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This is such a low-effort shitpost. "Person I don't like probably thinks even worse thing than I've heard her say"
I think what the person on Twitter wrote is in response to Rowling going off on a rant about cisgender female boxer, Imane Khelif (from Algeria), in the Olympics, and insisting that she's a man. Rowling's tweet here. There's an article here that outlines the response from the Olympics, and the other female boxer, Italian boxer Angela Carini, who lost to Imane Khelif.
Carini, however, said to reporters after the match: “I wish her to carry on until the end and that she can be happy … I am not here to judge or pass judgment. If an athlete is this way, and in that sense it’s not right or it is right, it’s not up to me to decide.”
And as that article also notes:
It’s also worth noting that it is illegal to be transgender in Algeria – so to peddle the information that the country would send a trans athlete to compete in the Olympics would frankly be laughable if it wasn’t so maddening.
Edit: Forgot to link to the article.
And yet, at no point did she say or even infer "only white people can be women" nor bring race into the issue. The OP disagreeing with Rowling on transgender issues is absolutely fine, but to smear her by innuendo to associate her with also being racist is going too far.
It is also an example of the straw-man nonsense deployed by right wing extremists all the time; it's disturbing to see the same tactics being deployed by the left or centre on twitter and then more disturbing to see it being upvoted and even justified here.
Seeing someone deny the womanhood of two women who aren’t white and calling that racist only seems like a smear if you aren’t familiar with the long history of associating femininity with whiteness, and more specifically associating black women with masculinity. Black girls and women are consistently viewed as more masculine and less innocent than white girls and women.
Waiting for JKR to say “I’m doing a racism” before calling things she’s said racist essentially means never calling her racist.
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If people could stop centering their entire lives around a mediocre piece of entertainment and letting themselves being spoonfed art in the form of capitalist "Franchises", maybe people like Rowling wouldnt get this much undeserved attention.
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i feel bad for all the people i know who got harry potter tattoos 15 years ago
edit: it's really fucking weird how people are trying to invalidate my criticism of the bigoted bigot who loves bigotry, j.k. rowling
Harry Potter tattoos have a higher regret rate than gender affirming surgeries.
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It's a great example of why you shouldn't get a tattoo of something that is intellectual property. It's way too easy for that shit to get associated with bigots/hatred/etc down the line.
Another example: I'd love to eventually get a Star Trek tattoo. I can see the suits at CBS eventually burning the IP to the ground, sure. But they probably wouldn't turn anything Star Trek related into a hate symbol. But what happens if it turns out that neo-nazis start using ferengi imagery to spread anti-semetic hate? You can't guarantee your favorite skin art keeps the ethical values or meaning over the entirety of your life.
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The fuck is this dense comment? Rowling being a cunt doesn’t change anything for Harry Potter. Jesus fucking Christ.
Why? I have a HP tattoo and don't regret it. The fandom has gone past the author at this point. She's a hateful removed but that doesn't mean that we can't still love the world and characters she created. We've made it our own.
Except she still gets royalties and uses those to donate to political organizations, so you know
Why not sail the high seas?
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At my last job, the only who was in his 50s or older and was nice to the trans employee had HP tattoos. He saw JK being a terf (we taught him the word) as her (referring to Rowling) own problem to solve.
hateful removed
They instance they're on automatically censors certain words the admins consider slurs. "Bitch" is one of them.
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Post name reminds me of one of the very first Onion News Network videos: Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck
Are we sure JK is a terf? Is it possible it's actually Barty Crouch Jr., posting from her account? Has she been compulsively drinking from a flask in person?
We are sure she is TE. Not sure about the RF.
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Much like my mother, she should have no access to phones or internet after a bottle of wine.
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An entire bottle of gin will unlock some very disgusting traits in most people.
It will only unlock the disgusting contents of my stomach.
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It really feels like people hate on her way more than they should. Can someone explain to me where it's all coming from? I read some of her trans statements and honestly they weren't that bad. If feels too me like on a scale of 1 to 10, the hate should be at a 3, but it always seems to be at an 8 or 9. WTF?
This sarcasm? She literally call us "The Penised" and claims we're stealing all the womanhood.
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We lost nice people during covid, others like op prevail. It's not fair.
Wishing someone dead, in public is always a dick move. Don't you think, op?
(unless we're talking about Josef Mengele and those kind of proven assholes. Then it's allright.)
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