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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2020-09-07 07:55 pm

CN JKR, Nazis (also how am I only hearing this part two months later)

Jul 8, [twitter.com profile] jk_rowling quote-tweeted someone who was distancing themself from JKR on the basis of JKR being transmisic

[twitter.com profile] bethanyshondark, whose bio point blank says she's a neo-Nazi, replied "You are the hero we needed."

[twitter.com profile] jk_rowling replied "You are the comfort I needed".



I thought it would be possible to hold on to the good bits of Harry Potter canon and sift out the parts rooted in JKR's transmisia and queermisia and antisemitism and

I think I was wrong.



ETA: apparently the reason I did not previously hear about this is because the other participant in this twitter thread is a Jewish TERF, not a Nazi (see [personal profile] seekingferret and [personal profile] jadelennox below)
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[personal profile] polyfrazzlemented 2020-09-08 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
I was a fan. I still have some fondness for the story. I'm not trying to cast aspersions on you or anyone else for liking it.
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[personal profile] polyfrazzlemented 2020-09-08 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
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