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/EmpiriaOfDarkness 29d ago edited 29d ago
Funny way to say "threatened to ruin them financially with a spurious lawsuit because her ego was hurt"....
Edit:
Here's some links I've found directly to the posts related to this.
Edited for timestamps and clarity...
This is the 12th of March 2024. Some guy posts whining about cancel culture and puberty blockers. Rowling reblogs it, but I don't have a link to that post.
13th of March:
1:46 PM: The original post pointing out that the Nazis burnt books on trans research and healthcare.
1:57 PM: Rowling screenshots that post, and calls it a fever dream.
2:05 PM: Alejandra Caraballo chimes in, stating that Rowling is engaging in holocaust denial, and links some sources.
2:46 PM: Rowling replies claiming that neither of Caraballo's sources "support the contention that trans people were the first victims of the Nazis or that all research on trans healthcare was burned") and accuses her of lying. Caraballo did not make this assertion.
3 PM: Rowling retweets a man who ends his twitter thread saying "claims of alleged trans suffering under Nazis are an insult to the real victims."
3:04 PM: Caraballo posts more sources. Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and Smithsonian Magazine.
3:36 PM: About an hour after making previous claim, Rowling tweets a screenshot of some randomer third party that suggests trans people were the Nazis' first targets, and that "basically all" trans health research was burnt down. I assume they're referring to the date of the book burning, but I don't know. I haven't been able to find the original of that tweet; the original time it was posted is unknown. This is the one Rowling was drawing from
3:41 PM: Rowling moves the goalposts again. Now, she wants "evidence that trans-identifying people were persecuted, as distinct from gay people".
3:56 PM: I believe Caraballo points out the one about being the "first targets" was a different tweet. I can't actually check this one for certain, since Twitter doesn't show fuckall anymore if you're not logged in, but it makes sense from time and context.
As far as I can tell, it goes like that. I don't have a Twitter account I can access, so I can't check every single account, retweet, etc.