Hagrid doesn't drink Kool Aid

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According to the Standard, Robbie Coltrane is rather fed up of the easily offended

www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/robbie-coltrane-jk-rowling-trans-row-a4547546.html

Thank fuck for that. I couldn't cope with a woke Cracker

Oh, get over yourself. Wise up, stand up straight and carry on. 😂

Oh, I do agree with this. How do people have time to be so offended, all the time? I wouldn't have the energy.

I love how every time some passes comment on her comments (either for or against) they reprint her original statement for people to read.

I'm glad that he said as much as he did, but the article also implies that he's not saying all he would like to:

Cracker star Coltrane, 70, said he did not want to go further because, “I don’t want to get involved in all of that because of all the hate mail and all that s*, which I don’t need at my time of life”.

The Wokerati are good at what they do...

Oh I'm so pleased. I was starting to think the whole HP cast had turned their wokey idiot backs on her. Thank goodness one of them has a brain and is standing up to be counted!

Too many people with too much time. There is so much useful stuff some of these individuals could do than typing nonsense on Twitter. My DC have volunteered in food banks and refugee camps for example. This gives people a more balanced view of what is important.

Well about bloody time.

He was an excellent Hagrid.

Maybe "get over yourself" would fit on a t shirt? I've heard a similar slogan somewhere...

It's a small group of the HP cast. Most of them have kept well out of it.

Up to Daniel Radcliffe etc. if they want to go poking the hornets' nest. There's no reason for any of them to declare one way or another.

because of all the hate mail

Therefore acknowledging the hate that the GC get. Well done Robbie!

I like that he's specifically said he can't say more because of hate mail, which is a good, strong message that he's not sitting on the fence and may lead to the unaware questioning what he means by that.

I used to have my kids in stitches with my Hagrid voice when reading the books. When the first film came out I was spot on

Thank God for a bloody grown up. I'd like to think that Radcliffe/Watson/Grint et al might take note of what Robbie has said, and rethink - but I am not holding my breath.

That will upset the crazy obsessive fans than. Let's see if they try to cancel Hagrid.

I was dismayed when the film came out. Because I was reading the books to the children and booked Hagrid as a Lancashire lad! Robbie has him as West Country. All my work in vain

Well done Robbie and i'm sorry I thought you were no longer with us, for some reason. I'm glad to hear you're both very much alive and kicking woke ideot arse.

*idiot even

They won't target Hagrid/Coltrane because he's not what they want to be. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Cracker star Coltrane, 70, said he did not want to go further because, “I don’t want to get involved in all of that because of all the hate mail and all that s, which I don’t need at my time of life”.

Meh. He's a bloke. He'll be fine. No threats of physical violence, forced oral or rape for him. That's just for the.. um.. what do we call us now? Women is not allowed, right? That's for the ex-men. Do we have a new name we're allowed to use?

Good old Robbie - thanks for speaking out.

@ARoombaOfOnesOwn

I love how every time some passes comment on her comments (either for or against) they reprint her original statement for people to read.

This.

It's a cracking wee statement, too.

@langclegflavoredbananamush

I'm glad that he said as much as he did, but the article also implies that he's not saying all he would like to:

Cracker star Coltrane, 70, said he did not want to go further because, “I don’t want to get involved in all of that because of all the hate mail and all that s*, which I don’t need at my time of life”.

The Wokerati are good at what they do...

By saying what he did - "I don’t want to get involved in all of that because of all the hate mail and all that s**" - he alerts people to the fact that hate mail and shit is the consequence of speaking up. Hopefully, people will ask why that should be.

He also said "They wouldn’t have won the war, would they? That’s me talking like a grumpy old man, but you just think, ‘Oh, get over yourself. Wise up, stand up straight and carry on.’”
Coincidentally, watching the lunchtime BBC news they were interviewing John Hemingway, last surviving of the 'few', the fighter pilots in the Battle of Britain. Shot down twice already by the age of 20. Lots of footage of young men scrambling into aircraft, exhausted by two months of constant raids. Hemingway crediting his survival to luck, not skill. I found it very affecting.

So when I then read Coltrane's comment, the contrast between this dignified 101 year old (who DID win the war) and those who Coltrane described as "a whole Twitter generation of people who hang around waiting to be offended" and who "wouldn’t have won the war" - well that contrast was so sharp and made Coltrane's comment hit harder than it would have otherwise. What do these people think they're contributing to this world? That little news article just makes them seem so pointless. Sorry, I'm wittering now, still trying to process why that two-minute article on the news has made such an impact.

It made my day. I love Robbie Coltrane. Though how he can be 70 is baffling!

Go on Robbie!

Yes, Robbie just gave a lesson to Emma, Rupert and and Daniel on how to respond to the twitter mob. No pandering, no mansplaining, no parroting meaningless mantras. And no throwing anyone under the bus for woke points.
Straight talking at its finest.

I'd love to see a Cracker where he uncovers that someone is the thing we are not allowed to discuss.

He could give it a proper name and everything.