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Related: About this forumhillary potter !
thats what is on clintonkaine.com according to rachel maddow. Go there, its hillarious..
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hillary potter ! (Original Post)
drray23
Jul 2016
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BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)1. It's pretty savvy, based on this article that came out recently:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/07/harry-potter-readers-donald-trump/492245/
Looks like the kids are alright.
But a forthcoming study from the journal PS: Political Science and Politics makes a better case for how lessons learned from fiction can influence peoples political preferences. The researcher Diana Mutz, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, found that Harry Potter book readers are actually more inclined to dislike Trump. This was the case even after Mutz controlled for variables such as age, education, gender, party identification, evangelical identification, and ideology.
Given that these typical predictors didnt change the outcome, Mutz floats the likelihood that the lessons of the novelsembracing tolerance and inclusivity, rejecting physical and psychological violencemight explain the correlation between reading Harry Potter and disliking Trump. Basically: People familiar with the series narrative of good-vs-evil might recognize aspects of the books portrayals of evil in Trump. Mutz discusses how, in Rowlings novels, the protagonists are constantly defending the outsiders of the wizarding world. The ongoing battle between good, as personified by Harry and his friends, and evil, as personified by Lord Voldemort, is at root about the importance of group purity, she writes, drawing connections to Trumps statements about banning Muslims from entering the U.S., building a Mexican border wall, and other racially inflammatory comments.
Given that these typical predictors didnt change the outcome, Mutz floats the likelihood that the lessons of the novelsembracing tolerance and inclusivity, rejecting physical and psychological violencemight explain the correlation between reading Harry Potter and disliking Trump. Basically: People familiar with the series narrative of good-vs-evil might recognize aspects of the books portrayals of evil in Trump. Mutz discusses how, in Rowlings novels, the protagonists are constantly defending the outsiders of the wizarding world. The ongoing battle between good, as personified by Harry and his friends, and evil, as personified by Lord Voldemort, is at root about the importance of group purity, she writes, drawing connections to Trumps statements about banning Muslims from entering the U.S., building a Mexican border wall, and other racially inflammatory comments.
Looks like the kids are alright.
riversedge
(73,126 posts)2. Yes, saw that segment. And trumppense is a nothing
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)3. Oh oh oh! hahahahaaa!!!
Beautiful!!!!
riversedge
(73,126 posts)4. k and r.