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Typical conservative victim complex. They’re living in another reality where they think they’d be jailed for “thinking the wrong thing.”
I wish I could tell her: No, Rowling. You’re a bigot. Your punishment is social in nature. And as much as you pretend you don’t care or are so brave for bullying the trans community you’ll always know deep down that you’re just a disappointment to those you once inspired to be better.
I wonder how her kid she wrote the books for feels about her these days. Sadly, I’m sure since he ultimately grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth he thinks his mother loves him unconditionally and is sticking up for what she believes in, just like she taught him to do. What’s more sad though is the thought of him having friends his age—our age—my age who have woken up to the klaxon sirens of her hatred and criticize the mother who taught him all this. Again. I’m sure the reality is that the wealth he’s inheriting keeps him insulated from making friends who are harmed by all this, or are even aware of this harm, but I can imagine a world where he feels conflicted about that his mother has provided everything someone could want, and also knowing she’s horrible. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be in that situation.
Now for speculation time. I anticipate he will never speak out one way or the other
Maybe he’s a she now and that’s why Rowling became so toxic. Just like with Musk.
I’m pretty sure she’s currently facing up to 45,000 euros in fines and up to 5 years in jail over the whole Imane Khelif situation, if the French legislature decides that she was a party responsible for cyber bullying (and Musk as well).
Will she ever see the inside of a cell, even if they decide to go after her? I highly doubt it, and when she said this, she definitely wasn’t in any danger of being arrested.
But we can always dream.
Not the UK though. Too chicken shit to enforce it. Beside, they also allow for the discrimination of the trans community, they aren’t protected IIRC.
Oh no, this poor rich woman! How will she ever afford a fine that is .00007% of her net worth?!
She lives in the UK where you absolutely can go to prison for expressing hateful views.
J.K. Rowling is not getting arrested for her speech as evidenced by the fact that she hasn’t been yet. Until she says “Kill them right now I demand it. Kill people who identify as trans. I am calling for violence” no one will do a damn thing. And even then she might get away with it.
I bet she’ll be walking free no matter what timeline you want to set. It’s a safe bet for me.
Expressions of hatred toward someone on account of that person’s colour, race, sex, disability, nationality (including citizenship), ethnic or national origin, religion, or sexual orientation, but not transgender status is forbidden.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_United_Kingdom
fucking lol
Going out of your way to specifically exclude trans people from the laws that protect all other vulnerable groups like that is some NUCLEAR bigotry!
My mind played a record scratch at the end. Just why?
What the fuck?
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“Nobody is going to jail you for your dumbass opinions. I wish they would, because that would be hilarious to me.” I wish I could say that in her face.
Can we stop giving this bitch the attention she so desperately craves?
Can people just stop fanatically Following rich idiots?
Came here to say this. Cunt should be old news, yet here she is living in minds rent free.
She is recently being sued by the Olympian she harrased online.
That really sucks for her. But why does anyone care outside of schadenfreude?
Schadenfreude is fun?
What prison is she going to go to? There is no asshole prison for “persecuted” B celebs.
This stuff is like Peterson crying he gets cancelled while he has 50 million views.
This post has made me realise my oversight. I had not added “Rowling” to my Lemmy keyword filter.
Good shout. Going right below Elon and Trump
Same here. On it.
Alleluja, you have seen the light
She is not in the threat of jail though, just there’s a possibility of losing some money.
Feels like she is trying to play a victim and implying that freedom of speech is under attack and people are jailed for opinions, when in reality it is about hurting someone.
Her tweet was in response to an anti-hate law (Hate Crime and Public Order Act) this year, where you could spend up to 7 years in prison for example, communicating in a way “that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive.” So, if charged in Scotland, she could go to prison.
Though she’s rich, so probably not.
I believe it actually is for opinions, but not in a bad way. If she had something like trigger warnings, it wouldn’t hurt anyone, but it still wouldn’t be ok. It’s not about hurting someone, it’s about spreading harmful opinions
Your statement is not correct.
Prove it. I proved the guy above me was wrong
Not really. They asserted a thing, to which you, I think, mostly agreed with them, but in an obtuse way. Within your own comment, how would “spreading harmful opinions” not be hurting someone? Where does the harm come from?
It really just comes of as the OP giving a fairly reasonable statment about JKR probably not looking at jail time, and how they think she is probably cynically using that for clout. Then you come in saying you believe it isn’t that for niche not-really-addressing-their-point reasons, which is proving them wrong on the level of say sunglasses emoji, gottem.
Lol, is that what you think you did?
Nah, dude. Arguing with an idiot is never productive.
The Harry Potter series was such a prominent part of my childhood. I remember my teacher reading the books to the class as they came out. I loved every moment and eagerly looked forward to each book release. It is truly a disappointment that someone I held in such high regard has decided that making other people feel bad is how they wish to be remembered.
JK Rowling created a magical world that has evolved and surpassed her in every way.
It’s especially frustrating because of how much it’s written to accept people who are different (as long as they aren’t fat, or a woman who speaks up, or standing against slavery and exploitation).
There’s a part of me that still resides in Hogwarts too, but damn revisiting those books as an adult and seeing all of the things I just accepted as fine when I was a kid really sucked.
There are stories I greatly enjoyed as a child that I just can’t read anymore with new context.
I remember finding out David and Leigh Eddings abused a child that ended up being removed from their care. I tried rereading their books and only a couple of chapters in there were men discussing the importance of beating a child to enforce discipline. I glossed over this as a child thinking it’s just medieval culture, but as an adult knowing that this is evidently something the authors genuinely practiced I couldn’t continue.
The fatphobia is real, but I’ve never bought the bit about the books being against Hermione’s anti-slavery stance (I assume that’s what you mean by a woman who speaks up as well). My interpretation was that Hermione was always assumed to be in the right because slavery is almost universally condemned in modern society. But she’s standing up against a system where even one of her two closest friends has been indoctrinated into it. Standing up to “others” is hard, but standing up to peer pressure is harder.
That said, the depiction of chattel slavery is of course inaccurate. Slave revolts were common, whereas the house elves want to be subservient to humans. I guess that could be marked up to house elves being a distinct species that may have been manipulated to be subservient, but that’s never explained.
For the first part, sure you could be right. Still, once the books are over and they become adults, they don’t do anything about it. I think Hermione goes on to become the minister of magic or something, but she doesn’t try to change the system. This is presumably because Rowling thinks wanting to chang the system is childish and wrong, but that’s just a guess.
As for the latter, no the house elves don’t all want to be slaves. We know Doby at least didn’t want to be. Just because Rowling wrote in a character after the complaints came it that is an elf who’s entire purpose is about being owned doesn’t undermine that at least some don’t. It also doesn’t even begin to discuss the indoctrination behind this and if that’s acceptable.
The hero children also recognize the mistreatment of other intelligent magical creatures is wrong too, such as the centaurs or goblins. Again, they are made to not address this after the war, and also almost no one in the society seems to care. These themes are everywhere in the books, yet any time anyone tries to change the system they’re mocked.
Hermione got involved in house-elf welfare as an adult and was successful. I am not sure where that is covered, I think maybe Cursed Child? I don’t know much about what happens after the series is over, so I can’t speak to that in detail.
Ah, OK. Yeah, I also don’t know a whole lot about what happened, but I guess that’s better than I expected. Still, not working to change the system like you would hope with how passionately she was against it. I don’t really recall all that she does after, but just remember it wasn’t radical.
Plenty of activists, even those with radical opinions, take that approach. They have a long term goal in mind, but to get to that goal they try to make incremental changes with the power they have.
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The artist and the art are intrinsically intertwined. Lovecraft’s work (to use a less immediate example) has all of his fears, including racism, built into the bones of the stories. Skillet is fundamentally culty Christian types, once you understand that their more normal music takes on a creepy meaning.
It’s possible to pull unintentional meaning from a work, we do it all the time, but that doesn’t mean the original intent should be disregarded. That idea is practically anti-art imo.
I had never seen “separate the art from the artist” so much until Joanne opened her stupid fucking mouth. Its funny to me that dropping brands for supporting bad things was so easy for people until it was Harry Potter at stake. As someone that never got into it in the first place, it kinda pissed me off.
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Using that phrase in the context of parent and child is wild. You’re weird.
I just don’t understand why someone would spend this much time trying to make a small group of people miserable. Doesn’t she have better things to do with her time?
JK Rowling somehow turned into one of those weird ladies on Nextdoor who has nothing better to do.
She could end all hunger in the UK and she chooses to do this. idk if you need to have a broken brain to become rich, or if becoming rich breaks your brain, but I can’t imagine having all those resources available to me and not trying to put them to good use.
It may just be easier to get rich if you’re fucked in the head already. Risk avoidance? That’s the sign of a smart person, but most ways for a poor to become a rich are far more likely to fail than succeed. Empathy? Healthy, but that’d stop you from stepping on people on the way up.
Especially as a writer, idk about other countries but the USA’s literacy levels are abysmal (half the population reads at a 10 year old’s level or worse!), so an idiot would have the largest audience.
I just don’t understand why someone would spend this much time trying to make a small group of people miserable
She explains why here. Quite long, not very logical or convincing.
The black mold is truly rotting her brain to the point of no return.
JK, trans people in the UK are closer to being sent to prison that you, a bigoted shitlib billionaire.
Claiming things does not make them true.
Yeah, everyone knows you have to at least say it in a funny way while waving a stick around.
Spoken like a privileged ass person who knows she’s not going to jail and that the punishment will be monetary at worst. Can’t stand people like this who act hard about jail like it’s no big deal.
I wish her all the happiness she deserves
Did anyone tell her she wouldn’t be able to obsessively post her anti-trans screeds from prison? I bet she’s not so hot on the idea now.
Hasn’t stopped Tate. Something tells me an actual billionaire is going to have phone privileges.
Is Andrew Tate even in prison? Last time i was in Bucharest(excluding right now), i heard he was even able to leave the country
Its almost as if there is no justice for rich people, eh?
I know some romanian presidents got into prison, but im not sure they were rich
Also, as far as i know, its only delayed, not forgiven
So she supports laws that would make transphobic views a criminal offense? Didn’t take her for such a progressive thinker.
Not just transphobic: Intersex-phobic and libelous
It is not clear if she is intersex btw, the whole situation was a lot of people on both sides jumping to conclusions.
you didn’t want her to be happy before she was a transphobe?
Maybe they were only aware of Rowling once her transphobia came to light?
come on dude, everyone knows harry potter
Everyone knows a popular book series.
Not everyone knows, or even cares about the author.
Lol, that might be me, almost. I knew the movies and books existed (I think I have watched one), but I kinda doubt I remembered the writer’s name. Just few years ago I made a friend who critisized the writer about her transphobic views and that’s kinda how I got to know her😅
(I have to admit, I’m bad at watching movies/series or reading literature and just few years ago I tried to start reading literature systematically.)
Is that the guy who runs the ceramics shop down the road?
Yeah, he sells great jars. Check them out sometime.
Harry who?
Considering whats in her books I always knew she was at least a tad bit bigoted
What’s in there?
There’s the Gringotts bankers being a grotesque antisemitic stereotype straight out of Nazi propaganda, there’s the racist caricature character names, there’s the fact that only one character in the entire wizarding world is against slavery and she drops the subject forever after everyone makes fun of her for it, probably other shit I’m not remembering right now…
There’s the Gringotts bankers being a grotesque antisemitic stereotype straight out of Nazi propaganda
If it’s like in the movies this sound like a stretch, pretty much every fantasy has something like this
there’s the fact that only one character in the entire wizarding world is against slavery
Isn’t dobby being freed from his slavery and help herry one of the main event in the story?
In my head canon: Dobby was killed by the author because he was the one elf to reject slavery.
“uppity little fucker!” – Rowling’s internal monologue
Why would you think that? Dobby is one of the best characters in the story, he was freed from slavery by Harry and he gave his life to save him
Normal fantasy stuff like species representing racial stereotypes and slavery (yeah I don’t get why it’s “normal” in fantasy, she also did it worse then most others)
I would go so far as to say that most fantasy works that have slavery have either a “The world is an awful place everywhere, at all times, in all things” tone, or a “Slavery is BAD” tone. Whereas Rowling went for “Aktually, the slaves are happy and you shouldn’t try to help them”
So are you making an argument against all fantasies?
Shaun made a good Video about the bigotry and liberal naivety of the Harry Potter series (including some pointings to her other works)
She’s always been a “new labour” type. There were certainly people who disliked her before she went full TERF.
I personally assumed she already was, and I don’t actively wish happiness on people who already experience it. But that’s just me
Maybe just didn’t care one way or another. It’s just a joke, though.
Honestly I wouldn’t mind spending time in billionaire jail either.
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Bruh Average twitter person tweet I guess
