let me hear your voice tonight (
alexseanchai) wrote2020-09-07 07:55 pm
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CN JKR, Nazis (also how am I only hearing this part two months later)
Jul 8,
jk_rowling quote-tweeted someone who was distancing themself from JKR on the basis of JKR being transmisic
bethanyshondark, whose bio point blank says she's a neo-Nazi, replied "You are the hero we needed."
jk_rowling replied "You are the comfort I needed".
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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.
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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
seekingferret and
jadelennox below)
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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
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(I mean. Fragments is enough to build fanfic empires, and some people have. But some of us like a bit more canon in our fic than that.)
Rowling has fallen into that pit where she believes everyone critical of her work or her public statements is anti-woman, anti-poor (because nevermind where she is now; she started poor), anti-creativity. And that's not going to change because she's never going to take a break long enough to perceive the arguments from a different perspective.
Other than that... the books themselves are packed with cliche tropes which is why they caught on so well. Mass popularity does not come from groundbreaking, innovative work; it comes from works that resonate with millions of people who agree on nothing but "wouldn't it be awesome if everyone married their high school sweethearts and they stayed married for life."
I don't blame anyone for liking it. I haven't sorted out my own level of "like." But the problematic starts early in the series and just never lets up. The only reason it works at all, is that it's told from a young, unreliable narrator POV--once Rowling speaks up and starts confirming details, that's lost.
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/sighs/ Oh JKR. Why couldn't you just take your money and SHUT UP like a lot of other terrible people.