MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom

Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by snotrockets on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:23PM (#34134218)

Yes, associating with an outspoken bigot like JK Rowling has a price.

But this isn't about the books, but the author (many LBGTQA+ people read the books as coming out story, and still hold them dear for that, regardless of the author's vile opinions of those very same readers).

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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by throwaway0x7E6 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:30PM (#34134264)

surely at this point you must realize it was just a story about wizards and witches, lol

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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by snotrockets on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:29AM (#34135260)

I wasn't too fond of the books when they were first published (showing my age here), and I don't feel a need to reread them. But here's the fun thing about stories: you can find whatever you'd like in them. As a reader, you are allowed to put part of yourself into the story; it is no longer just the author.

If you want Harry Potter to be a story about queerness, it is yours to make it so. If you want it to be a story about the problems of British education, it is just as much.

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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by devmunchies on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:02PM (#34134447)

> LBGTQA+

I believe it’s just the “T” in this case, snotrockets.

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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by snotrockets on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:35AM (#34135300)

An injury to one is an injury to all – if you single out the T, you're no A.

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