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Chapter 7: What If You're Wrong?

Chapter 7: What If You're Wrong?

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 Host Megan Phelps-Roper asks J.K. Rowling to respond to pushback from some of her critics. The two also discuss the difficulty of discernment—why it can be so hard to know what’s right. Produced by Andy Mills, Matthew Boll, Megan Phelps-Roper, with special thanks to Candace Mittel Kahn and Emily Yoffe. This show is proudly sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. FIRE believes free speech makes free people. Learn more at thefire.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I really valued the balanced approach taken here. There was an overarching theme of our right to freedom of speech and equality and once again I came away from it feeling admiration and utter respect for Jo Rowling’s integrity and bravery. She really does inspire me to be more tolerant and stand up for those fundamental rights, just as her characters did in the Potter books.

A thought -provoking read.

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I stumbled on this entirely by chance this morning while looking for something else and thought I'd give it a go; I'm so glad I did.

It was refreshing to have opposing ideas presented compellingly
and without resorting to threats and violence. I highly respect the presenter's approach to interrogating ideas not people and her questions to help guide her truth seeking path were wise and valuable. The only lost star was because the opening (and closing I think) music was too loud compared with the podcast itself and hurt my ears enough that I needed to keep fiddling with the volume each episode. Not a massive deal, just a bit annoying.
Thanks to everyone involved and especially to Jo for allowing her vulnerability to be broadcast as well as for showing her authenticity and empathy with people on other sides of the conversation.

Fantastic exploration of opposing ideas

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Thank you JK Rowlingsfor bravely standing up for those who need someone to stand up them. Thank you also to Megan Phelps- Roper & those brave enough to speak up on this very controversial subject. I found that this podcast brought enlightment on ALL points of view. Hopefully after presenting extensive research & many interviews with those from all sides of the debate, it will help to bring an understanding, safety & healing to all those concerned.
Love & Miracles
Mary VH
Australia

Thank you J.K.Rowling🙏🩷

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Megan gets to the heart of JK’s concerns about Gender Ideology. Shero’s both of them to instil the inspiration to stand up and learn how to articulate your beliefs. Pluralism rocks!

Inspirational and informative

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This is not about JK Rowling - it’s exploitation and dialogue is about you, about me and about us. It’s holding a mirror up at us all - our society - and asking us to think, reflect before speaking or shouting our rage or our views. It’s not saying don’t have a view or be passionate about it. It’s simply asking us to reconsider our extremist approaches or expressions of our views, so that we can have freedom of thought without oppression.

Highly recommend. I’m just about to re-start listening to embed the gentle, considerate yet deep language that is used by the interviewer to explore and articulate themes, and I appreciated Rowling’s views and their expression and also the other guests. Thank you all.

Binge listening now for the second time

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This was more a story if freedom of speech without hatred being hurled back. Tolerance and understanding of other’s views. It was great and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

We should all listen to this and have a good think about the way in which we interact with each other.

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I learned so much that I was not expecting to learn about multiple topics. I love the open minded candor of all key people

Enlightening

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