It doesn’t seem like the the threats to JK Rowling are taken seriously. Or would you say that she’s not establishment despite being rich and powerful?
Good point. Here's my take.
She's not establishment in the sense of being pro-arms manufacturers or government censorship. She's just an author, albeit a successful one. Rich, yes, but "powerful" is a stretch.
The closest I think she's really come to establishment is being on the "No" side for the Scottish independence referendum, which I think is part of Craig Murray's beef against her, and hence the GC movement, when he went off on one the other day.
But otherwise, she's not really involved in politics, or playing political access games or anything. Her only major political issue is this one, and on this one she's absolutely anti-establishment.
And by questioning any establishment view, you're pretty much automatically ejected from the establishment of right-thinkers.
The examples I was thinking of above were from the US - Taylor Lorenz, a New York Times journalist who despite making a career out of doxxing wrongthinkers was fake crying in an interview about people being mean to her on Twitter, and Nina Jankowicz, prospective head of the new Disinformation Department for the Department of Homeland Security.
They're establishment. Part of the professional-managerial class running the show, telling everyone else who disagrees that they're horrible. And who would never deviate from the correct PMC position.
Here's a segment on Jankowicz - being asked in an interview "what was the experience of being the focal point of this massive frenzy over the past few weeks?"
Some women get to do that - help them use their identity as a shield to exercise power. JKR is not in that position, I think.
And Glenn Greenwald, who I generally admire, and is in that clip correctly skewering Jankowicz IMO, has failed to support JKR in the past.
That seems to be because he does file her under "powerful establishment" and hence is similarly cynical about claims of abuse towards her, as with other "powerful" women. He's fed up with criticising shitty reporters and being told off for "targetting young female journalists". (As if someone who is 36 and writing for the New York Times should be exempt from criticism).