Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: "Today in My Harry Potter Class..." Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 09:29:01 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:29:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4769cffffa517bc3c96c716870b8763b"; logging-data="265985"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wqx8Eva77HbqMnoDpI3uR" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xFAvMA8Sy50RKgYlBRJXG+EmUb0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2373 On 4/5/24 7:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > "Today in my Harry Potter class at Baylor University, we had a hard and > necessary conversation about JK Rowling and her hatred of trans- people. We > decided novelist Rowling, who wrote with compassion about diversity, equity, > and inclusion, is worth our attention. Twitter Rowling? Shame on her." > > https://x.com/Greg1Garrett/status/1775307079126806960 > > ------------------------ > > "Today in my Harry Potter class..." is a prime example of why the rest of us > shouldn't have to pay off anybody else's student loans. > > The rest of the tweet is an example of how education does not equal > intelligence and being "anti-intellectual" isn't necessarily a bad thing when > it's dipshits like this who are calling themselves intellectuals. Look, you could just take a few High School remedial reading courses, and you too could eventually qualify to take a literature class. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0