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Eat the rich already (lemmy.world)
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[–] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Reminder that JK Rowling's descent into transphobia begun with her fearing she might have to pay taxes under a potential Corbyn presidency.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

    A: UK don't have presidents, we have a Prime Minister

    B: Evidence of her TERFism is found literally in her books from day zero, but it just was excusable before she unmasked as "maybe she's unknowingly parroting harmful stereotypes?" cause it turns out that some older creators had such an influence on media that lots of the stereotypes she used were just background radiation.

    (Goblin = Jew is as old as WWII, but probably older "They're just a Man in a Dress" and "Cis Woman that looks masc is funny" is at least as old as 1800s, etc etc)

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Wtf is it about rich people not wanting to share part of their imaginary wealth that they will never ever ever get to spend anyway.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 days ago

    It's the meritocratic delusion; a well documented psychological phenomenon wherein people with good outcomes will twist the facts of their life into such a story as to justify their success. The most famous experiment was giving a monopoly player a headstart and seeing how that changed their behavior - with the near universal result being that the player with the headstart believes that their win in the game was due to their skill, not due to the headstart they have.

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