• ValiumAnarchist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    How can everything in one tweet be so wrong.

    Apart from the obvious, she treats the Weasley’s like being poor is a fun sentimental thing. She does that insufferable lib class tourist thing of acting like being poor is actually more “real” than having wealth and ignores the hardships alongside it, apart from “Ron has some stuff from his brothers”

    “ There's no glory in greed and want/but there's none in poverty either.”

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      How can everything in one tweet be so wrong.

      It is not just about being wrong, but how they always write with so much confidence giving the impression they are explaining something to you like it is something that is so obvious but we are not smart enough to understand...

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      She does that insufferable lib class tourist thing of acting like being poor is actually more “real” than having wealth and ignores the hardships alongside it

      It’s weird that she does that since it’s my understanding that she was very poor for some periods of her life. I know I’ve heard it said she and her two kids lived out of a car for a time before writing HP. Maybe that was very brief/temporary? Or a lie? Or maybe she was distancing herself from her own experience of poverty? I don’t know, I could look it up but it’s not worth it.

      • WALLTHERICH [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        iirc she/the media pushed that narrative but she comes from wealth and was never actually struggling

        could be wrong but that's what i remember reading somewhere

      • ValiumAnarchist [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        She went to one of the most expensive and prestigious private girls schools in the UK. She wrote the majority of HP1 at her brother in laws coffee shop and he owned like 8 of them. Wealthy family, comes from wealth, exaggerated her “struggle” massively. IIRC her ex said the “living out of her car” thing was literally that she spent a single night in a car with her kids after the relationship fell apart before she moved in with family.

        • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          IIRC her ex said the “living out of her car” thing was literally that she spent a single night in a car with her kids after the relationship fell apart before she moved in with family.

          Ah, that makes more sense.