Originally published via The Daily Bell:
“We don’t negotiate with terrorists.”
-JK Rowling
===
“The boyz in the hood are always hard
Come talking that trash,
We’ll pull ya card.”
In addition to being a pretty decent writer (I read all the Harry Potter books and enjoyed them, particularly the last ones with the darker, more intricate plot lines, I’m not ashamed to admit), JK Rowling is a based free speech warrior.
So far, she has demonstrated considerable backbone, standing strong against the left’s cancel culture machine – even after online leftists dragged her reputation and career through the mud.
Rowling’s crime? She tweeted politically improper facts, stood by them, and refused to back down in the face of, arguably, the biggest cancellation pogrom in internet history.
The original based tweet (how it all started)
All that sounds super reasonable. The last claim, though – “It isn’t hate to speak the truth” – as Rowling knew before she wrote it, isn’t universally subscribed to. If everyone instinctively understood that telling the truth isn’t hate-speech, she wouldn’t have had to offer it as a tagline caveat to her truthful statement in an attempt to appease her rabid trans-obsessed millennial fanbase.
Needless to say, her disclaimer didn’t fend off the hyenas.
Via Vogue:
“[Rowling’s] incessant approach to this endless, exhausting transphobic discourse… flies in the face of basic civil rights. We watch her using her huge platform to push dangerous rhetoric. This kind of speech erodes trans mental health and puts trans people in physical danger off-line. It’s nasty to watch.”
Speech is literal violence!
<image redacted>
Will Smith hate-speeches Chris Rock for badmouthing his lady. It might, actually, constitute a double-hate-speech crime, on account of the victim being a sacred person of color (SPOC) — unless SPOCs are automatically exempt from liability for hate-speech on account of their sanctity? The hate-speech laws get dicey when two SPOCs are involved!
That way, if speech is accepted as interpersonal violence, and interpersonal violence is illegal, unapproved speech is illegal.
Let’s diagram that logic train:
Unapproved speech is violence ——> violence is illegal ——> unapproved speech is illegal!
What a magical First Amendment workaround!
Liberal, and loving!
——————
Ladies don’t give birth, transphobe; birthing persons give birth!
<image redacted>
Stunning and brave!
The only solution for the Rowling problem, therefore, is banishment to the darkest corner of Earth – after, of course, a public humiliation ritual. That savage psychopath Rowling, writing children’s stories, directing their moral development, filling them with silly notions of chromosomal realities, must be silenced.
We don’t need to beat a dead horse here. You can google “JK Rowling transphobia” and come up with an all-you-can-read treasure trove of think-pieces calling for her head.
Here’s just one more to set the mood:
<image redacted>
“Yet Rowling’s fall from literary darlinghood reveals more than a disappointing turn to the dark arts of bigotry. This world-builder has long refused to relinquish control of the world she built. Among her generation, she’s hardly alone.
Harry Potter is all about morality, but it’s about a sort of morality children can understand. Conveniently for the grown-ups who send their children on the Hogwarts Express when they reach age 11 (or perhaps earlier, for advanced readers), this is also a sort of morality on which Muggles of all ages can likely agree: Good is good; evil is evil.
This simplicity has also made it easy for children and grown-ups alike to turn the Harry Potter books into a frame for analysis beyond the fictional realm…
Older people may want to declare their history books complete. They would do better to hand over their quills and give younger people the chance to add chapters of their own, while making space for those who’ve so far been excluded from the pages.”
TL;DR: “pack it in and shut your white transphobe hate-speech hole, bigot!”
Millennial Harry Potter fans, you see, grew up to develop their own magical power: virulent, self-entitled narcissism. They don’t even need a wand to exercise it.
And through it all, Rowling held the line. Instead of buckling, she doubled-down – a move her agents surely unanimously discouraged:
No hostage-like apology videos. No cuckoldry.
That’s not going to move any Harry Potter books in suburban DC or Brooklyn!
Since her excommunication from loving and tolerant liberal polite society, Rowling has:
- Been excluded from public events around the series she created herself. Via LGBTQ Nation:
“An annual book festival taking place this week in New Zealand has announced that events will not include a Harry Potter quiz. Organizers chose on their own to cancel the event to keep from promoting the franchise’s controversial author J.K. Rowling because of her anti-trans statements.”
- Lost God-knows-how-much revenue from reneged business deals and book burnings
- Felt the full weight of the corporate media’s boot on her neck.
- Got her social media notification feed absolutely stampeded by trans activists who pretend to be rebels while pushing the mainstream lie about biology. They really ran hog wild; she even got blamed for starting a war in Eurasia!
- Been accused of denying human rights by the vapid bovine Hollywood actors who played her characters and repaid her by publicly pillorying her for stating facts
Rowling ‘Knew Perfectly Well’ What Would Happen When She Stood Up for Biological Reality, Ventured Into the Storm Anyway
Via JK Rowlling.com:
“I knew perfectly well what was going to happen when I supported Maya. I must have been on my fourth or fifth cancellation by then. I expected the threats of violence, to be told I was literally killing trans people with my hate, to be called cunt and bitch and, of course, for my books to be burned, although one particularly abusive man told me he’d composted them.”
Does JK Rowling Hate ‘Transgender’ Kids? Or Does She Just Have no Tolerance For BS?
I don’t agree with JK Rowling on a lot but I can confirm two biographical facts for sure: a.) she writes a legitimate fantasy novel and b.) she’s got balls of steel.
<image redacted>
This is in stark contrast to the alleged defenders of freedom on the right.
The best electoral options the GOP has to offer voters is Lindsey Graham (the bottom of the barrel, if you will) and sad, Lyin’ Ted Cruz who does whatever his donors tell him to.
<image redacted>
When Ted’s donors instruct him to go on the Senate floor and call political dissidents “terrorists,” that’s what Ted does. Because he’s a dutiful cuck. The beard doesn’t make up the difference.
Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via his blog, Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.
