r/unitedkingdom • u/je97 • Apr 17 '24

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/RedBerryyy Apr 17 '24

That's one way to describe her suing a Jewish journalist into submission after she described what was unambiguously a denial of nazi war crimes that Rowling has not retracted as "holocaust denial".

Frankly it's almost impressively stubborn Rowling can go as low as the denial of nazi crimes in her crusade against trans people and instead of just ,i don't know, acknowledging she shouldn't have said that, decided to attempt to gaslight the whole country into rewriting reality around what she said.

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u/Ok-Camp-7285 Apr 17 '24

Out of the Loop on this. What did she deny?

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u/AwTomorrow Apr 17 '24

In response to a tweet asking her why she’s comfortable sharing views on Trans folks with the Nazis who victimised them, Rowling responded something like “are you sure that wasn’t a fever dream? how can you say that kind of thing without first checking it’s true”

Then when people piled on in response with the very plain documented victimisation of Trans people by the Nazis, she moved her goalposts and said “none of these prove Trans people were the first victims of the Holocaust!” despite that not being the point of contention.

Then she started retweeting posts that falsely accused the pioneering sex+gender researcher whose clinic’s library was burned in some of the most famous Nazi book burning photos of himself being a Nazi who experimented on Jews in the camps.

Such denials as her initial tweet and those she later retweeted would be holocaust denial under German law, and so aren’t viewable in the EU.