Rowling hits back at Putin after 'cancel culture' comment

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

JK Rowling has hit back at Vladimir Putin, after the Russian president cited her in a wide-ranging speech that saw him criticise "cancel culture".

At a televised meeting on Friday, Mr Putin compared recent criticism of the Harry Potter author to that faced by pro-war Russian composers and writers.

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Rowling has been criticised for her views on transgender issues.

"Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics," the Harry Potter author wrote on Twitter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rowling-hits-back-at-putin-after-cancel-culture-comment/ar-AAVuGiC

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Rowling is a vicious transphobe and her opinions are neither wanted nor needed, she can fuck off

no surprise Putin feels sympathetic though.

[Hekate]

2. Rowling is an excellent author & nowhere have I found evidence of transphobia in her writings

I appreciate her sharp response to Putin

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. Evidence of her transphobia is everywhere on her twitter feed.

[CrackityJones75]

5. Ok let's see it.

If it is all over I haven’t seen it. I have seen where she makes statement regarding trans and womens rights and the murky area there. Calling her a transphobe seems like a gross mischaracterization to me.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

7. She is 100% clearly a TERF. If you don't see that, that's on you.

[CrackityJones75]

23. Show me.

I don’t follow her. I just hear the accusations.

[AntivaxHunters]

19. She's a transphobic bigot

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=ob3PIys0JO97F1zd6Q_GpQ

[CrackityJones75]

24. Thank you for sharing that.

I mean I am not really sure just what the fuck she is trying to say here. It seems like an attempt at raising attention more than anything. I don’t doubt that she could be a transphobe. I just haven’t went looking for it. And a google search of “Is JK Rowling a transphobe” doesn’t aeem like the sort that I want to see the results of.

I don’t however doubt that she could be.

[AntivaxHunters]

35. She is problematic

And this has been an issue with her for awhile now. Sad really & quite disgusting that she's a TERF.

[North Shore Chicago]

40. x 1000

[NoRethugFriends]

4. Then you haven't been paying attention

[Cuthbert Allgood]

6. So you haven't read The Silkworm, then? Cool.

You might want to do a little more research before you back her. She is a horrible transphobe TERF.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. You haven't been paying attention:

https://inmagazine.ca/2020/06/j-k-rowlings-history-of-transphobia/

https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/13/jk-rowling-casts-transphobic-tweets-again

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/09/jk-rowling-transphobia-new-novel-troubled-blood-controversy

[Eugene]

9. Here's what Rowling says in her own words.

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/

It's long, but the most controversial stuff starts around the 20th paragraph.

[progressoid]

18. +1 n/t

[IngridsLittleAngel]

10. In her writings, no

All over Twitter and interviews, absolutely. Not to mention how "nice" she's been to Stephen King since he replied to someone saying "trans women are women":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/05/24/jk-rowling-canceled-stephen-king-for-supporting-transgender-women/?sh=6379d11d4bf5

[Cuthbert Allgood]

13. Read The Silkworm and get back to me.

She has written more fiction than Harry Potter.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

15. I'm fully aware of what a TERF she is and how much of a transphobic bigot she is

As a result, I have zero desire to read any of her garbage - whether it's Potter or non-Potter. I never read any of her stuff prior to her removing her mask and showing us what a bigot she is... I have even less of a desire to do so now.

If The Silkworm is awful, vile, transphobic, etc... I'll gladly take your word on it. But I despise Rowling and her transphobia so much that I would rather read The Memoirs of Richard M. Nixon before I read anything she writes.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

16. Well, then, you can stop saying it's not in her writings. Trust me.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

17. What she spews on Twitter and interviews erases all doubt and has for years

I'm sure someone with more patience than me has cataloged all her transphobic tweets, along with the charming things she's had to say in interviews. Just like the QOP in this country, it seems her life is a neverending mission to punch down on the trans community.

How bad is she? Honestly? She's so damned transphobic that she blocked Stephen King on Twitter (the link I first posted) because he came out in defense of trans women.

And thank you for taking the time to read The Silkworm. If it's that bad... I think I'd get about 20 pages through it before deciding it has more use in a lit fireplace than on a bookshelf.

[BlackSkimmer]

12. Thank you.

The use of the word "vicious" to describe Rowling is puzzling.

[Hekate]

21. I knew instantly I was going to regret this....

But in fact I have read all her Potter books (which are justifiably famous) and have sampled her adult novels, which are not to my taste.

Apparently the Potter books are such that young people across cultures write themselves into the stories in online fanzines. Some years back I read that young fans in India were convinced Harry himself was Indian (like Padma and her twin) because of his coal-black hair. I appreciated how she took on radical adult politics, right through the fascist takeover of the Ministry and Hogwarts itself, and showed that youngsters could form their own resistance movement. I’ve been intrigued that her stage plays have ranged afield in casting Hermione as Black, and in other ways that invite youngsters to continue to “write themselves in” to the story. Quite awhile ago she said Dumbledore was gay and he always had been gay — and that raised a stink in, yes, America.

I do not follow her utterances on Twitter or interviews, except very sporadically, where she clearly must have revealed her human fallibility and feet of clay. Viciously.

[Voltaire2]

41. The only black character in the Potter books

is named “Kingsley Shacklebolt”. The anti-Semitic trope of “beak-nosed greedy goblins that work in a bank”. The one Asian character named “Cho Chang”. The one Jewish character named “Anthony Goldstein”. And of course an Irish character named “ Seamus Finnegan”.

She’s a walking fount of bigotry but yeah after the fact Dumbledor got to be gay.

[Hekate]

42. There's at least one Black student we meet at Hogwarts. Read the books. Read the plays. Read ....

… the fanfic or reviews of the fanfic. Read with an open mind to the world she created, an open mind to the several intersecting genres she works with, including the British boarding school genre.

Read it as British, not American. Look for representatives of the former British Empire to show up: India, Africa, China, the Middle East. Look for representatives of the United Kingdom, where the children live and where the school is placed: Irish, Welsh, Scots, Anglo-Saxon — and their social classes. Have you ever been to London? I was there once, and was staggered at the layers of diversity: the whole former Empire comes to London to do business or to stay, and then some.

Kingsley Shacklebolt is one of the adult heroes, for gods’ sake.

As for students, immediate classmates of Harry’s are drawn vividly — redheaded Ron, who comes from an economically disadvantaged but talented family, Padma and Parvati Patil, Cho Chang, and others.

The rest are background — crowding the hallways, their races and religions and family origins implied by the ones the reader is introduced to. This is not a sociology text book with charts and graphs. It is a work of fiction. You, the reader, are invited to fill in the spaces. Children, for whom the Potter books were written, understand this intuitively — and the spaces are where they “write themselves in.”

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. I suppose, if all you've read are the Harry Potter books. But even those were full of bigotry.

Her adults novels, though -- the transphobia is loud and clear.

[Dial H For Hero]

28. I only read the first Harry Potter book. What sort of bigotry is in the rest of the series?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

29. Racism, cultural stereotypes, fatphobia, the assumption that looks morality, etc.

[AntivaxHunters]

20. JK Rowling is a bigot

From GLAAD https://www.glaad.org/gap/jk-rowling

From The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/13/jk-rowling-casts-transphobic-tweets-again

[hunter]

25. There are transphobic people in my own family which is just fucking weird.

Apparently it has something to do with sports.

[lagomorph777]

11. Cancel Culture vs Cancer Culture

They hate it when decent people fight back.

[jcgoldie]

22. Bigot or not

I haven't read her twitter nor much of her books either.. nor do I intend to. But if she wants to smack Putin in the mouth and humiliate him after he held her up as some sort of kindred victim of the evil western cancellors... I'm all for it. Enemy of my enemy and all and Putin is a much more heinous enemy no matter what Rowling ever wrote on twitter.

[vercetti2021]

26. Oh now she hates it huh?

She wants to cancel us so doesn't feel so good does it ya fucking TERF

[IngridsLittleAngel]

32. Yeah. She's a fine one to speak of canceling, considering what she's done to try to cancel us

But no surprise that along with being a bully and a bigot, she's a hypocrite too.

And, no, world.. Sometimes the "enemy of my enemy" is not our friend. JacKass Rowling is proof of that.

[ruet]

27. Many People Seem to be Missing the Forest for the Trees.

Instead of focusing on JKR, focus on Putin's real target. This was tailor made right wing, American, fascists. Snippets of this diatribe are, no doubt, making their way across RW boards at this very second. I wouldn't be surprised if Tucker embraced it vey soon.

[rockfordfile]

30. She's basically sounding just like the fascist putin, with her response.

look I've neve read any of her books. When I change the TV channels a Harry Potter movie will be on "The Family Channel", I remember when the 700 Club would call them the devil's or witches books.

You should always get booted when you're a racist and fascist un-American pos.

[pnwmom]

33. How does her response sound anything like Putin?

"Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics," the Harry Potter author wrote on Twitter.

[Hekate]

36. I'd like to know that myself, coming as it does from someone who's never read the books & thinks...

… the movies are nothing but Family Channel pablum.

[JI7]

38. Can you explain how her response sounds like Fascist Putin ?

[budkin]

31. They are both terrible people

So have at it.

[pnwmom]

34. Oh yeah, right. Don't people here have any sense of proportion?

Only one of them is responsible for driving millions of Ukrainians from their homes, murdering thousands of civilians, and destroying infrastructure all over Ukraine.

Putin is in a league by himself.

[Hekate]

37. No, people here don't have any sense of proportion & can turn on a dime when someone famous...

… disappoints them by not being a plaster saint. Every other part of their life now deserves to be cast into the fiery pits of Hell.

[Voltaire2]

39. Plaster saint? She's an outspoken bigot.

She wallows in her bigotry. She goes out of her way to make sure people know how bigoted she is.