Canceling the heretic
Jun 24, 2020
This is what passes for education in the UK:
We recently received an email from a parent who was both concerned and very angry at the PSHE work sent out by her child’s secondary school. [...]
Young readers are given to understand from the text that J.K. Rowling is ‘deeply unpleasant’, ‘harming minorities’, a ‘bad person’ and has ‘done something terrible’. To complete the picture, the article goes on to compare Rowling to the anti-Semitic composer Richard Wagner, and (with incredible insensitivity) the painter Pablo Picasso, who it says has been ‘accused of a celebration of sexual violence’.
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