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She's such a hateful bigot, isn't she?

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SunsetBeetch · 17/05/2021 10:02

JK Rowling has donated £1 million of royalties from one of her children’s books to help fight the Covid-19 crisis in India.

The Harry Potter author is understood to have split the sum between two UK-based charities involved in relief work, including the provision of emergency oxygen supplies.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowlings-1m-fairytale-gift-to-covid-oxygen-charities-csn5xb9tv

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SunsetBeetch · 17/05/2021 16:17

Well this thread started weird and got weirder. Has it been posted on twitter, perchance? 'Cause this is twitter levels of discourse we're being treated to (NB this is NOT a compliment.)

Grin
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MsTSwift · 17/05/2021 16:14

She’s a good woman. Troubled Blood was a great read got me through a dark lock down anyway both my parents agreed though none of us guessed the murderer!

Mowzy · 17/05/2021 16:07

@Thumpsquids

I though JK's message was pretty clear:

'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?'

No phobia there. Everything else is in support of the rights of women and girls. If you're looking specifically for transphobia, you'll find it, or, more likely, something that you deem is transphobic. Pro-women, not anti-trans. Huge difference.

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Tanith · 17/05/2021 16:06

"Remember that cigar smoking disc jockey?"

You mean the one Lily Madigan used to impersonate and admire so much?

nixonten · 17/05/2021 15:59

Let me try this.
It may not help but I decided to share it.

She's such a hateful bigot, isn't she?
mollythemeerkat · 17/05/2021 15:56

@babbaloushka - the tweets above are horrible but the people writing them just sound incoherent and ill-educated to me. or alternatively as if they just looked up phrases from a list of "what to say to people you disagree with". Bit pathetic really.

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 17/05/2021 15:55

I think cripez village is putting up 'Lost' posters for them as we speak.

babbaloushka · 17/05/2021 15:49

@NotBadConsidering

so I don't see why calling JKR GC is considered to be an insult?

You said JKR has enabled transphobes. Your evidence for this is “just look under her tweets”. This is unfounded bullshit.

However, if you did look under her tweets at the time you would have seen this:

medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-activists-a-story-in-screenshots-78e01dca68d

I’m sure, peachgreen you have an “enabled transphobes” equivalent?

God that was hard to read. How vile.
ArabellaScott · 17/05/2021 15:48

@HecatesCatsInFancyHats

So we've had Hitler & now Jimmy Saville. I hope you know any neutral observers reading this will know that it is beyond risible to compare JK Rowling to those two. It's so patently clear that she isn't a genocidal psychopath with a desire to conquer the world, nor is she a serial abuser of children, I know you think shrieking bigot and making these comparisons will make most people run a mile from the issue and not speak out, but it really is wearing thin. It simply highlights the paucity of your argument. The curtain has been pulled back...
Abso bogging lutely.
twelly · 17/05/2021 15:46

JKR is entitled to donate how wants and I think she is very generous and moral individual aiding those less fortunate.

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Whatstheweatherlike · 17/05/2021 15:42

Wading through lockdown last year was so hard for so many people. Watching the story of the Ickabog unfold on Twitter and reading the reams of detailed comments JKR made about the children's artwork was honestly one of the brightest things for me during that time. To watch her spend hours in such a thoughtful way and then donate all the profits to Covid charities, yes that takes a certain character. To see that as comparable to Jimmy Saville, well what can I say Gottalife. If that's your strongest argument, I have to tell you it's piss poor.

RedDogsBeg · 17/05/2021 15:41

@ClawedButler

Yep. "Be who you are and express yourself however you want, you are perfect just as you are" apparently means, "I hate transpeople so much I want them to LITERALLY DIE"
The violence ClawedButler, the literal violence, the existence denying violence...
junipertree2 · 17/05/2021 15:40

@NotBadConsidering

“Emboldened transphobes” is TRA speak for given women and allies the courage to speak out for women’s rights. Given “transphobe” is such a vague term which includes people who don’t want convicted sex offenders housed in women’s prisons, don’t want males in women’s sport, and are concerned about children making life-changing decisions that will medicalise their bodies for the rest of their lives at an age they can’t consent, I am eternally grateful for JK Rowling giving people the strength to stand up for these concerns.
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ClawedButler · 17/05/2021 15:37

Yep. "Be who you are and express yourself however you want, you are perfect just as you are" apparently means, "I hate transpeople so much I want them to LITERALLY DIE"

TedImgoingmad · 17/05/2021 15:36

Oh, I thought you meant Trudeau there.

To name another powerful public figure who is so unequivocal in his pro-trans stance he's wiping out women's rights to safety, privacy, sports, etc altogether.

It's amazing he can fit it in around his busy black face schedule.

RedDogsBeg · 17/05/2021 15:34

@Zeev

Incredible, isn't it, and when we mention safeguarding we are slated to be burnt at the stake.

Haven't you heard? 'Safeguarding' is a transphobic dogwhistle

Ah, oops! Another one on the ever growing and ever extensive list which must be eclipsing War and Peace for it's length, it would take considerably less time to say what isn't a transphobic dog whistle than what is.
Zeev · 17/05/2021 15:28

Incredible, isn't it, and when we mention safeguarding we are slated to be burnt at the stake.

Haven't you heard? 'Safeguarding' is a transphobic dogwhistle

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 17/05/2021 15:25

Good thread.
And yes, well "ratio'd".
JKRowling is an amazing woman who has used her wealth for good - and there are still brainwashed cultists and their supporters out there baying for her blood.
Saddos.

AlfonsoTheTerrible · 17/05/2021 15:23

I thought that comparing Rowling to Hitler was pretty funny but comparing her to Jimmy Saville might be even funnier in its lunacy.

BlackeyedSusan · 17/05/2021 15:14

personally I think she's a bit of a witch, rather than an overlord, but which one? Minerva possibly; tough as old boots and stands up for what is right in the face of opposition, and does not put up with nonsense from the young 'uns. Wink

RedDogsBeg · 17/05/2021 15:13

@OldLang

Imagine even mentioning that monster Saville when it was the TRAs bombarding JKR's Twitter with violent pornography as a response to the Ickabog campaign that children were very likely to see. Despicable.
Incredible, isn't it, and when we mention safeguarding we are slated to be burnt at the stake.
Erikrie · 17/05/2021 15:12

I know you think shrieking bigot and making these comparisons will make most people run a mile from the issue and not speak out, but it really is wearing thin.

It really is wearing thin. People can see this for what it is, and it's not working anymore.

Thecatonthemat · 17/05/2021 15:09

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OldLang · 17/05/2021 15:04

Imagine even mentioning that monster Saville when it was the TRAs bombarding JKR's Twitter with violent pornography as a response to the Ickabog campaign that children were very likely to see. Despicable.