Hi everyone I hope you're all well so Harry Potter author JK Rowling has what
you would call a complicated history with woken Asst she's undoubtedly what I
like to call a giant lefty she was very anti brexit massively anti Boros hugely
Pro UK labor although to be fair she was big Lee against Jeremy Corbyn and she
was relentlessly Pro refugee back when that cause was in vogue on the left and
as for how she feels about Donald Trump well let's say that according to her on
a scale of 1 to Voldemort Trump is about a 7 or 8 I would say she has also spent
a number of years desperately trying to retroactively Lee ad woke elements to
the Harry Potter books to what you'd call mixed reviews it started in 2007
when she revealed during a Q&A that Albus Dumbledore headmaster of Hogwarts
is in fact gay and had a love affair with the evil Dark Wizard Grindelwald
who he notably defeated in an epic duel in the early 20th century a few years
later she implied that Hermione who was played by the very Caucasian Emma Watson
in the films could actually have been black this was in response to the
criticism she received after the casting of a black actress to play Hermione in
the spin-off play Harry Potter and the cursed child in the original West End
production canon brown eyes frizzy hair and very clever white skin was never
specified Rowling loves black Hermione she's also responded to a number of fans
over the years who have questioned the diversity of her books to everyone
asking whether their religion / belief / non belief system is represented at
Hogwarts the only people I never imagined there are Wiccans she followed
that up with a response to a fan who asked her whether there were LGBTQ
students at Hogwarts but of course if Harry Potter has taught us anything it's
that no one should live in a closet which is of course a reference to the
fact that Harry spent his formative years living in the cupboard under the
stairs in the home of his villainous relatives Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon
and to capital JK Rowling also revealed in 2014 that there were in fact Jewish
students at Hogwarts citing one Anthony Goldstein
ravenclaw who was part of the first group of 40 students that Harry started
school with she even turned herself into an internet meme in early 2019 when in
an interview recorded in the DVD and blu-ray editions of fantastic beasts the
crimes of Grindelwald she stated this about the relationship between
Dumbledore and Grindelwald their relationship was incredibly intense it
was passionate and it was a love relationship but as happens in any
relationship gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on it one never
knows really what the other person is feeling
you can't know you can believe you know so I'm less interested in the sexual
side although I believe there is a sexual dimension to this relationship
then I am in the sense of the emotions they felt for each other which
ultimately is the most fascinating thing about all human relationships so
possibly this comedic clip from late 2018 sums up her decade of work
adaptations quite succinctly
you read my book you know why hey you know Hagrid yeah he's actually trying to
gender what yeah he used to go by her great but he's but now he's transgender
okay her mind he's in a wheelchair what are you saying Hermione Granger
yeah she's actually in a wheelchair the whole time no she wasn't
I remember multiple scenes where she was running around and you never mention a
wheelchair once well I just forgot to write it down but I meant it in my heart
how could you forget a detail like that hey don't blame me do you even know how
many things I need to remember for those books like even like you know many
spells I had to write like so many I can't remember everything I don't know
Ron was actually black you said he's your red hair Harry Potter I had Down
syndrome what what does that even mean Professor Snape was a single mother I'd
stop stop why are you doing this doing what
listen it would be fine if the characters were like this originally but
it seems like you're changing them after the fact so you can see more inclusive
and get good press oh okay I'm sorry I'll stop okay thank you wait just one
more thing what is it guess um guess what your character is
actually gay what'd I say guess which character is actually gay I don't know
all of them as you can see JK Rowling has for years
tried desperately to keep up with what is publicly acceptable and politically
correct even if it comes off as tokenistic and disingenuous at times
it's also interesting to track the progression of the woke brigade from
2007 until now I mean back then it was enough for them to have a
retrospectively gay Albus Dumbledore and now well nothing is enough for them
anymore it's tempting to fob off JK Rowling's flailing attempts to
retrospectively recontextualize Harry Potter for the modern work hordes on
Twitter as just another narcissistic celebrity push to be trendy and relevant
and to feel good about themselves however in the case of rolling I don't
think that is the situation I think she is genuinely a good person who genuinely
wants the best for people and who has a very genuine case of survivor's guilt
remember before she wrote Harry Potter in the mid-90s JK Rowling was about as
poor as you could be in Britain without being homeless she initially wrote the
books on a typewriter because she couldn't afford a computer all of a
sudden her passion project turns into an international juggernaut and she winds
up with enough money to last her ten lifetimes there has to be some part of
her that's thinking why did I of all people deserve to get out of the poverty
cycle when so many people are left behind remember she gave so much money
to charity at one point that she took herself off the Forbes billionaires list
in 2012 and she didn't make a song and dance about it either she just did it I
think she unlike your Alyssa Milano Jamila Jamila types he's actually a
moral human being who got so wound up with work culture in a desperate attempt
to do the right thing by everyone because she feels bad about her
incredible success and because she lives in that woke celebrity bubble she's been
tricked into believing in the world of Twitter and the Guardian is an accurate
reflection of what the general public truly thinks and feels and it is her
inherent goodness and maintaining of integrity that has driven JK Rowling to
finally draw a line in the sand when it comes to the perpetually woke last year
she shocked and outraged the worked masses when she publicly defended a
woman who was fired for saying words to the effect of biological sex is real
dress however you please call yourself whatever you like sleep with any
consenting adult who'll have you live your best life in peace and security but
force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real this caused
much wailing and gnashing of teeth among the work extremists on Twitter who are
so bound up in radical gender theory that it is no longer enough for people
to assert that sex and gender are two different things
they now have to have everyone saying biological sex either exists on a
spectrum or isn't real at all it was a particularly unfair reaction from them
given the fact that JK Rowling is one of the few celebrities I think who
genuinely wants to make everyone feel comfortable rather than just to prove
how virtuous she is again remember she pushed the theme of actual tolerance
Civet e+ an anti-authoritarian message throughout the Harry Potter books well
before it was cool to do so nevertheless her head was placed on the chopping
block because nowadays it doesn't matter what your track record is if you put one
toe perceivably outside the party line even with the best of intentions like
lamenting the fact that a woman has lost her job the work Brigade will roast you
on a spit as such JK Rowling was proverbially
cancelled on Twitter to the point where she actually disappeared off the
platform for several months now this perturbed me because the last thing
anyone should be doing is capitulating to Twitter mobs if you've not done
anything wrong thankfully however she is back on the internet and promoting her
new children's book the ichabob anyway everything seemed to be business as
usual you know she was adored by the lefty lovey's again until out of the
blue she tweeted this on June 7th people who menstruate I'm sure there used to be
a word for those people someone help me out one Ben wimp and rumored opinion
creating a more equal post covert nineteen world for people who menstruate
and needless to say Twitter exploded once more the golden girl of the
progressive left had defied the party dogma and they were not having it what
struck me about a lot of the responses were that it was that they implied a
sense of ownership over JK Rowling and her books as if she wasn't living up to
their lofty expectations and because they were such huge fans who had
invested so much time and energy in Harry Potter that she somehow owed them
her compliance that attitude is messed up and beyond narcissistic and yet it's
shown through MS Rowling I'm a physician who grew up reading your books and loves
them still I care for children and young adults some of whom menstruate but are
not female they are not girls are women and words like yours hurt them erode
their sense of safety and well-being imagine creating Voldemort and Slytherin
and then years later thinking yeah they had a good point what a disappointment
you've become Christ you are such a colossal disappointment what on earth
this is so disgraceful of all the hills to die on and for what reason
trans women are women and they are fighting for their lives when you push
this trans exclusionary agenda you make their lives infinitely more difficult
shame on you the characters you created would be
disappointed in you please stop being transferred if you were causing so much
damage hi Jake a long time HP fan here we donate thousands of period supplies
to people who menstruate each month and what I'd really like to say is shut up
thanks what a disappointment you have become to so many who used to look up to
you the world is experiencing such a divide right now and you go and choose
to divide it further I suppose once the money gets its claws in you and you
forget where you came from millions or billions of dollars still isn't enough
to afford you some decency Dumbledore would be disappointed I decided not to
take my own life because I wanted to know how Harry's story ended for a long
time that was all that kept me alive until I met my husband who helped me
learn to love myself and to one to live you just insulted him to my face I hate
you
as I'm sure you've noticed the word disappointment features a lot but of
course JK Rowling is not transfer big or hateful a trans exclusionary or any
other thing she's accused of she just draws the line at radical gender theory
which is fair enough because it is after all a theory and theories are up for
debate however rather than shrinking into the shadows or apologizing or a
capitulating to the mob JK Rowling proved I think that she does
have some integrity and she isn't just concerned with proving how virtuous she
is she stood up for herself if sex isn't real there's no same-sex attraction if
sex isn't real the lived reality of women globally is erased I know and love
trans people but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to
meaningfully discuss their lives it isn't hate to speak the truth the idea
that women like me have been empathetic to trans people for decades feeling
kinship because they're vulnerable in the same way as women that is to male
violence hate trans people because they think sex is real and has lived
consequences is a nonsense I respect every trans person's right to live any
way that feels authentic and comfortable to them I'd march with you if you were
discriminated against on the Bay of being trans at the same time my life
has been shaped by being female I do not believe it's hateful to say so okay so
JK Rowling literally could not be any more polite or succinctly that and good
on her for sticking by her principles principles which I would hazard a guess
most women and trans women for that matter would probably stand by as well
to make the point that Tim Poole made in his video on the subject which I highly
recommend that you will watch all JK Rowling did here was asked for her lived
experience to be acknowledged and the mob simply said no
which is very ironic considering that generally to people of that school of
political thought lived experience and personal truths should always be
respected and acknowledged and validated but again as the saying goes if the
regressive left didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any
standards at all so yet again we see another example of not just the
regressive left eating their own but of their progression to extremism
well JK Rowling said would not have been that controversial at all five years ago
at least not with so many noisy mainstream people even a couple of the
Harry Potter actors including Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe came out
against her unprompted those ungrateful little wretches but what we should all
take from this is that JK Rowling is not just one of those virtually signaling
trendy celebs we all love to hate on she is actually a good person with some
integrity who has finally finally found her limit hopefully she will encourage
people who share her sensible scientifically backed views to speak up
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