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Also: There was a time that she really seemed to be "one of the good ones." She donated tons of money! She said the right things about inclusivity! This is a heel turn that would make Vince McMahon blush.

Even as someone who's part of the demographic she hates/wants to annihilate, and a historian to boot, is how jarring it is at times to see just how fucked up she is. Like no matter what someone believes in, this entire situation reads like a really shitty horror comedy. And yet its real.

Hurting people is a bad choice and karma is right around her corner!

I was trying to explain her ridiculous dispute with the boxer from the summer olympics and was met with blank stares and that wasn’t even exclusively online.

she's genuinely become one of the most vile individuals. not just on the macro/political level, which is horrific -- imagine trying to have tea with her

She is a disgusting, hateful individual causing harm to so many people for fun, who doesn’t deserve our attention or dollars.

yup. brain totally pickled. could have not said a word and not bothered anyone and lived a life of content, but she went too far down a rabbit hole she could not have gotten out of

Notable choice of words. She was pro amnesty when they were pro human rights but is now anti because they are "anti free speech" Aka she doesn't see trans people as human beings. Their ability to exist is outweighed by her ability to tell them they don't.

People also really don't want to acknowledge the vitriol that she included in the HP series from the start.

All she had to do was keep her views to herself and donate quietly to causes and she could have coasted the rest of her life as a beloved children's author who had infinity billion dollars. Honestly, one boon to Social Media is a lot of these scumbags are out and proud.

Every time I see a little kid carrying around a bag from the NYC Harry Potter store I wonder if the parents are total chodes or have just chosen to remain willfully ignorant.

I've had a crappy enough time wrestling with my favorite book being written by Orson Scott Card, but he doesnt hold a candle to the shit Rowling has been up to. She, sadly, makes it too hard to ignore with the most cursory of glances.

It's also a lesson in how you should never, ever try to appease these people. Even though Amnesty caved, she's still talking about it in terms suggesting she still wants to see them completely destroyed.

I’m tired of explaining it, boss 😭 over and over again.

Yeah, I've been trying to get through to a lot of people about that, I'm not "cancelling someone because I disagree with her opinions," I'm explaining that every time you go see the Harry Potter play or buy a pair of Hufflepuff socks, you are personally directly funding a hate campaign

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They won't care either.

That woman has used nostalgia as a poison.

I often argue with myself about the morality of certain spending decisions (I still have an active Game Pass sub, for example), but Rowling made it very easy to drop Harry Potter entirely

I've tried to explain this to my mom and she just refuses to understand.

The number of my kid’s 5th grade friends who did Harry Potter-themed stuff this summer (out-of-state camps; theater productions; flying to the UK to go to the theme park…) was crazy-making.

She's also filing a lawsuit against an Irish cultural festival that was founded in West Belfast by Gerry Adams. Like, "an Englishwoman is suing Gerry Adams for being too inclusive" should be a punchline. Instead, we're likely to see "Rowling less popular than IRA in London" as a real headline.

Also, like, she won! She got every major party in the UK to adopt her views. Trans women are now essentially banned from public accommodations that match their gender in the entire country. She also wants to be praised for it, I guess?

She's following the Trump doctrine. They make excellent bedfellows.

I still remember when she was lauded as a champion of education, women’s rights, and gay rights. She literally got a standing ovation the time she claimed that she always assumed that Dumbledore was gay. WTF happened? Brain worms? Or was she always horrible and everything else was performative?

If anyone out there happens to see this and can help: I think it was yesterday but definitely in the past few days, someone posted a non-exhaustive list of alternatives to HP and I should have saved it. Could anyone share it here for me, and do the thing that I should have done myself??

Wait did something else happen or is she STILL bitching about them calling out and then immediately walking back calling out her bigoted center.

I respect most people who want to stay offline as much as possible, but increasingly we can only explain pathologies from being extremely online, and it happens to affect a huge number of the most powerful people on earth.

i was just trying to explain this to my wife. like its not that she hates trans people, it's that her entire life and career has become devoted to their eradication, but since most of it happens online she gets to maintain an air of plausible deniability.

and she’s succeeding! trans peoples’ lives and rights are significantly worse in the UK, the U.S., and other parts of the world because of her and her money. if she was dead and people who only cared about wealth were in charge of her estate, the world would be a measurably better place.

“what do you mean she credibly threatened to bankrupt amnesty international uk, that sounds made up” I fucking wish

Edinburgh can tell you she always was shitty and selfish.

It still lives rent free in my head that even musk, of all people, got tired of her one-note he-man trans haters club.

I'm very much online, I know that she is evil because people I trust have said so, but I don't think I've come across articles or blogs that succinctly explain what a POS she is without assuming prior knowledge. This sort of journalism must exist though?