I loved the Harry Potter books. I've read all of them multiple time, and seen all the movies (made from the books). I identified with Harry Potter & Hermione. I found the books profound, touching, and consoling.
And then J. K. Rowling decided to attack trans people. First she cloaked it in pseudo-rational arguments where she pretended to support trans people but was really worried that supporting trans people might injure women's rights. More recently, she's started allying herself with people on the anti-trans far right, like Matt Walsh.
On Sunday, she "liked" a tweet condemning the massacre this weekend at Club Q in Colorado Springs. So maybe she's not such a transphobe? Don't jump to that conclusion. This is the tweet she liked, from a British group called LGB Alliance. They wrote, "We are horrified by the news of the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, and stand in solidarity with LGB people worldwide against this senseless hatred." Notice that they left out the T - for transgender. The absence of the T is intentional. They oppose trans rights.
Two trans people were killed on Sunday - the bartender Daniel Davis Ashton, a trans man, and Kelly Loving, a trans woman. Just like the LGB Alliance, Rowling doesn't care about the lives or deaths of trans people.
Another vile transphobic account on Twitter that Rowling has "liked" is "Libs of TikTok," run by a woman named Chaya Raichik, who hates LGBT people, especially trans people. She has 1.5 million followers, and her incitement draws hateful mobs on those she attacks (for example, Drag Story telling hours at public libraries). She recently posted this screenshot.
Karen Attiah is an opinion editor at the Washington Post, and a friend of Jamal Khashoggi (who wrote for the Post); when Khashoggi was killed she campaigned against the Saudi government (which had him killed), seeking justice for him. Elon Musk, who is the new chaos agent owner of Twitter, has just allowed Kanye West back onto Twitter (he had been suspended for his antisemitic tweets).
Attiah writes, "Elon Musk is jailbreaking another one of his white supremacist buddies" (she's quoting Kanye's first tweet after being unblocked). The photo on the right is of Kanye West. Chad Spencer responds "2022: Where we call a black man a white supremacist." Attiah then replies: "I said what I said."
What she said is correct. Kanye West and Candace Owens recently both appeared at a Paris fashion show wearing a t-shirt with the slogan "White Lives Matter" on the back. (See this Washington Post article on Owens and Kanye's turn to the racist and antisemitic far right: Candace Owens and Kanye West).
Why on earth did Rowling "like" the screenshot from Chaia Raichik? How did it even come to her notice? Because Raichik is an anti-trans inciter? Does Rowling support Kanye West's antisemitism and support of white supremacism?
J. K. Rowling styles herself a liberal, a feminist, an antiracist, and an enemy of antisemitism. It's all a lie. She supports vicious transphobes like the LGB Alliance and Chaia Raichik, she turns a blind eye to antisemitism and racism.
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