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[–] zorflieg 21 points 7 months ago

I only just noticed people calling her Joanne because she identifies as JK. Nice one.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

She has single handedly ruined my favourite childhood books.

[–] Cheems 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Those poor worms

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[–] Psythik 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The phrase "fancy myself" is the whitest-sounding shit I've ever heard.

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[–] Son_of_dad 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For some reason they're rebooting the HP series into a show. I thought maybe it was a way to update some bits and distance themselves from Rowling, then they hired her as producer. Wtf is even the point?? If anything she's gonna make it more racist

[–] Wogi 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What's weird is prior to the meltdown over trans people she was obnoxiously progressive. Constantly retconning characters via tweets to make them more inclusive, when it has absolutely nothing to do with the story being told.

I have no problem at all with Dumpledore being gay and Hermione being black. I think including marginalized people in story telling is fantastic.

But that's absolutely not how these characters were written. She just kinda said that's the way it was and left it at that. Because the characters weren't originally written with that in mind it added no context, and brought nothing to light about these characters that night have been missed. That's not inclusivity. It's pandering. And she just would not stop doing it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Sometimes people are assigned progressive by social expectations and start playing that role without really thinking about it. She tried to write an apolitical generic kids book, and everybody's white, fat people are evil, and bankers are big nosed goblins. Then other people read it and started pointing things out, but she couldn't detect any of this herself so when she tried to be inclusive she just added Ching Chong the asian and a minstrel slave race. Need to make someone black, I said Hermione has ugly frizzy hair so I guess it's her. Need a gay, make it the asexual grandpa so it's not gross. Eventually something comes along that cracks their assumption that they must be progressive and they come out as right wing on Twitter.

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[–] RBWells 12 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Sometimes I think we need a Freaky Friday sort of thing to happen. Can she just wake up as a black trans woman tomorrow, just for a few days? Walk in their shoes?

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