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Re: Bon Appetit
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Again you are misrepresenting me. I did not and do not support Rowling suing people to squelch their speech. I never said I did and never said I would. You're inserting that into my argument to create equivalence between my argument in favor of free expression (w/o calls for boycotts or demands that views which "trigger" hypersensitive loons be scrubbed) and Adder's ridiculous belief he has to shield his kid from Rowling's work because of some Twitter feud in which she engaged.
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I didn't say you support Rowling. But while she uses libel law to silence critics, you side with her and other Harper's letter types in insisting that the real threat to free speech is "hypersensitive loons." The equivalence between your position and Adder's is that both are dumb takes.
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