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'Tear Down Those Mansion Walls': Twitter Users Offer Plane Tickets for Refugees to Go Live at J.K. Rowling's Mansion
ZitatJ.K. Rowling, author of the “Harry Potter” series, got into a Twitter feud with Daily Mail editor Piers Morgan.
Rowling once compared the stories about immigrants effected by the “travel ban” to ones she heard while working at Amnesty International about political prisoners under dictatorships.
So, after telling Morgan to “f*ck off” when he said President Donald Trump's executive order on immigrationisn't a “Muslim ban,” Rowling was all in.
She called the moment “as satisfying as I'd imagined,” and the two battled back-and-forth on Twitter. The fight quickly escalated and users from all walks of life got in on the action.
Rowling's self-righteous fervor led to a number of Twitter users offering to fund refugees to move to her estate so she could house and feed them. Those posts are at the link and are an amusing read. Here is a description of Rowling's digs which show she can easily help those people she so cares about.
ZitatRowling's Twitter has Scotland as her current location. In 2001, the author purchased a 162-acre property near Aberfeldy. “Killiechassie estate” has seven bedrooms in the main house, as well as an additional two-bedroom house, according to The Telegraph.
Rowling also owns a home in Edinburgh. The garden sprawls across the neighboring land that was previously home to a 17th-century house that the author had knocked down so she could expand, as reported by The Guardian.
Her Edinburgh home also features two “Harry Potter-esque” tree houses, according to a report by the Daily Mail:
The “Harry Potter” writer even had a “wall” of 30-ft hedges put up around her home to increase her privacy:
Her Scottish getaway with the 9 bedrooms:
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The piece ends with the comment: "At the time this article was published, J.K. Rowling had not responded to [the Twitters] offer.
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