Oh FUCK OFF, BBC!

[SunsetBeetch]

Absolutely fucking sick of this shite now. Leave JKR alone!!!!!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5DdBBnrBnQt6vD2pVjZFs1Z/is-it-still-ok-to-read-harry-potter

..........and are employed by the BBC

Her book sales have increased by 9%

All book sales are on the up during lockdown and it does not seem surprising that a popular series like Harry Potter helps wile away dull hours. They could not have picked a worse time to cancel her.

It really is time to defund the BBC.

Millions of people are absolutely sick and tired of this sort of vacuous woke PC drivel being constantly rammed down our throats by an organisation we are forced to fund if we want to watch any TV. I’m sick and tired of being preached at and made to feel guilty for being a straight, white, English patriot.

The BBC should be privatised and forced to compete for audiences in a free market. Netflix has no problems selling millions of subscriptions, so why shouldn’t the BBC, if It’s confident there is a mass market for the virtue signalling crap it spews out every hour of every day.

The BBC are hypocritical bastards. They have employed Geoff Boycott and Phil Tuffnell for years, both convicted of assaults against women. Jeremy Clarkson hits a man and he is sacked, Boycott punched a woman 20 times, and still has a long BBC career.

There are many many other examples I'm sure, those were just off the top of my head.

@GCAcademic

This is exactly the kind of elitist, out-of-touch drivel that is hastening the BBC's demise. In 2010, when the coalition government came in and started threatening the BBC, I was distraught. Now I think they've brought it on themselves. Attacking individuals in this way is a new low and should not be the remit of a national broadcaster - it's state-sponsored bullying. As for lecturers who want safe spaces for their thinking to be unchallenged - grow up and do the job you're paid for.

I can’t argue with a word of that.

Miserable state of affairs.

In late 2019, J. K. Rowling faced criticism for expressing support for Maya Forstater, who lost her job at a thinktank after writing a tweet that said, “men cannot change into women.” Rowling was accused of transphobia

That is the actual crux of it.
That is the reason for this ridiculous crusade against her.

How many people will read that and be puzzled and think - that is just common sense?

Or do people just accept that if somebody at the BBC deems this to be transphobic then that is the matter settled?

PurpleWh1teGreen: I'm not sure I can take any article about a wannabe wizard seriously.

That was my reaction to the BBC article, but I thought I would listen to as much of the program as I could stomach.
After the initial resistance (“another whiny woke American”) I got quite interested in her account of why trans and LGB people might feel particularly possessive about JKR’S work, and interested also in the discussion of changing relationships between writers and their readers and changing relationships between readers and texts. Not at all what I expected.

I think the BBC’s relentless promotion of the trans agenda is appalling, but I wouldn’t complain about the content of this particular program.

But surely the actual sodding point is that JKR isn't transphobic just because she happens to believe humans can't change sex.

She refers to her ‘disagreement’ with JKR. Beyond that, there’s no attack on her views or character.

@Susie477

It really is time to defund the BBC.

Millions of people are absolutely sick and tired of this sort of vacuous woke PC drivel being constantly rammed down our throats by an organisation we are forced to fund if we want to watch any TV. I’m sick and tired of being preached at and made to feel guilty for being a straight, white, English patriot.

The BBC should be privatised and forced to compete for audiences in a free market. Netflix has no problems selling millions of subscriptions, so why shouldn’t the BBC, if It’s confident there is a mass market for the virtue signalling crap it spews out every hour of every day.

You know what even as little as 2 years ago I'd have read this sort of comment and though "Gah right wing bigot!" But now as a lifelong leftie I completely agree.

The BBC are privileged woke little shits.

Lol at title

Will read

This is an old piece isn't it?

Have they made it prominent again?

My comment on the person first in the article is. How do they react when they hear people read mein kamf or the little red book etc etc because they're interested in finding out what they say?

I mean also there must be scores of authors who've murdered and so on.

I don't get it.

"It’s actually quite a balanced article:"

No, it isn't. The mere publishing of this 'article' is a joke to journalism. They are fuelling a hate driven ideology by posting ridiculous nonsense. The simple answer is yes. There is nothing more to discuss. By making an article about it they lend credibility to the bullies.

Agree, MrGHardy. The very title raises questions. Someone - especially a someone who is afraid of being “on the wrong side of things”will immediately think there is something problematic about Harry Potter.

The BBC do this all the time. I now keep spotting those faux questions (I’ve seen anti-vaxxers employ the same tactic on MN) posed in an innocent manner, but getting their biased point across, eg “Should we be afraid of a fourth wave?” (Eeek! Is a fourth wave coming?) even if in the last para they mention that no one knows.