Plenty of room for 'refugees' with JK Rowling

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harr ... bours.html

Cranky neighbors.

The Hogwart houses are kinda tacky/cheap looking. Looks more like a playground.

What has this to do with Refugees?

She is campaigning for the UK to take in more 'refugees'.

Want to really trim the hedges? INCENDIO!! ! Beats having to spend all those days!! !

Speaking of Refugees, the only people that should be housing them are the people in mansions advocating for them to come trash our streets.

Agreed guys!

Is she campaigning to have a system that allows her to sponsor refugees? Or does she want them paid for out of general taxation?

I don't understand why she is allowed to block the roads to deal with *her* problem garden. It would be much easier for everyone if she was allowed to simply build a wall - though that would reflect badly on her, since it would make her another open borders advocate who likes living behind a big wall.

Accio refugees!

So, Rowling's apparently a vocal supporter of refugees, in this and countless, other articles.
http://www.upworthy.com/in-1-tweet-jk-r ... n-refugees

I would like to point out a situation, in which affluent people favor boundaries, for themselves, such as this hedgerow. Discussions on narcissism have called it "otherness." It's an exclusive privilege, because who is being inconvenienced. They're all economy-class vehicles and rowhouses.

We might take time to consider this, thoughtfully, since we discuss social interaction and coping mechanisms.

I think an extreme example is the Vatican's thick walls, originally intended to protect against Islamists, although the papacy has come out, against border walls, for you "muggles."

Mundane people, peasants, and vagrants used to be considered subhuman, somewhat akin to a different specie of hominid.

The same psychology is apparent, among gated communities, whose residents tend to be liberal, pathological altruists. Plebeians, somewhat along the lines of a lower order of life, have to live with the demoralizing consequences of liberal indoctrination and be grateful for what table scraps the bourgeois provide.

To borrow an example, from English literature:
http://neovictorianist.blogspot.com/201 ... hropy.html
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Telescopic_philanthropy

Please notice that the implication, in the word telescope, is that social problems are being kept at a comfortable distance.

This is also comparable to the Hegelian dialectic, in that you commoners are stuck with the conflict, while authoritarians maintain moral authority. Rowling can probably offer many possible ways of coping with her hedge, and so many thirdworlders, none of which will require any executive function, on your part.

I shall start a campaign, called "Walls 4 Everyone". It will ask affluent open borders advocates to subsidise the construction of walls around the properties of those who are less fortunate than themselves.

If you're among the less-fortunate, and you should see a wall around you, it's being used to keep you in. Imagine castle ramparts, and you're not the king.

I bring this up, because I find that the delegation of useful resources is not a question shortages, so much as executive function.

I am a Cornucopian, were it not for demographic displacement and capricious tyrannies, in which cases, there can never be enough.

She's campaigning for us to let lots more refugees in, but of course it won't affect her. Let them live in her garden or she can move to a part of London etc that has taken in lots of people over the last few years and see how quickly she changes her mind.

I don't think they want their own things --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vzMNG2fZc

They are not interested in sharing.

Sorry, if I'm the one who has to tell you that. It's not my beef.

I have greatly enjoyed the Potter books and movies, but increasingly I lose patience with anything I glean about Rowling herself. She has now become one of those spoiled, entitled rich folks she never started out being. Way to irritate one's own community.

It really would have been more practical for her to simply buy a more remote property. This one appears to be quite in the middle of a very built up residential neighborhood and her plans and bushes and structures seem more suitable for a place stuck in the middle of nowhere rather than the suburbs. I'm sure there are more isolated properties in Scotland; seriously she should have sought out those.

I find her to be spoiled and entitled these days.