Fuck Harry Potter. All my homies love Little Witch Academia, The Owl House and Ikenfell.
Crucially, the invitation to JKR's play came in 2018, when Epstein was already in jail. You have to be a special kind of dumb to still invite him to a public event at that point. Compared to that, Bill Clinton's contacts in 2002-2003 have pretty decent plausible deniability - it's at least possible that he didn't know that Epstein was a pedo rapist + pedo pimp, since that was before any accusations against him became public.
Clinton knew. He had briefs from US intelligence, even after out of office, a practice the current president stopped as I understand, The best news service in the world.
Would they have reported on alleged rapes, would they even have been informed of Epstein's human trafficking activities in 2002? Maybe's that's why he allegedly broke off contact in 2003. Don't know either way, but there's definitely more "maybe"s here than for inviting him in 2018.
I listened to the Lolita podcast and it's a great one hosted by someone who was a fan of the work and it made an impact on her.
It seems so many interpret the story of Lolita to be a tragic love story like Kubrick and it seems Rowling. It seems as though the more sensible interpretation would be a story about abuse and power where you're made to empathize with the unreliable narrator, Humbert. I always get an ick when I hear people say it's a love story.
where you're made to empathize with the unreliable narrator, Humbert.
And in the afterword Nabokov basically says that if you actually empathize with Humbert you're an idiot 😆
Media literacy is not particularly high as of late
Sadly not a new phenomena. Does seem to be getting worse though.....
I hate to be that person, is there a source for each bit of info? This is def something I’d like to come back to in future references.
I looked at a couple, short on time today.
Personally inviting Ep to the show is refuted by her, and several news reports say it's a fake. But in the Ep papers, there is correspondence of her team and his team working out tickets for someone. An invite did happen to someone on his team. I suspect the invite was a wide dump to the aristocrats and someone did take those tickets.
For aid in the legal expenses of white supremacists, she donated to a lot of filthy causes. No question. This happened. But the wording insinuates more than the blind payments.
Best I can tell, the things are true or kind of true, but didn't go down exactly the way they're worded here. No question, she is awful, keeps ties to awful people, and funds awful causes, but the wording here is chosen carefully to enrage the readers and create engagement.
The simple truth behind all of this was and is awful, but it's become boring. You can only write journalistic things about her dumpster fire so many times, so they're trying to come up with new angles to keep it interesting. I'm not sure that I disagree with it, honestly. Even if it's a little underhanded, keeping her in the awful spotlight is probalby worth it.
Yeah I hate Rowlings antics as much as the next lemming, but I'll never understand why posts like these have no references. I don't even take them seriously, the burden of proof is on the poster, not the reader.
Every claim should come with a direct link or reference.
I was too young and innocent to understand the evils of this world when I fell in love with the books. They were my escape in otherwise a shit childhood. I hate the author, but I cannot hate the stories that made my childhood better.
You're allowed to look back fondly while being aware of the problems. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Life is full of nuance.
Separate the art from the artist
If you can separate the artist's power and wealth from the art, this works, typically when they've been dead for a while. Otherwise you're just feeding them. Rowling herself has used the money to actively fight trans people's rights in court and used her influence to give her actions public backing.
That's not what I would call it. I think people say that to justify continuing to consume the art, which thereby supports the artist. I think support and consumption should be stopped entirely.
I know many don't agree but i even think we shouldn't pirate the art. Consuming it perpetuates relevancy, even if not giving support financially.
Similarly, I enjoyed the movies even though the books weren’t my personal style. A whole lot of people were a part of that who don’t share any of her views or knew the type of person she was at the time.
I mean I loved Orson Scott Card's book Ender's Game and the get turned out to be a right-wing loon. It doesn't change how I feel about the book.
JK Rowling's bookshelf
Is this all true? Jesus Christ, this Epstein corruption spread everywhere.
And just like with the Panama Papers, I'm afraid at some point we'll all collectively forget about it and no billionaire will be eaten.
until further notice assume every billionaire is implicated
There’s a lot to be against here, but to me, that last one is especially bad
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