J.K. Rowling's recent gaffe

[piersbeckett]

One of her quotes is, 'It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities', another is, 'If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals'.

 

J.K. Rowling's gaffe sounds to me like a typical left-wing, socialist type presumption.

 

It reminds me of a time many years ago when I had a friend, unfortunately now deceased, who had CP (Cerebral Palsy) and sometimes we'd go out for a drink together in East London, England.  At the time I was acquainted with a group of left-wing, socialist types through a friend of my girlfriend's who were following a Japanese Buddhist guy's philosophy.  I thought him a sham.

 

One w/end night part of this group happened to be in the same, crowded pub as myself and my friend.  They reported back to my girlfriend's friend that they'd changed their opinion of me as they'd seen me 'looking after' this guy and thought that I was not the type of person who would do that.  I suppose that I was looking after him but only in the sense that one would need to support, to some extent, a person with his disabilities but actually he was a friend that I'd known for about twenty years who I got on very well with and we were just having a drink together.  He was a very brave, proud person and certainly didn't want to be 'looked after'!

 

It left me thinking, 'what the ...k do these lefties know?

 

 

[canuckamuck]

Did I miss it? Where is the gaffe? And why were you so judgmental over some people who misunderstood what they saw, but still cast you in a good light?

But you're right about socialist left wing types. Stalin's useful idiots are still marching on.

[lungbing]

I wish I was rich enough to be a socialist like Tony Bliar and JKR.

[Ulysses G.]

14 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Did I miss it? Where is the gaffe?

She saw a video that suggested that Trump had ignored a crippled boy, but someone cut out the part where the President was being very friendly towards him. Rowling ripped him to pieces for supposedly being cruel and it backfired on her when the whole video came out. 

[piersbeckett]

16 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Did I miss it? Where is the gaffe? And why were you so judgmental over some people who misunderstood what they saw, but still cast you in a good light?

But you're right about socialist left wing types. Stalin's useful idiots are still marching on.

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