[Magdalen] hissing at Haman

[Roger Stokes]

On 28/09/2015 18:09, Jay Weigel wrote:
> My whole point in posting about the book was that people were so up in arms
> about the theme that they were posting inflammatory "anti" posts about
> something they a) hadn't read, in most cases, and b) didn't recognize the
> source of. I very much doubt that most of them were even familiar with the book of Esther!

One big lesson these objectors ignore is that in drawing attention to 
that to which they object they actually increase awareness of it.  I 
would not have read the Harru Potter books had it not been for 
objections to the first of them.  The objectors looked at the words and 
the surface meaning rather than the underlying message the books 
conveyed.  Essentially there efforts are counterproductive to their 
intention.  The flip side of that is that those of us who are more 
open-minded may well get the message they wish to obscure.

Roger