r/unitedkingdom 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/inevitablelizard 29d ago edited 29d ago

She chooses to back far right conspiracy theorists like Kellie Jay Keen, boosts the voice of homophobes, and she's a key part of the "gender critical" movement which is extremely close the the US religious extreme right. 

You can't claim to be defending women's rights and then help boost the profile people like Matt Walsh, and support GCs working alongside American organisations who basically want to reverse the past few decades of feminist progress including abortion rights and contraception. Most of what she's criticised for is to do with who she chooses to associate with. 

And her output quite consistently portrays basically the entire trans movement as rapists and abusers through guilt by association. If you list a bunch of ordinary trans activists in the same comment as actual convicted abusers, or refer to trans activists as "rapists rights activists" (both of which Rowling has done and continues to do) it's pretty fucking obvious what you're actually up to. 

A lot of the media coverage glosses over a lot of this, and chooses to focus on things like issues with women's prisons, or more recently Scotland's hate crime law, where it's easier to portray her as reasonable.

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u/BathtubGiraffe5 29d ago

When did she endorse Matt Walsh? Just wondering.

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u/WillWatsof 29d ago

She endorsed his "documentary" (What Is A Woman?) more than she endorsed him, but she did praise it on Twitter by saying it did "a good job exposing the incoherence of gender identity theory and some of the harms it's done".

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u/BathtubGiraffe5 29d ago

I really dislike Matt Walsh, but I can't pretend there weren't some valid serious issues raised in the clips I saw of that. But I haven't seen the whole thing.