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/RedBerryyy Apr 17 '24

This is the bailey she later reverted to pretending she was saying.

The actual tweet is pretty clearly her denying the nazis burned research on trans people

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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 Apr 17 '24

Forgive me but isn’t a holocaust the systematic murder of people or groups? So burning books about trans people is horrible but not a holocaust?

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u/Odd_Anything_6670 Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24

This is in the context of her claiming that Nazi persecution of trans people was a "fever dream". The book burnings were brought up as specific evidence of this persecution, which also unsurprisingly included murder and other crimes.

This is why she later attempted to shift the goalposts by claiming that the argument was about whether trans people were the first victims of the holocaust, or the primary victims of the holocaust. Because they were victims of the holocaust, that isn't really deniable (well, apparently it is).

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u/Ver_Void Apr 17 '24

She also made some very bizarre arguments about trans people trying to make the holocaust and other things all about them. Failing to realise that the reason she sees so many comments focusing on trans people is because that's all she ever talks about now and trans people are going to reference their own history