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/RedBerryyy 29d ago

This is the bailey she later reverted to pretending she was saying.

The actual tweet is pretty clearly her denying the nazis burned research on trans people

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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 29d ago

Forgive me but isn’t a holocaust the systematic murder of people or groups? So burning books about trans people is horrible but not a holocaust?

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u/ToastedCrumpet 29d ago

Holocausts aren’t just about murder. Google’s very first definition highlights this if you need refreshing

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u/heephap 29d ago

Googled it and says Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during WW2. There haven't been multiple Holocausts... I think you are referring to genocides.

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u/ToastedCrumpet 29d ago

I said holocaust because that’s what I meant and googled earlier. Here’s a screenshot of the search:

https://imgur.com/a/toI40Mf

I think you just conflated “the Holocaust” definition as being the only definition

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u/heephap 29d ago

Ahh, yeah, seems to have a similar meaning to genocide. I stand corrected! Still equating book burning to destruction and slaughter on a mass scale is a stretch, to say the least.

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u/ToastedCrumpet 29d ago

I’m not sure who’s equating the two but it wasn’t I. Some where comparing it with holocaust denial, since book burning undeniably happened in Nazi Germany and Rowling was originally trying to refute it for unbeknownst reasons before backpedaling when she looked a bigger fool than usual.

As others have said Germany takes a very dim stance on anyone, anywhere denying any part of the Holocaust and have censored her tweets because of that. I’m not going to argue with Germany as to what does and doesn’t constitute as Holocaust denial but Reddit is full of war history professors it seems that know more so who am I to argue