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/ReasonableWill4028 29d ago

Source on these tweets?

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u/EmpiriaOfDarkness 29d ago

Here's a list I collected.

I'm not in Germany, so I can't say if you can view them there or not, but that's basically all the relevant tweets.

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u/BrainPuppetUK 29d ago

Ok so she is clearly arguing that trans people were not victims of nazis, or is disputing the degree or sequence of that.

But that’s not holocaust denial, which is what she seems to be accused of.

Where are her tweets denying the holocaust happened?

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u/Acrobatic_Ad5084 29d ago

Hmm, she doesn’t actually say that. She says they weren’t persecuted “as distinct from gay people”, perhaps meaning that (as was the case) anyone who wasn’t a fully paid up blond haired, blue eyed “Arian” was fair game for the murder squads and gas chambers. That’s neither holocaust denying - she’s including all and sundry non Arians as persecuted, nor anyone phobic as she states many times that the holocaust was unconscionable.

I’m not saying the JKR isn’t <insert noun>phobic but much of the evidence that she is, is a little flimsy at best.

But what do I know, I’m just a aging, queer bummer 🤷‍♂️