It wasn't just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now?

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It wasn't just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now? - Lemmy.World

The most famous forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism tend to focus on Jews, casting doubt, for example, on how many were exterminated in the camps. But denying the impact the Nazis had on the other groups they targeted, including queer and trans people, disabled people and Romani people, is still Holocaust denial. Maybe someone should tell J.K. Rowling.

She knows she is doing it and doesnt care.

Like every conservative, they just want queer people dead, unless its their own children.

She’s not a conservative, she’s a liberal (in the political science sense of the word, not the USian synonym for leftist).

It’s not 100% clear where Rowling’s transphobia comes from. She certainly fits into the group of transphobic cis women who have been abused by cis men and concluded that all men are evil, including the ones that want to be women.

But there’s also a dynamic which I think you can see with Graham Linehan and Dave Chappelle as well. Born into comfortable middle-class families, well-educated, never really thought about their bog-standard liberalism. Became extremely successful, became accustomed to near universal adoration, made a thougtless transphobic comment/skit, received criticism and reacted with absolute fury at the idea they could possibly be prejudiced about anyone. Because they’re liberals, you see.

All three just keep digging that hole deeper rather than face up to the idea that maybe they got something wrong. Linehan’s career is over (as is his marriage), Dave Chappelle is hanging on by a thread and flirting with the right, and Rowling doesn’t give a shit because she’s a billionaire and does not have to give a shit about anything at all.

Maybe she just has her own views and your tribalistic mind can’t comprehend that?
And her views are fucking hateful and stupid.

Not really. They’re pretty rational.

You’re just getting upset because she doesn’t see people the way they want to be seen. Heads up buddy, that’s how the real world works. Adults learn to get over it while children throw tantrums.

Adults with empathy do their best to make the world better for the people around them instead of just telling everyone to deal with it.
Children do what others tell them to even if they disagree with it.