry, but because it was terribly written rampant bigotry. She should have at least had the decency to not insult our intelligence and make her screed coherent.
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HP was warmed over Roald Dahl. Never liked the writing though the stories did make for fantastic movie adaptations.
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