Conservatives Attack Gay Dumbledore; Claim Vindication For Jerry Falwell’s Homophobia

falwelldumbledore.gifOn Friday, British author J.K. Rowling revealed for the first time that Albus Dumbledore, one of the central heroes in the record-breaking Harry Potter series, is in fact a gay man. Asked if Dumbledore, “who believed in the prevailing power of love,” had ever fallen “in love himself,” Rowling said that he once had with another male wizard.

While Rowling considers her novels to be a “prolonged argument for tolerance” and most fans were “thrilled with the announcement,” some conservative blogs are criticizing the revelation:

    - Psycheout at Blogs 4 Brownback called it “revolting,” saying “Dumbledore is a gay homosexual who doesn’t deserve to live on G-d’s green earth.”

    - At Redstate, dvdmsr says the revelation means that “Dumbledore was more flawed than I thought.”

    - Don Surber wondered why the audience would “applaud” the revelation and suggested that Rowling was “knock[ing] the Christians” to “sell books.”

One prominent conservative blog, Newsbusters, is claiming that the revelation somehow vindicates the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, who was showered with ridicule in 1999 after declaring that one of the Teletubbies, Tinky Winky, was gay. Mark Finkelstein, a Republican official in upstate New York, writes that “somewhere, Jerry Falwell is smiling” about the news:

    What’s that? It now turns out that Dumbledore is gay? That guy who was the headmaster at Harry Potter’s Hogwarts? Author J.K. Rowling said so herself? […]

    And while Falwell was thoroughly lambasted in the MSM for his suggestion, the Times tells us that Rowlings’s revelation inspired “applause.”

    Somewhere, Jerry Falwell is smiling.

First, Harry Potter and the Teletubbies are completely unrelated. The sexual orientation of a character in one fictional world cannot vindicate claims about the sexual orientation of a separate character in a separate fictional world.

Even if Finkelstein’s larger point is that Falwell was right that some children’s entertainment include “undisclosed gay characters,” Falwell was wrong in his claim that the presence of a gay character is “damaging to the moral lives of children.” As Jacob Weisberg wrote in 1999, “there’s no scientific or psychological basis” for that claim:

    There’s no scientific or psychological basis for believing that children are affected in their sexual development or eventual sexual orientation by exposure to homosexuality–on television or in real life. If the creators of cartoons are intentionally or unintentionally giving children the idea that gay people are part of the big, happy human family, that’s a good thing, not a bad one.

The audience applauded Rowling’s message because it was one of tolerance; Falwell was criticized because his one was of hatred, based on gay stereotypes. The need for tolerance is reinforced by the conservative blogosphere’s reaction to a fictional character being gay.



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Primerak prvog Harija Potera prodat za skoro 20.000 funti
Autor: Beta | 25.10.2007 - 18:13

Primerak prvog izdanja knjige "Hari Poter i kamen mudrosti" Džoane Rouling prodat je danas za 19.700 funti (40.000 dolara) na aukciji u Londonu, javile su svetske agencije.

Prodati primerak prvog od sedam romana popularnog serijala jedna je od samo 500 knjiga iz prvog tiraža, koji su većinom kupile biblioteke, navodi u saopštenju aukcijska kuća "Kristi".
Krispin Džekson iz "Kristija" rekao je da je taj primerak najbolje očuvan od svih knjiga iz tog tiraža koje je video. Knjiga, objavljena 1997, pre aukcije procenjena je na sumu od 8.000 do 12.000 funti.
Romani o Hariju Poteru u svetu su prodati u preko 335 miliona primeraka, na 64 jezika. Sedma i poslednja knjiga iz serijala - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" - objavljena je u julu.
Sličan uspeh postigle su filmske adaptacije knjiga Džoane Rouling. Poslednji snimljen film, koji se očekuje sledeće godine, zasnovan je na šestom romanu, "Hari Poter i polukrvni princ".

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Liberasion: Hari Poter je levičar
Autor: Beta-Rojters | 27.10.2007 - 12:56

Hari Poter je levičarski heroj intelektualne aristokratije u borbi protiv materijalistički nastrojene srednje klase, tvrdi francuski "Liberasion".

Povodom objavljivanja poslednjeg romana o dečaku-čarobnjaku Džoane Rouling, vodeći francuski levičarski dnevnik posvetio je naslovnu i još dve stranice odgovoru na pitanje "Zašto je Hari Poter na levoj strani?".
"Čitajući ih, čovek vidi da Džoana Rouling, kao mnogi obrazovani Englezi, smatra da se dogodila prava, katastrofična tačerovska revolucija, i da za kulturu jedini način da opstane kao okultna nauka", napisao je u analizi romana filozof Žan-Klod Milner.
Milner je u Normalcima - onima koji ne vide magiju - prepoznao neobrazovanu buržoaziju koja je materijalno profitirala od tačerovskih godina, a kasnije i pod vlašću Tonija Blera.

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