(stolen joke) A transphobe, a racist and a antisemite walk into a bar. The bartender says: “hey arent you the woman who wrote those harry potter books?”
okay okay, i know jk rowling is horribly anti-semetic but i’d like to know how she is racist? i dont doubt it given the other info i have about her, but i’d like an example of her racism if possible
well there’s the (only) asian character whose name is literally “Cho Chang”
or the one black person (of two!) named “Kingsly Shacklebolt”
oh and just for fun i’m pretty sure the one coded-irish character is constantly causing explosions? but we’re getting into p fuzzy recall territory tbh, and i’m sure there’s plenty more.
technically there’s four Black folk in the Harry Potter books, but Rowling goes out of her way to not mention Lee Jordan despite Lee being a quidditch shoutcaster and allegedly the best friend of the Weasley twins, or Angelina Johnson, despite Angelina being Gryffindor’s Chaser (god what an awful name for a sports role in this day and age) (and didn’t she date one of the Weasley twins, too?) and she made Blaise Zabini a straight-up Death Eater-aligned Slytherin, so… Yeah, I’m gonna drill a couple more screws into the ‘racist’ sign she’s wearing
I’d say there’s five but I don’t have the spoons to have the “Hermione is a black girl, there’s no such thing as a tea cracker who needs a perm put in her hair for a school dance” argument with burger cracker liberals
i mean as you can see i’m in no position to be arguing the finer points of these books with anyone! but also i am curious about the perm stuff. is it just bc it makes look like poodles?
Most perms are ridiculously destructive even to coarse Afrikan hair-- a white girl doing that to herself, ESPECIALLY with any kind of regularity, is a recipe for straight-up baldness by the time she’s thirty. Acid stripped, dry, and split-ended if she’s lucky.
My mom got perms every month or so for decades, so I’m not sure that’s true. Maybe they use different chemicals for natural hair?
My mom actually had grey hair as a kid, so she coloured her hair basically all her life, and same as you, didn’t really affect her long term
Are they canonically black or is it a movie thing?
Canon was always really cagey about how she was supposed to look, but she was described with coarse hair and described as needing a perm for it in two non-consecutive years; that’s all I need to perceive her as Black-- especially in a setting where I know the author can’t help but mistreat Black folk.
she’s like a massive unionist and even included a bit about how the IRA were just muggles who were jealous of wizards and so made bombs so they could match them in a pottermore post iirc (also iirc the ministry of magic doesnt recognise the sovereinty of the republic of ireland so there’s just a single ministry of magic for both countries)
Least cucked woman in Scotland, they should take her money and give it to that old woman who wanted to stake the corpse of Margaret Thatcher
Doesn’t he also try to make alcohol by magic?
i seriously hope not but i’d be 0% surprised
If I remember rightly, there’s a scene of him trying to turn a drink into some kind of alcohol and it exploding in his face. Cannot remember whether or not it was whiskey, but knowing Jowling…
god i hate being able to read
He’s not just coded Irish, his name is literally Seamus Finnegan, and yeah he’s most associated with blowing shit up
jesus i forgot that was his fucking name
Patty O’Carbomb-ass name
Read the harry Potter books… Well don’t. But we got cho chang as the only Asian for example. What a name eh
Read the harry Potter books… Well don’t.
Just listen to Shrieking Shack instead lol
I wish a very dedicated cosplayer would practice IRL hexes on Rowling.
This is off-topic to the substance of the argument. I was talking to a friend about personality disorders a while ago and realized that there’s a common argument/rebuttal pattern applied to any group accused of being a danger: trans people, racial minorities, people with mental health problems, etc. The rebuttal sucks:
A: X group commits lots of [type] crimes
B: Even if that were true, X group is more likely to be a victim than a perpetrator of [type] crime
B (alt): Even if that were true, X group is actually more likely than general population to be a victim of [type] crimeNote that cis men are at once (a) more likely to commit violent crime than general population (b) more likely to be victims of violent crime than general population (b) more likely to be victims of violent crime than they are to be perpetrators of violent crime. That’s a farcical MRA talking point. These stats aren’t telling us anything meaningful.
Instead of letting the opponent’s claim stand like Coleman is doing, I think it is more convincing to either dispute it or offer a good explanation that neutralizes the claim. For instance, assuming there even is some kind of stat that trans women are disproportionate perpetrators:
- Perhaps that stat includes laws that criminalize existing as a trans person, like bathroom bullshit or whatever Rowling is proposing.
- Perhaps there are only a tiny number of trans predators (multiplicative problem: few predators, few trans people) so the sample size is too small to extrapolate reliable rates. Other methodological problems. Sex Crimes Georg got into the dataset and he isn’t trans. Etc etc
- Perhaps trans women are poorer than general population (because they’re discriminated against, healthcare is expensive, etc). That would mean they’re more likely to be involved in any criminal conduct on either side - to put it differently, more highly-policed and likely to be arrested or officially victimized for acts that rich people get a pass for. So stat A is meaningless unless wealth-adjusted.
- Perhaps trans women commit fewer sex crimes than men but genuinely more than cis women, because they were raised in rape culture and some internalized those lessons (“you can ignore consent” learned) independent of gender identity (“because you’re a man” discarded). This is not a good argument for trans women, but it does at least disprove the ridiculous bathroom predator arguments, which predict trans women to commit sex crimes vastly more often than cis men even though we just established they don’t. So it could be appropriate against that argument, though there are better counterarguments that cede less ground.
There’s a lot of stories you could tell. Just saying a different statistic is talking past each other and not convincing to the (entirely theoretical tbh) sharp-eyed reader who is somehow undecided on whether trans people should be allowed to live. If you’re gonna ignore such an argument to offer a more convincing argument of your own, I think moving out of the realm of stats altogether is better.
hope she’s killed and soon
better that she has a very embarrassing accident. we don’t need to hand the worst people in the world a martyr.
Why the fuck is one of the richest, most famous people in the world taking the time to say unhinged shit to random people on Twitter with like 200 followers? Does she just sit around all day looking for obscure people to put on blast with her deranged bullshit?
you’d think she’d have some rich people hobbies to do with her rich friends.
Imagine thinking rich people, but especially Joanne has any ‘friends’
all transpeople are r#pists is certainly a take to have, i hope she drowns in her own blood
I hope that she contracts a chronic illness so painful she begs for euthanasia, and stays alive forever, unable to move but in excruciating pain. I don’t think any death is too kind for this filth pile that people mistake for a conscious, compassionate being.
I’m surprised she hasn’t been publicly jumped yet
When you’re as rich as her you get “the help” to do shit like shopping and stuff, so she most likely never leaves her home unless she’s going to some event that has security guarding her.
Then I’m surprised a whole squadron of black bloc hasn’t run up in her house yet.
you’d have to lay siege, she lives in a literal fucking castle
that’s what makes it fair
lmao i love it here. "uhhh you know the enemy has like, a fortress and armed guards, right?"
“hell yeah that’s why it’s fun!”
RIP
Not my art to be clear! Friend of mine made this for our big pixelbase project on everyonedraw. But I thought Id show it off because it looks real nice and Trevor was a real one.
Rowling is such a Slytherin 👍👍👍👍👍
I mean, she literally does act like Umbridge, a character she actively hates and wrote to be hated.
As my favorite non-Harry-Potter series once wisely said, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” 👍👍👍👍👍