the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months ago

Why George Orwell would have loved JK Rowling

www.telegraph.co.uk

Why George Orwell would have loved JK Rowling

www.telegraph.co.uk

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the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months ago

The two authors have one crucial thing in common: they dare to resist the ‘prevailing orthodoxy’ of ‘right-thinking people’

This is the epitome of “right-thinking” and “respectability.”

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Sure, they’re both awful people who like to talk shit about things they have no knowledge of
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