2d ago

JK Rowling is far more like Elon Musk.

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Also it’s not just a trans thing.
JK is incredibly ableist and regularly mocks disabled people. For example one of her latest books is basically painting all chronically ill people as malingerers.
- It's in her HP books. The editor just tampered it down, but you can still see it now that we have a pattern. It's why I hate the people who say, "hate the artist, but love the art" bullshit. The art is bad as well and I'm proud I bailed on that series half way though.
  
  I like the comparison of Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings that points out Harry Potter was a very special, perhaps ethnically special boy, who deserved his powers because he was naturally good, while Frodo Baggins was a dude who got saddled with an absurd level of responsibility, which he never could have handled without a long list of friends and randos who found it amusing to help him.
  
  If it was just Harry, it would just be an over used clique, but ethnic or birth traits kept coming up. Hagrid is naturally angry. Voldemort is evil because he was a rape baby. House Elves are natural ~~slaves~~servants. The Weasley family will always be poor(even when Harry should be paying rent or at least buying them a new car).
  
  Voldemort is evil because he was a rape baby.
  As a sorta half blood rape baby, this has always driven me mad. I am not evil because my conception was.
  
  well that is more Harry Potter information than I previously had, but I'll just move on and pretend to be dumber than I am, which is already pretty bad. when I was kid I gathered an embarassing amount of knowledge on Stephen King novels. I didn't really expect him to be one of the good guys in 2025, but there he is.
  
  I gave up on HP half way through, but the topic kept coming up so when I saw what looked like a good review everything on yt, I put it on in the back ground.
  Oh, right. The Irish character kept blowing things up.
  
  well I just get more and more impressed with Rowling the more I learn
- And one of her more recent blow-ups was against asexual people.

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