JW Rowling has overstepped on many fronts by trying to be all things to everyone.
preaching or teaching to your audience and assuming much …
Seven clues that ‘Potter’s’ Dumbledore was gay – LA Times
Oct 23, 2007 – Speaking from his home in Boston, Slack said he hadn’t guessed that Dumbledore wasgay, but in hindsight, he was able to point to specific …
JK Rowling’s brilliant response to fan who asked ‘why is Dumbledore …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk › Culture › Harry Potter
Mar 25, 2015 – A fan tweeted the Harry Potter author to say that she ‘couldn’t see’ Dumbledore beinggay. … In 2007, Harry Potter author JK Rowling offered fans some additional insight into her character Albus Dumbledore, when she explained that the much-loved wizard and Hogwarts headmaster was …
JK Rowling’s biggest bombshells since Harry Potter, from Dumbledore …
http://www.mirror.co.uk › TV › TV News › Harry Potter
Nov 27, 2015 – “Dumbledore is gay,” she replied, adding he was smitten with Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle years before. “I would have told you …
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I meant to say yesterday when I read this, I thought you were very smart here, because we’re all guilty of co-opting. I do it quite a lot. I have begun to really think about what you say here, and realize that it can be so wrong to do that. We may think we have the handle on … whatever but until you really do you don’t. I get what you mean here, I wish this one would go national because people need to realize this and not enough is said about this but it’s a trend that has become wild since the internet.
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the trick is to triangulate.. breaking the privilege cognitive dissonance is tricky.. people need to use their position to give others voice, not speak for them.
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breaking privilege in how we communicate is near impossible but as you say, if you bring others in rather than think your voice alone can own the exclusive rights on something you’re co-opting. Yeah I agree
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who speaks for whom… to, for, instead of and at… most people just do the at
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Despite saying this I may still co-opt vampires. I am not a vampire but I really feel I can successfully co-opt them without causing offense 😉
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at some point, humanity is a monoculture and that’s what the multi-cultural mosaic is about.. slurry of assimilation
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Indeed you are right as usual my clever friend
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