(stolen joke) A transphobe, a racist and a antisemite walk into a bar. The bartender says: “hey arent you the woman who wrote those harry potter books?”
okay okay, i know jk rowling is horribly anti-semetic but i’d like to know how she is racist? i dont doubt it given the other info i have about her, but i’d like an example of her racism if possible
well there’s the (only) asian character whose name is literally “Cho Chang”
or the one black person (of two!) named “Kingsly Shacklebolt”
oh and just for fun i’m pretty sure the one coded-irish character is constantly causing explosions? but we’re getting into p fuzzy recall territory tbh, and i’m sure there’s plenty more.
He’s not just coded Irish, his name is literally Seamus Finnegan, and yeah he’s most associated with blowing shit up
Patty O’Carbomb-ass name
jesus i forgot that was his fucking name
technically there’s four Black folk in the Harry Potter books, but Rowling goes out of her way to not mention Lee Jordan despite Lee being a quidditch shoutcaster and allegedly the best friend of the Weasley twins, or Angelina Johnson, despite Angelina being Gryffindor’s Chaser (god what an awful name for a sports role in this day and age) (and didn’t she date one of the Weasley twins, too?) and she made Blaise Zabini a straight-up Death Eater-aligned Slytherin, so… Yeah, I’m gonna drill a couple more screws into the ‘racist’ sign she’s wearing
I’d say there’s five but I don’t have the spoons to have the “Hermione is a black girl, there’s no such thing as a tea cracker who needs a perm put in her hair for a school dance” argument with burger cracker liberals
i mean as you can see i’m in no position to be arguing the finer points of these books with anyone! but also i am curious about the perm stuff. is it just bc it makes
look like poodles?Most perms are ridiculously destructive even to coarse Afrikan hair-- a white girl doing that to herself, ESPECIALLY with any kind of regularity, is a recipe for straight-up baldness by the time she’s thirty. Acid stripped, dry, and split-ended if she’s lucky.
My mom got perms every month or so for decades, so I’m not sure that’s true. Maybe they use different chemicals for natural hair?
My mom actually had grey hair as a kid, so she coloured her hair basically all her life, and same as you, didn’t really affect her long term
Are they canonically black or is it a movie thing?
Canon was always really cagey about how she was supposed to look, but she was described with coarse hair and described as needing a perm for it in two non-consecutive years; that’s all I need to perceive her as Black-- especially in a setting where I know the author can’t help but mistreat Black folk.
Doesn’t he also try to make alcohol by magic?
i seriously hope not but i’d be 0% surprised
If I remember rightly, there’s a scene of him trying to turn a drink into some kind of alcohol and it exploding in his face. Cannot remember whether or not it was whiskey, but knowing Jowling…
god i hate being able to read
she’s like a massive unionist and even included a bit about how the IRA were just muggles who were jealous of wizards and so made bombs so they could match them in a pottermore post iirc (also iirc the ministry of magic doesnt recognise the sovereinty of the republic of ireland so there’s just a single ministry of magic for both countries)
Least cucked woman in Scotland, they should take her money and give it to that old woman who wanted to stake the corpse of Margaret Thatcher
Read the harry Potter books… Well don’t. But we got cho chang as the only Asian for example. What a name eh
I can picture the sticky note shortlist that name came from, and I’m receiving a psychic premonition that she chose Cho Chang after writing and then crossing out something else.
Read the harry Potter books… Well don’t.
Just listen to Shrieking Shack instead lol
Here’s one example:
The way she handled Native Americans in the Harry Potter universe was racist and got a lot of complaints at the time. Here’s an article about it.
horribly anti-semetic but i’d like to know how she is racist
european antisemitism is racist. it’s theoretically possible to exclusively have a problem with religious practitioners of judaism, but that’s not something that actually happens anymore. the goblins in her books are not shown to be practitioners of a bad cult, but bearers of undesirable racial traits.
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Sure thing, Rowling. Why don’t you show us these supposed facts that contradict the statistics that show trans women are far more likely to be the victims of sexual assault than the perpetrators?
It’s fascinating how Rowling projects her grievances with the patriarchy onto trans women.
all transpeople are r#pists is certainly a take to have, i hope she drowns in her own blood
It’s becoming more common. We’re getting extremely close to a place where trans people are predators by definition to these people. It’s really scary
I have noticed that they are expanding how they define predator even further to include anyone who advocates for acceptance of trans kids. It usually goes something like (cw: transphobia):
spoiler
“Being trans is inherently sexual. So anyone who tells a kid they might not be the gender they were assigned at birth means they are trying to sexualize children, thus a sexual predator.”
Meanwhile, worrying about kids’ genitals and sexual attractions is perfectly acceptable by these cretins.
“It’s not sexualizing children to constantly worry about their genitals or who they want to be intimate with! Don’t even get me started on which bathroom they want to use!”
I hope that she contracts a chronic illness so painful she begs for euthanasia, and stays alive forever, unable to move but in excruciating pain. I don’t think any death is too kind for this filth pile that people mistake for a conscious, compassionate being.
I didn’t follow how unhinged she had become about it. Wow.
What can be the next move after this? Claiming she was r*ped by a transwoman?
She sucks shit but that first sentence has a lot of juice and could be repurposed
“Good for you, Bill Maher. Some imperial apologists prefer to advocate for racist colonialism from behind an anime cartoon, but you’re doing it under your own name. Zionists need brave guys like you.”
The final movie in the “fantastic beasts” series will have the protagonists actively trying to cause the holocaust and support Hitler because the villain in the movie is a camp trans character who opposes him. This will be demanded by Rowling herself.
Just a reminder for anyone who didn’t know, the main villain’s goal in those movies was to prevent WW2 and the holocaust
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Spoilers not that anyone should give a fuck
These movies take place shortly after the end of WW1. The second movie ends with Grindelwald, the big bad, holding an evil rally trying to convince the other wizards that they should reveal themselves and take over humanity, and he shows a vision of the future that will come if they don’t; Another war. He shows visions of tanks, of the Blitz, of Nazi victims in concentration camps, and finally a nuclear explosion, and says “we can prevent this.”
This could work if it took place in the modern day, or even if it took place after WW2 and he showed visions of nuclear Armageddon. But the villain of the movie showed visions of the second world war which we know does in fact happen and says “We should prevent this” and the audience is supposed to go “No that’s bad actually.” And yes, preventing WW2 is just a fig leaf for his actual goal of world domination, but ultimately it still means you wrote a story where the bad guy is the one going “we should stop WW2”
The scene in question. CW: Johnny Depp
Rowling has a reccurring hangup with changing the past. In the late sequel screenplay thing that stars Harry’s kid, the plot is that they want to go back in time to save Cedric Diggory’s life, and succeed - but somehow this makes Cedric himself become a Death Eater and causes the bad guys to win the wizard war, so they end up having to make sure Cedric dies as originally planned.
It’s “we live in the best possible reality”.
It’s even more nonsensical, the character that attempted to prevent the holocaust (Grindelwald) is also implied to be roughly equivalent to wizard Hitler.
One of the side characters confronts some students who are vandalizing something with Grindelwald’s insignia. It’s basically framed as a swastika until we learn its actually okay because its an ancient wizard symbol called the deathly hallows and Rowling starts putting them all over her merch.
Grindelwald was also defeated in 1945, which is definitely intentional considering how much of a hack Rowling is.
Also, the supporting character who gets roped into the anti-fascist fascism is a Jewish woman who we’re meant to consider weak for not wanting the Holocaust to happen.
I spent way too much of my childhood on this shit.
This is very true, forgot to specify that part. God what a stupid fucking series.
It’s such a bizarre thing to shoehorn into a children’s series, especially this clumsily.
Not really, Wizard Hitler is just the most evil thing Jowling can imagine - that’s why Voldemort was the same. I would not be surprised if the BBEG of Hogwarts Legacy was also Wizard Hitler.
This sounds like a good excuse to link this article: Fascistic Beasts and Why You Shouldn’t Fight Them
Oh man if they thought the second movie was a mess I want to know what they thought of the third one because holy shit that was the worst and most confusing film I’ve ever seen
This isn’t the first time Rowling has fallen into a trap like this. As many have noticed, her goblins are big-nosed greedy bankers. (By the way, just contemplate the sheer brass neck of her accusing Corbyn and the Labour left of antisemitism when she repackaged and sold the hoary antisemitic stereotypes of old to a generation of kids…) But that aside, fewer people have noticed that the goblins are also communistic in their inability to comprehend ‘human’ notions such as private property. They believe – horror of horrors! – that a person owns a thing because they made it. They reject the idea that Gryffindor ‘owns’ the sword they made just because he paid for it. They reject as intuitively wrong the entire concept of the commodity. So they are not just an antisemitic stereotype; they’re specifically a Nazi antisemitic stereotype of the Jews as both capitalists and communists.
Good article, thanks for sharing
The only good way to be a wizard is to be a status quo magic cop. They’re like shittier Jedi.
because the villain in the movie is a camp trans character who opposes him
She’ll be trans witch Stalin and she’ll be cool as shit
Rowling is such a Slytherin 👍👍👍👍👍
I mean, she literally does act like Umbridge, a character she actively hates and wrote to be hated.
As my favorite non-Harry-Potter series once wisely said, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” 👍👍👍👍👍
This comment made me throw up a little
RIP
Not my art to be clear! Friend of mine made this for our big pixelbase project on everyonedraw. But I thought Id show it off because it looks real nice and Trevor was a real one.
my salute is to trevor and now also the artist, whomever they might be
Oh this is a good emote.
I blame millenials buying her crap for giving her such an outsized voice. Launch her into the fucking sun.
and everyone who bought her books, for good measure.
Help I was a child and it was my mom’s money 😭
Sorry but there are no exceptions 😢🫡
Guess I’m being :wesley-snipes-crying: 'd
We DO have it. thank you.
@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net fix this one its all squwwwiished
Hey don’t look at me I was a goosebumps/Animorphs kid.
Never read one of her books or saw any of the movies, thankfully. Her stuff always just seemed like dollar store Tolkien to me, plus I guess I was slightly older than the intended age range.
My most regretted purchase ever, by the way, was a Kid Rock CD and I am deeply ashamed of it to this day.
When I was like 13 I bought a T-Shirt off of Sonic sprite comic artist “Psyguy” (well, had my mom buy it, but yaknow). Years later he turned out to be one of the internet’s biggest sex pests.
I also bought a ProJared tshirt at one point. His case is more complex I guess but its still a bad track record lol.
Daaamn, Psyguy. I thought I dreamed that
i’m gen z but i also read her books growing up. i’m really glad i started reevaluating them before she went fully mask off, or i’d have probably been really hurt by it, given that she’s about a hairs breadth from calling for my torture and execution on the national news
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Yeah heres likely to be some collateral damage there.
Begin the launch sequence!
In (some of) our defence the first few books appeared to be setting up for some good criticisms - they weren’t resolved in the books they first appeared in, but they were highlighted in such a way it seemed to be drawing attention to real life injustices through the lens of a magical society.
But then they weren’t resolved at all. The Weasley’s poverty, the literal slavery, the systemic legal problems like a fucking soul eating prison - they wasn’t going to be a real commentary, it was just showing off the features of the setting. And by that time we’d wasted our money on 4 or 5 books.
Launch anyone who bought the movies into the sun though.
No more half measures, Walter.
Everyone. Sun. No exceptions.
Launch anyone
who bought the moviesinto the sun
Why the fuck is one of the richest, most famous people in the world taking the time to say unhinged shit to random people on Twitter with like 200 followers? Does she just sit around all day looking for obscure people to put on blast with her deranged bullshit?
Because she is unhinged and wants trans people dead. She is singularly obsessed with it.
Why the fuck is one of the richest, most famous people in the world taking the time to say unhinged shit to random people on Twitter
Not the only one.
I at least find
's psychology pretty transparent: he’s desperate for the world at large to approve of him and think he’s cool and funny. Rowling just seems to spend all her time looking for random folks saying positive things about trans people so she can personally attack them. It seems like it would be a really soul-corrosive hobby.
Money poisoning
you’d think she’d have some rich people hobbies to do with her rich friends.
Imagine thinking rich people, but especially Joanne has any ‘friends’
i think some of the ultra rich relate to eachother and hang out, but i also think she and musk are particularly unlikeable even among their monstrous peers.
Some are socially well adjusted (comparatively speaking at least) and get into sailing or something.
Right? Get into electroplating diamonds with gold or some other weird expensive hobby and leave people alone. Fuck.
“Build hospitals all over the world, spend your money” - that italian guy on the friedland show
Does she just sit around all day looking for obscure people to put on blast with her deranged bullshit?
Wouldn’t be surprised tbh, her mind is fucking broken, I wouldn’t be surprised she alienated most of her actual IRL friends with her deranged behavior.
Wasn’t she all in with that lady that was quoted in that BBC article that had a fucking manifesto to kill trans people and a history of doing SA to other women?
She has repeated sided with and supported men and women who assault women but also are transphobes.
yeah. actually she’s all in with a bunch of people who have stated all trans people should be killed, as well as several sexual abusers and admitted rapists. i only know of the one person who did both and was quoted in a bbc article, but it would not surprise me if there were more
also i like your avatar
Just saying, there are countless, countless confirmed incidents of r@pe and general sexual abuse at those gay/trans conversion “therapy” camps by the counselors (the victims of which are almost all minors who are forced by their piece of shit parents to attend as these camps’ primary demographic), which is still happening to this day. Far more than the number of confirmed LGBTQ+ predators. Call it whataboutism if you want, but it seems to me like it’s your crowd that has a predator problem, Rowling.
hope she’s killed and soon
better that she has a very embarrassing accident. we don’t need to hand the worst people in the world a martyr.
you know i know where her boat that shes never been on is. just fantasizing.
Be a real shame if a hive of killer bees was in her room and the door got jammed
