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I wonder how her kid she wrote the books for feels about her these days. Sadly, I'm sure since he ultimately grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth he thinks his mother loves him unconditionally and is sticking up for what she believes in, just like she taught him to do. What's more sad though is the thought of him having friends his age—our age—my age who have woken up to the klaxon sirens of her hatred and criticize the mother who taught him all this. Again. I'm sure the reality is that the wealth he's inheriting keeps him insulated from making friends who are harmed by all this, or are even aware of this harm, but I can imagine a world where he feels conflicted about that his mother has provided everything someone could want, and also knowing she's horrible. I can't imagine what it would be like to be in that situation.
Now for speculation time. I anticipate he will never speak out one way or the other
Maybe he's a she now and that's why Rowling became so toxic. Just like with Musk.
I'm pretty sure she's currently facing up to 45,000 euros in fines and up to 5 years in jail over the whole Imane Khelif situation, if the French legislature decides that she was a party responsible for cyber bullying (and Musk as well).
Will she ever see the inside of a cell, even if they decide to go after her? I highly doubt it, and when she said this, she definitely wasn't in any danger of being arrested.
But we can always dream.
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Oh no, this poor rich woman! How will she ever afford a fine that is .00007% of her net worth?!
She lives in the UK where you absolutely can go to prison for expressing hateful views.
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Expressions of hatred toward someone on account of that person's colour, race, sex, disability, nationality (including citizenship), ethnic or national origin, religion, or sexual orientation, but not transgender status is forbidden.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_United_Kingdom
fucking lol
"Nobody is going to jail you for your dumbass opinions. I wish they would, because that would be hilarious to me." I wish I could say that in her face.
Can we stop giving this bitch the attention she so desperately craves?
Can people just stop fanatically Following rich idiots?
What prison is she going to go to? There is no asshole prison for "persecuted" B celebs.
This stuff is like Peterson crying he gets cancelled while he has 50 million views.
This post has made me realise my oversight. I had not added "Rowling" to my Lemmy keyword filter.
Good shout. Going right below Elon and Trump
Same here. On it.
Alleluja, you have seen the light
She is not in the threat of jail though, just there's a possibility of losing some money.
Feels like she is trying to play a victim and implying that freedom of speech is under attack and people are jailed for opinions, when in reality it is about hurting someone.
Her tweet was in response to an anti-hate law (Hate Crime and Public Order Act) this year, where you could spend up to 7 years in prison for example, communicating in a way "that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive." So, if charged in Scotland, she could go to prison.
Though she's rich, so probably not.
The Harry Potter series was such a prominent part of my childhood. I remember my teacher reading the books to the class as they came out. I loved every moment and eagerly looked forward to each book release. It is truly a disappointment that someone I held in such high regard has decided that making other people feel bad is how they wish to be remembered.
JK Rowling created a magical world that has evolved and surpassed her in every way.
It's especially frustrating because of how much it's written to accept people who are different (as long as they aren't fat, or a woman who speaks up, or standing against slavery and exploitation).
The fatphobia is real, but I've never bought the bit about the books being against Hermione's anti-slavery stance (I assume that's what you mean by a woman who speaks up as well). My interpretation was that Hermione was always assumed to be in the right because slavery is almost universally condemned in modern society. But she's standing up against a system where even one of her two closest friends has been indoctrinated into it. Standing up to "others" is hard, but standing up to peer pressure is harder.
That said, the depiction of chattel slavery is of course inaccurate. Slave revolts were common, whereas the house elves want to be subservient to humans. I guess that could be marked up to house elves being a distinct species that may have been manipulated to be subservient, but that's never explained.
The art and the artist should always be separated. Just because someone makes something amazing doesn't mean they, too, are amazing.
The artist and the art are intrinsically intertwined. Lovecraft's work (to use a less immediate example) has all of his fears, including racism, built into the bones of the stories. Skillet is fundamentally culty Christian types, once you understand that their more normal music takes on a creepy meaning.
It's possible to pull unintentional meaning from a work, we do it all the time, but that doesn't mean the original intent should be disregarded. That idea is practically anti-art imo.
I had never seen "separate the art from the artist" so much until Joanne opened her stupid fucking mouth. Its funny to me that dropping brands for supporting bad things was so easy for people until it was Harry Potter at stake. As someone that never got into it in the first place, it kinda pissed me off.
I just don’t understand why someone would spend this much time trying to make a small group of people miserable. Doesn’t she have better things to do with her time?
JK Rowling somehow turned into one of those weird ladies on Nextdoor who has nothing better to do.
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It may just be easier to get rich if you're fucked in the head already. Risk avoidance? That's the sign of a smart person, but most ways for a poor to become a rich are far more likely to fail than succeed. Empathy? Healthy, but that'd stop you from stepping on people on the way up.
Especially as a writer, idk about other countries but the USA's literacy levels are abysmal (half the population reads at a 10 year old's level or worse!), so an idiot would have the largest audience.
I just don’t understand why someone would spend this much time trying to make a small group of people miserable
She explains why here. Quite long, not very logical or convincing.
The black mold is truly rotting her brain to the point of no return.
JK, trans people in the UK are closer to being sent to prison that you, a bigoted shitlib billionaire.
Claiming things does not make them true.
Yeah, everyone knows you have to at least say it in a funny way while waving a stick around.
Spoken like a privileged ass person who knows she's not going to jail and that the punishment will be monetary at worst. Can't stand people like this who act hard about jail like it's no big deal.
So she supports laws that would make transphobic views a criminal offense? Didn't take her for such a progressive thinker.
I wish her all the happiness she deserves
Not just transphobic: Intersex-phobic and libelous
It is not clear if she is intersex btw, the whole situation was a lot of people on both sides jumping to conclusions.
you didn't want her to be happy before she was a transphobe?
She's always been a "new labour" type. There were certainly people who disliked her before she went full TERF.
Maybe just didn't care one way or another. It's just a joke, though.
I personally assumed she already was, and I don't actively wish happiness on people who already experience it. But that's just me
Honestly I wouldn't mind spending time in billionaire jail either.
I don't understand her disconnect here. Does she not understand that if they're sending her to prison then she's in the wrong?
Bruh Average twitter person tweet I guess
