Posted on 01/05/2022 7:25:06 AM PST by lowbridge
A British performing arts school which had honored Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling removed her name because of what they called her “comments and viewpoints surrounding trans people.”
The Boswells School in Chelmsford, Essex, replaced Rowling’s name with Olympic track star Dame Kelly Holmes after “requests from students and staff.”
According to The Daily Mail, a newsletter stated:
The Boswells House System embeds a sense of community, friendship and healthy competition amongst both students and staff.
A strong house identity empowers our students to participate and thrive in all aspects of school life, both in and out of the classroom. Here at the Boswells we have 6 Houses which are represented by British citizens who have excelled in an area of our Boswells Learning Bridge which includes integrity, emotional intelligence, grit, resourcefulness, self-discipline and bravery.
However, following numerous requests by students and staff we are reviewing the name of our red house “Rowling” and in light of J.K Rowling’s comments and viewpoints surrounding trans people. Her views on this issue do not align with our school policy and school beliefs – a place where people are free to be.
Staff have been invited to put forward suggestions of names for the house. Once shortlisted a vote will go out to the whole school to select a new House name.
Prior to the school’s decision to revoke Rowling’s name, the school referred to her as “the much-loved series of seven Harry Potter novels,” also asserting that her name fit the “self-discipline” themed house because “Rowling states that success takes constant practice, self-discipline and requires us to get up when we fail and try again.”
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And didn’t she basically walk back everything she said. Lot of good that did, LOL!
What a load of BS
Then why did she walk back her previous comments?
Not exactly - she said she believed in 57 flavors of gender but doubled down that biological sex is immutable.
Should have just renamed it Slytherin...
The most humorous part of that GIF is that it is version 2.0.
I guess she tried the Drew Brees strategy.
Say one thing the Left disagrees with and...well you know the deal.
Still, this is the world she helped to make.
That’s why you NEVER walk back. The left does NOT forgive and forget.
As long as the fairy snowflakes get press, the will continue their foolishness.
Ignore them.
Please call me when it seems like Romans 1:18-32 is not happening throughout the society.
Sharks just smell the blood in the water.
> She shouldn’t be too worried. <
True that. Except perhaps for a bruised ego, Rowling will be just fine. But the way she was treated will silence many others who think as she does.
That’s the really scary thing here.
If people keep ignoring that pop up eventually they end up on the Blue Screen of No Damns to Give.
It’s best to strongly disagree with the Left and the laugh in their faces.
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