"As a centrist liberal, Rowling is *deadly afraid of change.* Actual, meaningful change." youtu.be/lxUEuOkblws...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWHx...

And it's extremely obvious in the books. Nothing changes at the end. The fascist wizarding world goes back to its status quo self. It wasn't about improving the world. It was about destroying the radical fascist who instead of just discriminating like the "good guys", also started killing people

he goes on about it in detail in the video. Best tangent ever. Also somehow the solution is always #TRAINS!1

She has turned out to be quite the scumbag it seems that's what money does to you turns you into a piece of shit. Glad I'm poor.

I don't know why anybody is still interested in the Nazi world of Harry Potter. It's blatantly about a master race.

I was too old for the books but have pirated all of the movies so I've seen them. And that's about all I have to say about that.

Ah, she's a billionaire now. Awesome. Good for her. She added herself to The List™

The Composting List?

Yes

Horrid person; funding hate.

There's always this awful look on this JKs face. Even though they smile there's this weird underlying coldness to their expression. It's a smile but no feelings behind it at all. I guess that's what happens when you harbor such seething hate for other people who have done you no wrong.

I hate that this bitch destroyed one of my comfort childhood media... I mean, I hate period, but man it sucks I can't look back on my memories of watching the movies with my mom without being reminded of this vile bitch...

Is pig ugly compulsory to be a billionaire?

The article cited by that second article doesn't actually say that she's putting 1.2 billion in the fund. It just says that she's personally funding it and that she's worth 1.2 billion. It's a case of conservative publications citing each other with poorly written articles and not fact checking

This woman needs a fucking hobby.

Unfortunately her hobby is spreading Trans hate.

can't wait for JK Rowling's grave to become the most popular all-gender toilet in the UK

👍🏻😅

Hey Joe where going with that gun in your hand. You are an arse wipe.

was that supposed to be clever? 😭

Thatcher's finally gonna have company

I fucking hate her. She's an evil evil person.

this actually makes me feel a bit sick. anyone who ever fucks with anything hp is beyond dead to me atp

When we talk about billionaires using their wealth to damage society through anti-democratic means. This is exactly the kind of thing we mean.

What a worthless bitch

Her ENTIRE NET WORTH EVERY FIBER OF HER BEING Put into sheer, unbridled, Genocidal, hatred. Once again: If you're still a Harry Potter fan, you are a TERF and maybe even a Fascist. UP BUP BUP!!! No. You are. Stop. Burn your books, films, and other merch. ASAP. Beg for forgiveness I will not give.

I don't know you, friend, but I like the cut of your jib!

Yeah, no. I'm gonna stop you at the "burn books" thing. Get rid of them? Sure. But book burnings are historically more or less exclusively the weapon of the Nazis and theological fascists

Joe Rowling has never done a thing for cis women in his entire life. The Womens' Refuge was set up purely because the excellent existing one was very well run by a trans woman (who didn't actually have anything to do with the women who used the refuge) Rowling just did it to harm trans women.

Like Musk, she could have gone to therapy to work out her personal issues. Instead, she uses her money to destroy the lives of others.

She could’ve used her money to help people instead, and she’s had decades in which to do it. She’s irredeemably evil.

The problem is she thinks she's helping people by doing this. She's a HORRIBLE person.

That's the thing though, I don't think she thinks she's actually helping people, just punishing people she doesn't like. It's the same mentality as in her books where she wrote about disfiguring a child for having cruel parents and being larger.

thissss! this is so important to recognize! she is the perfect, ideal embodiment of her books and people need to be able to see that. it's such a huge element of our whole social landscape right now.

Yes, the way she writes about disabled people in her universe made realize the path she is on was inevitable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYgF...

How am i not surprised she's ablest as well?

Yeah, after reflecting on what she wrote about disabled people in the Potter universe, her path to TERFdom seems inevitable or reached their natural conclusion.

In retrospect those books were some of the nastiest, most elitist, and most bigoted shit I’ve ever seen in the mainstream, and they were targeted at children.

Agreed. She’s an imperialist, worshipping the boarding school system that build the empire at the expense of traumatizing children in an environment designed to crush the week. A few tokens are allowed provided they support the imperial system.

I'll give Joanne one thing, she's a proper cunt.

So, can we start boycotting and protesting all the Potter crap with the same energy we do Tesla? This needs to happen. Return your books, or shred them to make giant paper mache trolls in her likeness, commence the massive public shaming!

People tried with the game...look at how everyone reacted.

Gamers can be absolutely petty pieces of shit. They pulled the same shit with "Atomic Heart" when Mundfish got called on the shady shit they were pulling in 2023.

You don’t understand if they didn’t play the 6/10 game they’d actually die

harry potter fans have such intense stockholm syndrome it makes nintendo fans look downright reasonable

The article is disgusting itself.

Damn harry potter kids didn't get bullied enough. I knew it- I wasn't doing my part.

based

We gotta start shoving HP fans in lockers again

It is a bit of a joke, and funny too. JKR has a great sense of humour and you lot try to paint her into a corner. She's a bit like Zorro then- the TRAs are fuming because they can't lay a hand on her.

1.2B could permanently fix the lives of every trans person in an entire country

It's not enough to boycott the new show, people need to cancel their HBO subscriptions. The Harry Potter crap needs to be radioactive

Besides, people should cancel their HBO subscriptions anyway because of what Zaslav has been doing with it

Well it helps that hbo max keeps taking their good stuff off of their service

Stop buying books published by her published; Little Brown/Hachette

Remember the boycott of the Potter computer game that was going to crush the franchise into oblivion? The game went to no.1 and made zillions. The same will happen with this show. A woman advocating for the protection of sex-based rights in the face of male violence isn’t boycott territory.

There's an HBO show you love and can't live without? Pirate that shit. Don't reward these ghouls

Oh man, I feel like I haven't been a pirate in so long! I don't have an HBO subscription, but maybe there's some good stuff to track down ;)

Jaysus fuck that woman is awful and I hope the black mold finishes the job.

Genuinely think wires are well crossed on this story. I'm certain Rowling has created a fund run by trustees on her behalf, supporting causes falling with broad criteria. I cannot accept she's put her gross financial worth into the fund. You wouldn't & nor would I. It ought to be pinned down.

Also, Berias Place wasn't set up as a shelter that would attract social work attention and professional standards to be met. As I recall, it is a signposting service. beirasplace.org.uk

She may have to write another series of shitty books there in order to attain her goals

Whovever wrote that article is trash too. Some of the wording is vile.

I hope she steps on a cactus.

Praising her for her anti-trans activism as they continue to downplay what she actually says and does.

If it’s all just common sense why do they need to make it sound like she’s getting dogpiled for making a joke

"defend biological women" as an afab, i declare i don't need transphobes' "defense"

Neither i. They DO NOT speak for me!

TERF Empire

I have a feeling that this would be ripe for someone to embezzle

Jebus, talk about putting your money where your mouth is

Guyysss be niceee! She has black mold in her private castle! She has life so harrddd

Its like I said before. Rowling is no feminist. She's the horcrux of Anita Bryant.

If we pie Joanne on TV, will that shut her up for good?

One can only hope

This is really important to understand. People, if you wanna do anything to help trans people, you can start by not buying anything from this moldy monster. The other thing you can do is keep speaking out against her hate. Make her face consequences.

I just don't understand. How are trans people harming her in any way? How can one person be filled with so much blind hatred?

And it's weird 'cause it all started with her liking a tweet by some other transphobe. People called her out, and instead of doing a "Shit, my bad", she instead took it directly personally and has been doubling down with every perceived "attack". She's basically a lady Elon, narcissistically.

She's so egotistical it's honestly kinda cartoonish. She's basically allergic to admitting she's wrong. Which is why she just decided to accept the anti-trans views she inadvertantly supported in that tweet, why she decided to just deny nazi war crimes after people called her out for not knowing...

...about the institute of sexology, and why all her books since she got too big for the publisher to say "no" to clearly don't have a real editor.

Yup! I was just talking to my mom about that kinda rampant egotism and narcissism, to use the word again. In these peoples' minds, purely because they are THEM, they cannot be wrong about anything. They're successful because they're just inherently better, so anyone who disagrees should be purged.

Joe Rowling also hates the rest of LGBT+ people, and black people and also other women. Trans people are just an easy target.

Don't forget us Aces. She can't stand the idea that ppl might actually not want to have adult fun times.

100%

how did the Nazis come to hate of the Jews/Romanis? Its never a question of harm but a question of bloodlust for a people to be cleansed or atleast disappeared from public life.

It's basically the whole idea of "you're too different from me and I don't like that so you shouldn't exist". It's an archaic way of thinking.

I really think these trans haters are afraid they might find something out about themselves.

"independent in her thinking" wat.

That's so much money. This fund is a threat that will remain over our heads for generations. Especially if it's $1.2B in cash or diversified stocks. If it's $1.2B in Harry Potter IP linked stuff that's fine, cos it will sink with her. But if not, this will be a problem forever no matter what we do

It's to directly fund legal cases against trans people and businesses inclusive of us

anybody still supporting harry potter is an active transphobe its really not worth listening to semantics

I guess that there's a small amount of solace in knowing that she's blowing all her money away on an issue she'll inevitably lose

She nuked everything of value. Her reputation. The public’s admiration. Millions and millions of readers. A place in history where the few people who hear about her don’t say ‘ew, yuck.’ She could have been someone who caused a smile for people, a person people would make nice biographies about.

If she’d died in a plane crash in 2010, she’d be one of the most beloved children’s entertainers of all time, right up there with Mr. Rogers.

Yes…she was really revered. Even before her mask dropped people saw issues with her work but these might have been received someone differently—as parochial rather than creepy—if she had not revealed herself to be such a raving bigot.

eh, we'd still be having conversations about how her books are full of bigotry and the harm they do both in representation and in core philosophy, let alone all the blatant plagiarism. it would just be more abstract, academic, less immediately concretely disgusting to support her.

it would be very different though because the main idea of her would not be a frothing at the mouth bigot who seemed thrilled when others suffered--people would see there were these issues but it's different for someone to be sketchy than for someone to be wallowing in conspiracy theories and hate.

i dunno, the books are pretty frothy with bigotry, and certainly delight in suffering

2010 is far too late as her mask first started slipping in 2000 when she called Lolita a "great and tragic love story" during an interview...

Maybe it was my age at the time, but I don’t think most people were paying that close attention. To the best of my knowledge, she was widely respected throughout the aughts.

... right now, in Britain, she's winning in spades

On but for how long? People cant ve mad at less than 1% of the population for ever, hell, some cant even stay mad for 5 years, I was a nazi that could even stand being close to black people, but even i reached a point I hadto take the L and be a funtional adult.

It only needs to be long enough for trans identity to be, as Janice Raymond put it, "morally mandated out of existence", to destroy institutions and communities which support trans life at the threat of legal persecution and mob violence. It won't take much more to be back at a 1950s status.

I am not trying to downplay the queer genocide, but think about it for a couple of minutes, after numerous attempts to erase queer people for over hundreds of years, the lgbt community raised up anyways, and that is because society can be irrationaly mad at a minority for ever.

I think the point is, if it reaches the point in the post your replies too she has won. Yes we will re-emerge for sure. But it won't be in her life time and that's all she cares about.

she dying in the next 10 years or something?

Not that I know of. I think 10 years is an extremely optimistic amount of time to get things back to how they were. I think it will be closer to 40.

I think you highly overestimate the durability of anything she's managed to achieve because of Starmer's uselessness on the matter.

All it takes is one selfless queer person to be in the right place at the right time with the right contraption......

If she had her dna tested and it came back xy, I think her head would explode.

Jk isnt a 90 year old woman, and with Elon musk's political collapse we have solid evidence that just throwing money at nazis doesnt even ensure short term success, there are ways to fight them.

She can maybe do that in one country and even then she has to use the full brunt of her wealth to even attempt it. Pretty much all trans people need to do is refuse to stop existing somewhere on earth and she’ll never win.

i'm aware.

But there's so much suffering she is causing in the process. Nazi Germany is not "not a big deal", because they lost in the end. Those millions stayed dead.

I'm aware. It is a big deal.

Just imagine what someone could do with that amount of money to ACTUALLY HELP WOMEN. That's almost the saddest part about it.

Who keeps buying this woman’s shit

jk rowling has achieved about as much for women's rights as harvey weinstein.

She thinks more about trans people than trans people do. Insane.

Jfc that’s just $1 for every dollar.