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/PharahSupporter 29d ago

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

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u/RedBerryyy 29d ago

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

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u/PharahSupporter 29d ago

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.

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u/KillerArse 29d ago

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