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#Canada: #Commonwealth: Hogwarts (and J.K.Rowling) finest hour. Conrad Black, The National Post

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#Canada: #Commonwealth: Hogwarts (and J.K.Rowling) finest hour. Conrad Black, The National Post
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/conrad-black-jk-rowling-deserves-our-thanks-for-cracking-the-woke-consensus/ar-AA176a9o

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J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, the creator of Hogwarts, magic. I remember it

0:44.6

vividly reading the books to my children as soon as they came out. And now, J.K. Rowling

0:50.8

is abused by people who oppose freedom of speech. Oddly, strangely, the whole matter

0:57.7

requires very careful explanation. And I welcome Conrad Black, a distinguished biographer,

1:03.5

writing for the National Post about this phenomenon of abusing J.K. Rowling because as a philanthropist,

1:11.6

as a woman who speaks out in her mind and political matters, such as Brexit and Scottish

1:16.0

independence, she has spoken out in support of women who are women. And it is very difficult.

1:24.8

The English language begins to break down. So I'm going to pause and turn it over to Conrad.

1:29.0

Conrad, a very good evening to you. I don't know if there is. I don't know that there

1:33.6

is an offense that J.K. Rowling has made, but she is standing up and pushing back against

1:38.8

people who abuse her. Good for her Conrad. Thank you.

1:41.5

I couldn't agree more, John. Her offense in the eyes of the trans radicals is her objection

1:50.8

to describing women as people who menstruate. I mean, she did not mean by that that it

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