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A comment on JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard. Parent comment

Re:JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard by gruseom on Sunday June 08, 2008 @02:29AM (#211975)
An acute and trenchant point. Something about that bothered me too, but I wasn't sure what. He put his finger on it - or rather, his foot.
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Re:JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard by huhtenberg on Sunday June 08, 2008 @10:44PM (#212465)
I'm not sure he's right though.

Given Rowling's position I don't think she feels a need to prove anything to anyone. Especially about being "up-to-date" and "politically correct".

This remark sounded more like something she'd said just to see how public would react. Or perhaps to intentionally annoy certain people (religious zaelots and such). I just can't imagine JKR sitting at home, bitting her fingernails and thinking "Damn, I am not politically correct enough .. I should really do something about it".

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