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2 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
of all the things she has written, surprising that her transsexual comments cause her the most problems.
The "Harry Potter" series involves a conflict between two small groups of blood-defined supermen over whether or not they should exclude an even smaller group. The books also describe a financial system controlled by hook nosed goblins (literally).
Baffling that this series ever became as popular as it did, & I don't expect its popularity or distribution in USA to last. I'd guess that hostility from Christian right in early 2000s let it slip past liberal sensibilities.
Perhaps also because the protagonist isn't that political - he's the orphaned son of a wealthy family driven by a blood feud with his far more intelligent & industrious lower-class rival. Only the side characters have politics.

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Middle Stone Age was believed to have begun 280,000 BC and ended 50,000 BC in Africa, when it transitioned to Late Stone Age. However, some Middle Stone Age groups remained in West Africa as late as 9,000 BC - shortly before they were replaced by Late Stone Age pottery makers.
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Seems some non-Americans on here - Ingrid Bergman was Swedish & Hannah Arendt was German iirc
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