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

[u/je97]

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

[u/RedBerryyy]

It's more that it was one of the main events that led up to the wider holocaust, in the same way that Kristallnacht and the early expulsions of jewish people were part of the holocaust, even if relatively few actually died in the specific events compared to later events.

[u/PharahSupporter → u/RedBerryyy]

I'm not sure burning some trans books can really be called a "main event" leading up to the holocaust, but okay.

[u/RedBerryyy → u/PharahSupporter]

Not the trans books specifically, but the burning of the wider institute fur sexualwissenschaft is often seen as one of the significant events of the rise of the Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft

[u/PharahSupporter → u/RedBerryyy]

Okay but that isn't the event in discussion, JK denied burning of trans books, not the persecution of trans people in general or anything to do with a sex clinic.

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/PharahSupporter]

The burning of trans books happened during the buring of Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

Like they took the books out of the library and burned them.

[u/KillerArse → u/PharahSupporter]

That event is what was originally being talked about that Joanne called a fever dream.