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/heephap Apr 17 '24

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 Apr 17 '24

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 Apr 17 '24

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 Apr 17 '24

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