One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[dumbledore11214]

> 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.
>

Random: 
> 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.
<SNIP>


Alla:

I am not Susan of course, but I was under impression that she was 
defining real life prejudice and accordingly this is obviously has 
nothing to do with people complaining about the books.

She was replying to this paragraph of Del's, no?


> Del muses:
> But who gets to decide that it's prejudice/bigotry?
> One person's bigotry is another person's defending of
> the truth. One person's prejudice is another person's
> sound moral judgement.
>

Alla:

I thought that Susan was saying that indeed there is a **prejudice** 
period, not prejudice from one person POV and when people do what 
she 
described it is bigotry and prejudice, end of story.

You know what I mean? Sometimes in RL it is Okay I think to call 
horrible thing a horrible thing. Because no matter how you look at 
it, 
for example throw a teenager out of the house because this teenager 
told his parents that he is gay, is just wrong. I am using this 
example, because as I mentioned upthread this is basically the only 
RL 
example I know of and that girl is dead now. I sure read a plenty 
others, but this is the only one I heard from the reliable witness ( 
person who used to teach this girl).

And if her parents say would say they did it because their religion 
says their daughter was not worthy of living with them no more, 
well, 
I do not care, really. I do not care how right in their minds they 
think they are. I still say it is wrong, just wrong, that is all.

No, I do not know this girl's parents at all, I am just giving you 
an 
example.

But of course this has nothing to do with people complaining  about 
DD 
being gay. I thought discussion switched, sort of to RL issues.

JMO,

Alla