[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Random832]

susanmcgee48176 wrote:
> Well, here's the deal...it's prejudice when people are thrown out of 
> their families, disowned, fired from jobs, called names, harassed, 
> beaten, lose their housing, or are murdered because of their sexual 
> orientation.

And which of the above have been done by the people complaining about 
the books? There is no moral equivalence between doing any of those 
things, and anything that has been said here.

> My personal sound moral judgment is that it's wrong to be a bigot, and 
> it's illustrative of people's prejudice and bigotry that their image of 
> DD has "diminished".

It's illustrative of their tendency and history of throwing people out 
of their families, firing people, harassing, beating, turning people out 
on the street, and murdering people? That is, after all, how you've 
defined prejudice and bigotry in the preceding paragraph. Careful what 
you're accusing fellow list members of.