EDIT: She’s a holocaust denier, which I didn’t know. Guess she is a nazi after all!
Here’s the link (from Political views of J. K. Rowling):
She is very much a TERF, an acephobe, kinda racist (just look at her character names), and therefore quite a horrible person;
but, while it wouldn’t surprise me if she was, she is not a nazi.She is however a holocaust denier
Source?
I have seen zero credible sources for this specific claim of Holocaust denial. The closest I’ve found is that she argued that trans people weren’t the first group targeted by the Nazis. (Not denying that they were targeted. Just disputing that they were first.) That’s not the same as “Holocaust denial.”
I already know she’s a bad person who uses her celebrity to spread hate and spends her time and money trying to further oppress some of the most marginalized people in the world. We can dislike her for those very real reasons without spreading false stories about her.
She didn’t argue that trans people weren’t the first group targeted, she argured that trans people weren’t targeted at all/it doesn’t matter that they were (however you want to read into the tweet linked in the article).
https://forward.com/culture/592580/j-k-rowling-holocaust-denial-trans/
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Ah, I didn’t know that. Thanks!
I don’t see anything about holocaust denial in your link. There’s a 2018 article discussing parallels between her work and the real holocaust but it doesn’t claim she’s a denier. I don’t really care for Rowling but I also don’t like misinformation. If there is some evidence can you please share it?
She thinks that transgender people were not persecuted during the Holocaust.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/jk-rowling-denies-transgender-persecution-during-the-holocaust/
Imagine being so blinded by bigotry that you think that transgender people, of all the fucking groups, were the one group that nazis were totally cool with.
I think she just doesn’t believe trans identity is a real thing and that it wasn’t yet “invented” in the 1930s.
Not knowing what the fuck they’re talking about is kind of a staple of transphobes.In her defense for some reason there just aren’t many records of us in 1940s Germany /s
In case anyone’s unaware, that famous photo of nazis burning books, yeah those are records of trans people among other texts on queer sexology
For the uninitiated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_SexualwissenschaftIt’s an interesting read.
Thanks for the source although I think that’s quite specific. It seems mostly about her being ignorant and doubling down on her war against trans people rather than a blanket denial of the holocaust which the term “holocaust denier” conjures
Your article frames it this way:
While Rowling has not denied the Holocaust itself happened, she is accused of engaging in a form of Holocaust denial for questioning the persecution of trans people under the Nazi regime, a fact which has been well documented
I’m not denying she’s a cunt but I think it’s important to be precise with these sorts of allegations.
Would you say someone that says the holocaust did happen but only 1000 Jews were killed is not a holocaust denier?
What I am saying is that based on this twitter spat I would not call her a holocaust denier. You are free to make your own judgment.
I think that’s a pretty accurate assessment. I personally haven’t seen any evidence that she’s anti-Semitic and that is the center of Holocaust denialism. I don’t think her claims are driven by conspiracy theories. She just has a million Yes Men who encourage her anti-trans positions and it just feels right to her
See @Estiar@sh.itjust.works’s comment
Acephobe??? I was unaware. Good to know I’m hated double.
Honestly, calling everyone a nazi just feeds into the right’s narrative of “oh they call everyone a nazi, ignore them”.
I’m not defending anyone, especially not J.K. Rowling, but this isn’t helping our cause, quite the contrary actually.
It’s a bit like Kleenex and velcro. They lose there trademark the more people that get groups with Naziism. Unfortunately no one is protecting the nazi brand.
Oh that’s how they found nazism! I spent 60 seconds searching for nazism in the page but i didn’t find it so i just stopped
I get the joke, but You can get from anything to Hitler 4 clicks. Every article has a country > history > WW2 > Hitler.
Nah, that’s irrelevant. OP didn’t get to Naziism via some broad category like that, they got there directly through JKR
But not 3 clicks.
Anything (Jay Z song) > Jay Z > Kanye West > Nazism
Lmao I thought you were guessing/joking until I checked
Anything (The Damned album) → Denmark → Nazism is even faster due to Danish Studio
Haha awesome
You got me. Although I’m not sure if this counts as an article.
Wow, I didn’t know about either, Wikipedia speedruns or JKR’s Holocaust denialism. Thanks, OP.
I wasn’t aware other countries played 5 clicks to Hitler as well.
Harry Potter → Voldemort would be a lot faster tbh
Oh now do Morrissey
This is a dope game
Easy mode.
