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    Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 10 Oct 2019

    I just remembered the time Anthony Horowitz gave a talk at my school when I was 10 and I was so excited as I loved his books I plucked up the courage to ask if he wanted to write books that weren't for kids, and he looked me right in the eye and said "what a stupid question"

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      2. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 10 Oct 2019

        "You wouldn't ask a history teacher to teach maths, would you? You wouldn't ask an English teacher to teach French, would you? Dumb question" No joke: his next book after that had a character who called everyone who went to my school "gay" and we had to have an assembly about it

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      3. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 10 Oct 2019

        I found the bit in his next book! It's TERRIBLE! As I recall this came out a few months after he came and did a talk to us and it was truly hard not to take it personallypic.twitter.com/AENXwamhB6

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      4. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 10 Oct 2019

        Oh boy please don't Twittersnitch me by tagging Anthony Horowitz into this thread guys

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      5. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 11 Oct 2019

        [extremely soundcloud voice] Wow this blew up Seriously though, this has become much bigger than I meant so I would like to clarify a few things: 1. I shared this because I suddenly remembered it and it made me laugh out loud, not because I want to cancel Anthony Horowitz.

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      6. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 11 Oct 2019

        2. I, and I cannot stress this enough, was 10 years old at the time. This was 20 years ago. I remember being devastated at the time by it, and I do have a VERY strong memory of the teacher-author analogy, but over 20 years it may have snowballed into something bigger in my head.

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      7. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 11 Oct 2019

        3. I don't think it was my question alone that provoked the line about Highgate School in the book - it was probably the whole experience of doing a book reading there. 4. It may not have been an assembly, it may have been a form period specifically designed to talk about it.

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      8. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 11 Oct 2019

        5. 20 years later, I find my interaction funny - but I do think there's something very dangerous sad about a children's author using the word "gay" as an insult, even if it is "in character". I have no idea how badly that affected gay and closeted students at Highgate and beyond.

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      9. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 11 Oct 2019

        6. Please don't tweet angry things about/to Anthony Horowitz on my behalf - I accept that he may have been in a bad mood or just not realised how harsh it sounded to my 10 year old ears. I went back to my school recently to give advice on writing and I'm sure stuff I thought...

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      10. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 11 Oct 2019

        ...was just me being flippant (about the constant rejection you get as a writer) may have come across as dismissive and heartbreaking (I really, really hope not, but if a Highgate School kid does a tweet-thread about me in 20 years time, that'll be why).

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      11. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 11 Oct 2019

        7. BUT I do think authors - and in particular, kids' authors - have a responsibility to think about what kind of message they're sending out, and casual homophobia in a kid's book (again, even it's in character) can't just be a throwaway line, because it does so much damage.

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      12. Jack Bernhardt‏ @jackbern23 11 Oct 2019

        Anyway, thanks for reading! I'm going flee!pic.twitter.com/nBg9sncB3Z

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