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Fuck Rowling. You matter 🏳️⚧️
Wow, the PDF was scrubbed thoroughly from the net. archive.is doesn’t have it (just a screenshot of the first page), archive.org has removed it …
Has anyone managed to find the original PDF elsewhere?
the document was named
“Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf”
EDIT: Found a copy elsewhere. https://wingsoverscotland.com/Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf
I haven’t read it yet and thus have no opinions on it. But I object to Orwellian memory-holing, so f*ck censorship.
More info:
Around the same time, Sex Matters, one of the organisations identified in the report, announced publicly that it had challenged Amnesty’s publication and suggested that, had the report remained online, it would have brought defamation proceedings. Amnesty has not said whether its review is connected to that correspondence.
Thanks for the PDF, looks like it’s my RPi seedbox’s time to shine!
EDIT: Here’s the magnet link for anyone interested :3, it’s not like UK lawsuits have any effect here(unless Italy has a secret treaty with the MI6 or some shit). Anyone can help me seed?
Adding now
Thanks :3
Holy shit. That’s dark.
What a bunch of cowards.
They talk about human rights and post evidently empty shit like “We exist so that a world where everyone can live freely, fairly and with dignity is possible”, but fold like a wet napkin when Rowling threatens legal action.
Good to know that we can’t rely on AMNESTY to protect basic human rights anymore.
Fucking hell, we are absolutely fucked, aren’t we?
When Amnesty reported on Ukraine but stayed silent over what Russia was doing in the special military operation, they already lost a lot of credibility.
A tangible example of where the money people spend on harry potter goes.
Its why I am absoutely disgusted by anyone who spends money on it.
people are still defending her, because they cant let go off the HP franchise.
Which is weird because there are much better books to read. There are even books that don’t start to completely fall apart when you think about them for more than five minutes. There’s yet more books where they’ve done a basic amount of research of how names work in different cultures so that they don’t make mistakes like “Victor Krum, the Bulgarian”.
I think the issue is that a lot of the fan base got into it before the mold got to Rowling. It’s hard to pull away, and easy to look past the issues like that Victor Krum sentence, or having the Irish kid be the one always blowing up, or (insert other item that can reasonably be viewed as a stereotype when you remove your rose colored glasses).
Especially if you were part of the midnight releases for the books or movies (do they even do those anymore?).
Most especially when viewed in the light that most people are detached from this discourse entirely. Old fans likely view the series through their eyes when they were younger.
That being said, I think it’s morally important to not put money into it. If you hold it close to your heart already: there’s no need to buy more HP merch. If you don’t already own the books: use a library or borrow from a friend if you feel the urge to read it. If you don’t like it or want to give people alternatives in the genre: advertise alternatives without mentioning HP at all.
I’m not rationalizing this as acceptable. I’m just taking time to talk about the mindset. It’s similar to the mindset that people have when it comes to other social issues related to our purchase habits, and I think that’s the reason why it’s important to understand.
I unfortunately can’t understand this viewpoint of it. There’s a myriad of other things which people enjoyed as children which they grow out of naturally, lose interest in, dive into something better, or abandon when it comes apparent that people involved were awful. It’s not difficult to pull away from it unless, perhaps, you made it your entire personality which is indicative of much more serious issues.
To understand the viewpoint: think of the products you feel like you justifiably have to buy that support evil corporations that also donate to political orgs that go against rights. A $20 book (or <$70 box set) costs less than the amount of money most people put towards buying Coca-Cola products. And this can be difficult to change when you’re used to certain products, especially if you don’t know about the trouble from their corporations/parent corps/etc.
The banality of evil, yo. Our society has structural problems and people can’t pay attention to all of it.
Let them know (politely) how cowardly they are, why you won’t support them, and why you’ll tell everyone you know not to support them: https://www.amnesty.org/en/about-us/contact/
I understand being upset with AMNESTY, but having people pull support is exactly what JK Rowling’s goal is. This call to action is a house dividing against itself.
No JKs goal was to get Amnesty to pull support for trans people, which she succeeded at.
Now it’s our turn to use our voices and throw our weight at Amnesty to do the right thing.
If Amnesty is incapable or unwilling to care, it must fall.
Amnesty do the right thing
Sorry this made me laugh in Ukrainian
How do you spell lol in Ukrainian?
Лол
it must fall
That seems very radical. Why entirely abolish an organization that generally fights for the greater good, just because it failed once or a few times? What is going to take its place?
Because next time it will be gay people.
Next time it will be Muslims.
Next time it will be Black People.
Next time it will be Women.
Because Fascism does not stop and must not be tolorated.
Ok cool. We’ll do something while you do nothing. 🤝
Have I ever implied that nothing should be done? Of course we need to fight for change. I simply doubt that axing the entire organization is a good solution. That would be like fighting your potential ally.
We’re not axing them, we don’t have that power it’s just rhetoric. We’re pressuring them. They need to know that the general public will NOT stand for billionaire bigots sticking their ugly noses in our affairs. That’s the position we’re in now because THEY caved.
Agreed.
You could also say that Amnesty is doing something, and if you tear it down, then nothing will be done.
Tearing down amnesty international is not doing something lol
I’ve already answered this criticism. You’re too late.
You don’t have the ability to build anything that does anything nearly as useful as amnesty international does for humanity.
Who did the nazis target first?
If a wall has a hole in it, you patch the hole, or build a new wall. Tearing it down before building a new wall would demonstrate a level of recklessness bordering on suicidality.
Most of the people who enabled the Holocaust did so by convincing themselves what they were doing was for the greater good.
The ordinary German police officers who did most of the actual grunt work of rounding people up? Those who didn’t actively support it probably told themselves, “I’m just enforcing the law. I may not agree with it, but I can’t judge the law. And if I don’t follow orders, I’ll lose my job. Then I won’t be able to do any good at all in the community, including arresting actual thieves and killers.”
The university professor that handed a list of Jewish students to the Gestapo? “I don’t support this. I have nothing against Jewish people. But if I don’t do this, I’ll lose my job, and then I won’t be able to help any students at all.”
Sure, the worst crimes of the Holocaust were carried out by true monsters that fully supported it. But the vast majority of the actual work was carried out by people “just following orders.” And I’m sure they told themselves all sorts of stories about how they were picking the least evil or destructive path.
There’s a reason in On Tyranny, the first rule is Don’t Comply in Advance. Authoritarians can accomplish some of their goals through direct state power, but most of their authority is just given to them by cowards not wanting a fight. Look at Trump’s attempts targeting the healthcare of minors. He issued a completely illegal executive order trying to ban minors from receiving trans healthcare. He has absolutely no authority to do so. Those hospitals that have fought back have won easily in court. But a lot of hospital administrators, even those in blue states, are craven cowards. We saw a lot of hospitals in blue states complying with this illegal order rather than put up a fight.
What Amnesty should have done is use this as a fundraising opportunity. Do you have any idea what kind of funding and publicity they could have achieved if they had stood up to the witch? Sure she’s a billionaire, but Amnesty is not some small operation on a ragtag budget. They have 2500 employees and a budget in the hundreds of millions. They have the money to hire lawyers. And they could easily have used the fight as a massive fundraising opportunity. The ads write themselves. “We stand for the rights of even the most vilified people!”
Instead they chose the path of cowardice. They’ve damned themselves.
Thank you for putting it in perspective like this. I agree, this should have been an opportunity. My take was not well considered, my apologies.
Why support an organisation that won’t support us? That’s just pointless. They’ve made their position clear: They don’t care about us enough to stand by us.
What they should have done is take up the fight and start a fundraiser if needed. Instead they decided to be useless cowards and run away.
The idea is to put pressure on them in hopes they’ll do the right thing, and if not (as is most likely), then put your support towards someone who will, instead.
It’s as mercenary as deciding they didn’t want to spend the financial and political capital on a war against child-wizard-nazi-Karen given the way the shit winds are blowing, Randy
They already divided the house by betraying the people they are supposed to speak for in an effort to appease bigots.
Buddy they agreed with her that we’re not people. They’re not in the house anymore.
No, they caved to legal threats. That’s an entirely different thing to agreeing with these anti-rights people. Their opinion is in the documents that got pulled but they’re not strong or brave enough to stand by them.
Or they may really be reviewing them to republish when they’re sure they can legally defend every statement in there.
Abandoning trans rights should be a financial threat to any organisation. Don’t donate to collaborators!
Not having the guts to follow through when attempting to fight for a cause is not collaborating against that cause. Sheesh.
E: What you are teaching Amnesty, and anyone else watching, is that it is better not to try to fight for human rights. Because if you ever have to take a step back, you will be dragged through the mud.
Sorry, I’m not in the business of forgiveness.
I still have some contacts in Amnesty from when I went through sone interview rounds for a position I didn’t end up taking. They all seemed pretty friendly and direct, and like they’d be strongly opposed to this. Kinda tempted to mail them to see whether they have anything to say.
Do it!
Huge nothing burger. Dude replied pretty quick, but it was just standard “isn’t authorised to comment on the issue” stuff. Can’t blame him, I guess. Entirely different department in an entirely different country.
What i dont get is how can she be as rich as she is, with as much inherent admiration, adoration and respect that comes with how she got that rich, and this is how she chooses to spend life?
Fucks sake you could live in Disneyland microdosing LSD while everyone who sees you is absolutely thrilled just to be near you.
With such options she selected hatred.
Why bother?
We can’t know for sure, and I won’t definitively say it or use male pronouns for her. But a lot of her past comments hint that she may actually be a repping trans guy. Hell, some of the broader themes of Harry Potter are trans-coded. It would explain a lot. This seems very personal to her.
And at this point, if she really is a repping trans guy, could she even come out and transition? If she did, it would be a very lonely experience. It’s not like she would be welcome in the trans community. You can’t do that much harm to a group, even while secretly a member of that group, and expect to be accepted by them. And she would in turn lose all her connections among the TERF crowd.
It’s not the first time I’ve heard that idea. I recall a comment once in which it was claimed that JKR said that if she were a teenager in the present time, she would probably have transitioned. Unfortunately I could not find any source for that claim, but given just how insane she’s been on the matter, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was something going on there. Same for Linehan, honestly.
Personally I would forgive her, IF that turned out to be true, AND she made a public apology for everything awful she ever said, AND threw her financial weight behind actually fighting for trans rights, AND opened a school or something specifically for disadvantaged trans kids, and kept doing such things to the point that it actually made a positive impact, then I would say she had redeemed herself.
But I’m not holding my breath for even one picosecond, thinking that it would actually happen.
What I remember is an interview where she said “I should have been born a boy” or something to that extent.
It is all too easy to see how you can fall into the TERF mindset as a transmasc in denial because it probably makes about as little sense to her why anyone would want to be a woman as it makes to me why anyone would want to be a man, therefore anyone who wants to transition to a woman must have ulterior motives. But it really shouldn’t be a high ask to have a modicum of empathy to realize other people just feel different lol
Okay so I’ve read a LOT of analysis of that line, and done a fair amount Myself. There are two camps on it: One group says Robert is a repressed trans guy. The other group says Joanne is pretending to lean trans, in order to present herself as an insider and speak from a position of both authority and sympathy, so she can lie to people better.
Personally, I only found out about that interview during the research phase of a blog article I had already decided to write, about how Robert really hates women and views womanhood negatively, so maybe he’s trans. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/does-jk-rowling-want-to-be-a-man-568cb1aa4ca5
I don’t think I can say I’d forgive her, but I’d give her a chance to do more good than harm
That’s fair, I mean there’s so many awful things she’d have to make up for before I even started to feel any sort of forgiveness.
she likely was scorned by a trans person in her life.
Or she’s deeply internalized misogyny and feels oppositional sexism is an internally safer outlet for it.
I think for a lot of people once their needs are met, they’re free to find out what an asshole they really can be.
People working through life often don’t have time for frivolities like boosting a worldwide hate club that tries to take away human rights.
Harry Potter isn’t good enough to continue supporting this person
Even if it was the best series ever written I still wouldn’t support She Who Must Not Be Paid.
even most of her characthers alluding to her bigotry. cho chang, basically calling a ching chong to a chinese person, goblin=stereotypical jewish person.
It used to be illegal to do that sort of thing
I had no idea this had happened. And reading about it now I’m mostly just feeling disgust and disappointment.
Rowling herself has always disgusted me since showing her true colours. Fuck, I actually bought her books, back in the days when the Harry potter series was still unfinished. I feel strangely ashamed of spending that money, even though we didn’t then know the nastiness she was hiding. Feels kinda like I gave cash to a homeless person who used it to buy a knife that stabbed someone. My money supported her hate, it’s an ugly feeling.
Disappointment with amnesty. Why couldn’t they stand firm? She’s a fuckin bigot and should absolutely be called out for it. In fact, she’s not just a casual bigot, like one of those people you work with who sometimes comes out with an uncomfortable comment, but when you challenge them they’re maybe kind of willing to say they don’t really mean it, whatever. Rowling is a committed, evangelical bigot. She has a platform and a shit load of money and she uses it to spread hate.
If humanity manages to become properly civilised one day, her name will be remembered as one of the people who held us back.
She’s exactly the type of person Amnesty should stand firm against. And instead they bend over. Probably on the advice of their lawyers, whatever, it’s not good enough. If they ended up in court over this, how many of us would have donated towards their legal costs? Me, for one, and hopefully a whole lot of us.
I’m not gay, I’m not trans, so I’ve never had to deal with that discrimination, the aggression, the angry incomprehension. Never had to feel alone and hated by the world. Fuck sake, these people have enough shit to deal with already - to want to add to that, to encourage the mob to do the same, that’s a special level of nasty. I don’t want to use the word lightly, but I think it’s not unusual to say evil.
And Amnesty, who should be standing firm for people who need someone to lean on, they buckle. They back away and they fuckin apologise.
So yeah, disgust and disappointment.
Sorry, that turned into a rant.
TL;DR : disgust and disappointment!
she came out anti-trans around the same time musk did. hers was more surprising since she writes HP books, you generally dont think someone is that bat shit crazy, supporting feminist/women rights was positive.
Don’t be hard on yourself for buying the books a long time ago. Not only was her public persona very different, but you were also much younger
Don’t spare the UK legal system its share of blame.
Amnesty International UK has to play by the same rules as UK trans advocates on Twitter or simple reporters, who were rather notoriously compelled to apologies for accurate describing Rowling as a “TERF” even though that term is already biased in her favor.
She’s such a disgusting hateful excuse for a human being. The world would be better off for us all if she dropped dead tomorrow
I think an appropriate epithet for her is simply, “The Witch.”
You mean Robert Galbraith, the holocaust denier?
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People understand what a jihad is, but most also understand that the average muslim is more likey to die at the hands of a jihadist than a jew, christian, buddhist or hindu is… but Israel is being run by a man with a world of legal peril over his head amd as long as he’s got an active war and the support of the white nationalists in his own country, he can stay in power. Sound familiar? Peas in a pod and all that.
Yup. Jihadists killing everybody.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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@Quokka Holy fuck I hadn’t heard this.
I can’t believe Amnesty folded. A new stage of the apocalypse unlocked.
once they retracted it legitimizes her claims, and sets up precedence for future, when they go on the offense again.
crazy how hatsune miku wrote the entirety of the harry potter series, such an icon.
also, fuck Rowling. May she lose all relevance sooner rather than later.
Hatsune Miku is a racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, fatphobic, anti-intellectual chud. Her Harry Potter books defend slavery, belittle women and reading, and have no political or cultural competency or creativity. Hatsune Miku is a deeply problematic and harmful writer.
I especially hated the scene Hatsune Miku wrote, in which it’s Christmas at Grimmauld Place, so Harry and the gang dress up the severed slave heads in little Santa hats and beards.
When do the books belittle women and reading?
Rachel Rostad wrote a great poem about the racism and misogyny embedded in Cho Chang’s writing.
To JK Rowling, from Cho Chang.
When you put me in your books, millions of Asian girls across America rejoiced! Finally, a potential Halloween costume that wasn’t a geisha or Mulan! What’s not to love about me? I’m everyone’s favorite character! I totally get to fight tons of Death Eaters and have a great sense of humor and am full of complex emotions!
Oh wait. That’s the version of Harry Potter where I’m not fucking worthless.
First of all, you put me in Ravenclaw. Of course the only Asian at Hogwarts would be in the nerdy house. Too bad there wasn’t a house that specialized in computers and math and karate, huh?
I know, you thought you were being tolerant. Between me, Dean, and the Indian twins, Hogwarts has like… five brown people? It doesn’t matter we’re all minor characters. Nah, you’re not racist! Just like how you’re not homophobic, because Dumbledore’s totally gay! Of course it’s never said in the books, but man. Hasn’t society come so far? Now gays don’t just have to be closeted in real life—they can even be closeted fictionally!
Ms. Rowling. Let’s talk about my name. Cho. Chang. Cho and Chang are both last names. They are both Korean last names. I am supposed to be Chinese. Me being named “Cho Chang” is like a Frenchman being named “Garcia Sanchez.”
So thank you. Thank you for giving me no heritage. Thank you for giving me a name as generic as a ninja costume. As chopstick hair ornaments.
Ms. Rowling, I know you’re just the latest participant in a long tradition of turning Asian women into a tragic fetish. Madame Butterfly. Japanese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Miss Saigon. Vietnamese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Memoirs Of A Geisha. Lucy Liu in leather. Schoolgirl porn.
So let me cry over boys more than I speak. Let me fulfill your diversity quota. Just one more brown girl mourning her white hero.
No wonder Harry Potter’s got yellow fever. We giggle behind small hands and “no speak Engrish.” What else could a man see in me? What else could I be but what you made me? Subordinate. Submissive. Subplot.
Go ahead. Tell me I’m overreacting. Ignore the fact that your books have sold 400 million copies worldwide. I am plastered across movie screens, a bestselling caricature.
Last summer, I met a boy who spoke like rain against windows. He had his father’s blue eyes. He’d press his wrist against mine and say he was too pale. That my skin was so much more beautiful. To him, I was Pacific sunset, almond milk, a porcelain cup.
When he left me, I told myself I should have seen it coming. I wasn’t sure I was sad but I cried anyway. Girls who look like me are supposed to cry over boys who look like him. I’d seen all the movies and read all the books. We were just following the plot.
I also wanna recommend Zero Woolfe’s video “You weren’t supposed to like Hermione”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycaSiLp1J_U&t=14, whose arguments I would struggle to do justice to if I tried to summarise.
Buuuut, I will add My own piece of evidence in support of Woolfe’s point:
The annoying girl who likes reading is so convinced of her own self-righteousness, and so socially oblivious, she tries to become a woke activist. She creates a laughable anti-slavery organisation called SPEW, and tries to tell the slaves that she knows their needs better than them, going so far as to try and trick them into becoming free. What a stuck up bitch! This is what happens when women read too many books!
she finally had to courage to come out anti-trans when she reached a billion, and at the same time musk went anti-trans.
What a fucking waste.
Never wanted to look into it, now I had to scroll her Twitter to see that response of her is genuine, now I am mentally unstable.
Disclaimer: it might be the Twitter experience all in all, I usually do not set foot in that realm.
Thanks JK Rowling.
OF COURSE all the press support she gets is from the Telegraph, aka the Daily Telegraph, paper owned by Axel Springer Konzern, which gives its best award to Peter fucking Thiel.
That same week she posted an upskirt picture of a woman in retaliation for her refusing to debate
