JKR accused of 'quoting hitler'

[Dominoodles]

Within the context of condemning political violence following the murder of Charlie Kirk, she quoted on X a line from Mein Kampf where Hitler talked about how he utilised political violence for his own gain. This was a clear statement in how allowing for political violence against one's rivals can lead to that in power manipulating things in order to harm others.

Unfortunately, articles are springing up across the internet shaming JKR for quoting or referring to this text at all, with many condemning her for 'nazi' views and accusing her of being far right.

(Personally I love JK, and it is such a shame that every single thing she says is twisted to mean the opposite of what she's actually saying!)

An aside: my wife and her sister returned from 3 days away, on a for making course. As I was driving to collect her, Atomic came on the radio?

Spooky co-incidence? I haven't heard it for ages...

That’s really weird. I also have a mainly left-leaning circle, and my experience is that I’ve had to be patient over the past decade over the way a lot of people shut their brains down as soon as the “TWAW” cliche came up. But lots of them didn’t, too. There have been a lot of us wondering why some people went completely mad on this subject.

The right-leaning people I know aren’t all GC, either. I know one family who transed their son (in rural Australia!) and as a result all my conservative in-laws are gaming the line that TW must be W because they know a child on puberty blockers.

How did you manage to curate your social circle so it’s only full of people you don’t like?

If you read my post you will see it says 'most of the people I know,' not 'my social circle.'

I know one family who transed their son (in rural Australia!) and as a result all my conservative in-laws are gaming the line that TW must be W because they know a child on puberty blockers.

The trans lobby certainly knew what they were doing when they set out to recruit children to the trans cause.

Otherwise rational people feel they have to become true believers because they are close to a child caught up in the cult.

OMG, you have also literally quoted Hitler!!! You must be one of those holocaust deniers!!! This is how fascism starts!!!

You see how easy it is to become 'Nazi-adjacent', SugarandSpiceandAllThingsNaice, now that you've been outed as a Hitler-quoter?

Deliberately misquoting, or quoting out of context, seems to be very common.
It makes reading primary sources so important - fortunately the internet, which is full of out-of-context, incomplete quotes, is also full of primary sources!

Who is "she"? The cat's father?

great point perfectly made 👏 just a few clips and you could include it in a list of Mumsnet Hitler quoters and make it a viral tweet.

Phrases that should be banned.

'breaks silence' or 'break silence'

Its in EVERY OTHER newspaper headline atm. Its total bollocks and means fucking nothing.

Someone could be happily rabbiting on about something and in no way silent, but just doesn't mention a particular subject in the a particular way.

Anyone who uses it should be cancelled regardless of their political alignment, just cos they are lazy, illiterate click baiters.

I have spoken. I should be law on this.

Any disagreement?

Nope thought not. Lets action this.

Yes, it means to finally answer, after a long period of not doing so, not "Responded after yesterday's incident."

I would support a party with that in their manifesto!
Can I also add the phrase "performative". It has a general meaning but increasingly just seems to be a way of casting aspersions on people going around their daily lives in public. It's quite a narcissistic way of viewing the world.Particularly "performative parenting" and "performative reading". Nothing to do with KKR. Just something I needed to say.

IIRC someone at a Let Women Speak event a while ago referenced the concept of The Big Lie: the idea that if you repeat a big enough falsehood often enough it becomes unchallengeable (which I hesitate to explain as that apparently makes me literally Goebbels, & in favour of murdering all my children whose names all began with H when the jig was finally up) & the TRAs were all “Posie Parker endorses Goebbels”.

Admittedly not read the thread (preferring the other thread about all the things JKR must have been guilty of) but it seems half hearted to stop at accusing her of "quoting" Hitler, when with a little extra effort they could accuse her of "being" a reincarnated Hitler.

Are you OK?

So Hitler’s writings need to be held in some kind of reverence? We can’t just quote them to show fascism for what it is?

Also off-topic, sorry, but I can't resist adding my pet hate:
'Tributes are being paid today to X...'
😬
I was caught out once when they said 'Tributes are being paid today to X...' and I thought Oh no, that's sad, so young, so talented... but in fact 'tributes were being paid' because she had left her current position to move on to another🙄

So it's not even an unambiguous cliché.

I see it as accurate. She quoted Hitler all properly in quotes and didn’t even forget to cite Mein Kampf as the Hitler authored source either.

It’s not an accusation so much as the truth.

JKR quoted Hitler.

The rest is just stans who think quoting Hitler is acceptable because it’s JKR!

Quoting someone doesn't mean you agree with them FFS.

Did JKR quote Hitler? Yes
Was it in the context of condemning Hitler or Nazis? No

Don’t be silly. The entire force of the message was to condemn Hitler! There really are some serious reading comprehension issues here.

You are a little late to the party and

a) have not read the thread or

b) have not understood what was discussed

So if no one can quote hitler, how can anyone criticise his ideas and words?

Nope. She wasn’t condemning Hitler. She was condemning the “many who scream fascist at opponents”

Hitler is dead so he isn’t doing any present tense screaming….😱 he hugged and drank and smoked with other fascists so he would not think of a fascist as an opponent.

Odd, how in 5 days you seem to have forgotten you said that she was making a comparison of her opponents to Hitler…

greengagesummers · 15/09/2025 22:46
Wasn’t she actually using the quote to suggest that anyone advocating violence is similar to Hitler?

Do your loved ones also notice you forgetting your own opinions and inexplicably arguing the opposite of what you said earlier?

https://www.dementia.co.uk/dementia-tests/do-at-home-dementia-test

Was JKR criticising Hitler? No