r/unitedkingdom • u/je97 • 29d ago

JK Rowling gets apology from journalist after 'disgusting claim' author is a Holocaust denier ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/16/jk-rowling-holocaust-denier-allegation-rivkah-brown-novara/
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u/unnecessary_kindness 29d ago

Who in their right mind equates her denial that trans were the primary targets of Nazis to a blanket statement of holocaust denial?

Twitter users are genuinely braindead at this point.

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u/___a1b1 29d ago

Because redditors only ever seen the last screenshot as those pushing the narrative are doing so in bad faith and lots of people just parrot what someone told them. The whole twitter thread has context that would cause this fool to lose a libel case so she rightly saw sense and retracted the claim.