In the Harry Potter books/films/ iconography, the Wizarding community avoided naming the evil Voldemort out of fear, as if the very name would bring evil upon them. Only Harry Potter, unsaddled by age and prior knowledge and with an over-confident courage, systematically names the fear from which everyone else resiles.
This world leading mother, brilliant, inspirational woman has taken the world by storm and there’s nothing to do but eat those words about lacking substance, about being out of her depth, about Winston running the show.
Some of the weapons that will still be allowed I have to say are a real concern and I will be making a representation to the select committee to toughen the laws up even further.
The proposition being advanced by Davidson, Ghahraman, and many others on the left, is that terrorist acts are the by-products of societies steeped in racism and xenophobia: that they constitute the merely the awful apex of a much larger pyramid of prejudice. By discouraging the expression of the milder prejudices embedded at the base of this grim pyramid, they argue, their transmission upwards to damaged individuals like the Christchurch shooter can be interrupted, and lives saved.
Can’t make a bigot without cracking a few eggs
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Ban and buy back all semi-automaic weapons now.
When everything is wrong no words seem right.
Silence is the only appropriate place for dignity’s sake
And it’s best to let things beSympathy is not opinion
While angry men and women fight over what to do
And everyone is different
Some must have been cold for a long time
To feel nothing
When does censorship become a tool of the guardians who failed to preserve the physical safety of the 50 victims and other wounded?
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