One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[delwynmarch]

susanmcgee wrote:
> Oh, okay, so you're fine with the people who 
> say that Africans have smaller brains and are 
> less intelligent than Europeans/white people...
> after all, it's their opinion, right? They're 
> not bigots?

Del replies:
I'm not fine with their opinions (especially since 
I happen to also have black-and-white cousins, one 
of my uncles is from Guadalupe - and yes, we are 
a very coloured family, makes for wonderful family 
pictures), but I'm fine with those people existing 
and having their own opinions. As for designating 
them as bigots: I honestly don't know about that, 
it's something I just don't lose any time thinking 
about. People are people, they have their own 
opinions, sometimes I agree with them, sometimes 
I strongly disagree with them, and that's it. I 
can control which opinions are allowed to be voiced 
in my home, I can take action when I see someone 
being persecuted, I can raise my own voice to 
express another opinion, all those things are 
useful. But cataloging someone as a "bigot"? 
What's the point, the use of that? What does 
it accomplish, except ensure that they won't be 
willing to listen to me and talk to me??

> And by the way, the constant statements that 
> homosexuality is immoral or abnormal ARE 
> attacks on me and every lesbian and gay man.

And the constant statements that anyone who has 
a problem with homosexuality is an untolerant 
bigot is an attack on all non-bigoted people who 
happen to have a problem with homosexuality. 

Del