JK Rowling is far more like Elon Musk.

She is further proof that wealth makes people insane and that's why extreme wealth should be VIOLENTLY abolished.
US Billionaires have a literal god complex and are openly trying to destroy society an install an aristocracy, removing ALL civil rights from society.
The wealthy all have to be killed. There is no other reasonable solution.

I won't be able to ever shake off Harry Potter. I don't think of points and views, I just love the idea of another world to go learn magic away from tech and such. I don't read or listen to it for the political points, or whatever other trash she's hidden in there. I read it as a form of escapism.
That said, I absolutely hate Rowling. Its to the point that I'm embarrassed that I still like HP. I hate the stupid shit that pukes out her mouth and I hate that she's taken a whole fanbase down with her. I feel like, for just liking Harry Potter, I'm labeled a patriarchal fascist and that's not my stance at all. I was an innocent kid who fell in love and still uses the books as a safe place to this very day, because I took refuge in them when my mother was at her most abusive (physically and mentally).
When I was very young, I would daydream about being taken away from her to another world to just dive into magic. She would lie to my therapists and tell them I had mental issues and a vivid imagination. That it was all in my head that she abused me. No one believed me when I cried for help. I was tested for autism. I was diagnosed with severe ADHD. There was one time in elementary school where they tried to take my video game magazine from me in class and I was hysterical, screaming that the demons in my head were going to get me. They blamed the magazine material (Mortal Kombat with Baraka on the front cover, I actually still have it). I was treated as though I was crazy.
It was pure, mind-altering hell. She won every court case over my father on the mere fact that she was my mother. She tried to have me put on numerous drugs as a kid, but my father refused and they needed both parent's consent. So that's why I'm irrationally addicted to the books. I'm not so vulnerable as to have my moral views swayed by a fictional story. However, Rowling will never get another cent from me if I can help it. My audiobooks are already pirated as is. I just wish I could be more honest about loving the books without having to tell this story and not be regarded as a piece of shit for liking them.

It's kind of too late now, though. Even if we somehow convinced every person on earth to never buy another Harry Potter anything ever again. She's already got her bag. That won't go away and she'd continue being a horrible person with the power of wealth.
Elon's wealth, on the other hand, exists almost entirely as a fiction of his businesses' value. He is much more susceptible to being taken down with them.

Fascist shitgoblins don't far fall from each other off the same branch.

I never understood all this whinging about J. K. Rowling. I was a big fan of Ender's Game when I was younger, but when Orson Scott Card revealed himself to be an asshole I dropped those books like a bad habit and everyone I knew did the same. There wasn't even really any debate over it. Why are we still wringing our hands about Harry Potter?
- People made Harry Potter their entire personality to the point of their school/house or whatever basically amounting to astrology to them. JK Rowling could shoot their child in front of them and they'd still take any chance to throw money at her they can get.
- Enders Game (and the whole series) is a bit different, as unlike Harry Potter they are actually trying to teach a lesson in empathy and understanding instead of just being a fun magical romp.
  To this day I have literally no idea how the Orson who wrote those books became the man he did. He lives his life by the antithesis of the ideals he preached.
  
  He had a stroke in 2011, and I think having two kids die fucked him up. (Some of his early works had sympathetic portrayals of gay men.)
  I’ve always found it amusing that the guy who wrote Wyrms (fourteen year old girl is destined to be impregnated by a monster, and the book is her weird horny journey to it) and Hart’s Hope (where our hero has to rape a teenage girl in front of an audience in order to claim sovereignty over the kingdom, and she turns into the story’s main villain) got so hung up about sexual purity.
  
  they are actually trying to teach a lesson in empathy
  S.P.E.W. and mugblood rhetoric seem like progressive topics with real world analogues.
  Her transphobic politics seem to be separate from the HP universe.
- Because it became a multimedia franchise and fans still want to keep consuming it despite how much she sucks, so there's a lot of mental gymnastics.

She became the villain from her own book: Voldermort.

best I can do on Rowling is look forward to the inevitable Behind the Bastards coverage

"Influencing" is putting it mildly. Funding organizations with political power is a lot more than that.

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.
- And one of her more recent blow-ups was against asexual people.
- 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.

Also she's anti-ace
- "These people aren't fucking exactly the right amount."
- You would think that of all the non-heteosexual sexualities that asexual people would be the least likely for someone to be prejudice against. I understand that asexuality is a spectrum and any generalization about any large group of people lacks accuracy but, generally I've found aces just want to be left alone. Something I think we can all appreciate every now and again. They're just not interested in romantic and/or sexual relationships. The first decade of my life was like that, I think the first decade of most people's lives are like that. What's so hard to understand about people who just don't feel that attraction?
- Someone should tell Mobius 1.

This is why i call it separating the artisr from the finance, the art is just unavoidable collateral damage.
Perfect example. Hp Lovecraft is dead he gains no money, rallies no crowd, calls no lawmaker. JkR does still, she does gain money and spends it trying to make the world worse for people.
- Lovecraft is problematic for other reasons.
  The problem is that what makes his work good is this pathological fear of the other, that he interlinks with xenophobia and notions of racial purity in his fiction.
  You can't love the art and hate the author with Lovecraft, you have to accept they're both pretty fucked up.
  
  Sure, but people can use Cthulhu in their own books/games/movies and Lovecraft still gains nothing from it.
  
  All true. They are not the same Hp was about as xenophobic as you can get.
  But ido disagree with that last part. I can read and love his stories but never learn anything about him. I can't unlearn about him.
- Lovecraft is also a different case. It should be obvious now that he was a clinical xenophobe and was afraid of most things. He wasn't really looking to put other people down to compensate for his own shortcomings. If Lovecraft was still alive, I wouldn't argue with people boycotting him, but he's not the same as JK.
- Yeah and Lovecraft came to see his racism was wrong before the end of his short life. Rowling so far has only clamped down harder on her detrimental bullshit.
  
  Is that true? I'm an HP Lovecraft head and had never heard that

Moreover, ACAB includes Harry Potter
- Does ACAB extend outside the USA?
  
  Why shouldn't it?
  
  I'd say outside the US there is generally less of that macho psuedo military 'alpha male' vibe and it is generally less tribal with internal protection, but there will always inherently be something problematic with a job that places people above their peers in power and the people that apply for it. Whilst many may do it entirely for good reasons there will always be bad actors. I dont really see ACAB as entirely true, even in america, but i think the role itself as a job will always be a problem in society.
  
  It does. My friend just got back from Tel Aviv last week and he had some pictures of ACAB graffiti on buildings there.

Minecraft Creator notch went the same way, as did Dilbert author..
I'm convinced there's a cabal of billionaires that either get dirt on people on the rise and corrupt/blackmail them, or eliminate people who are not corruptable before they get too rich/powerful. It doesn't take much to kill someone, and neuvo riche probably aren't prepared for the precautions they'd actually need to take.
That and money corrupts (or so we're told, seems like it'd make as much sense that people who hoard money corrupt)
- You should watch Shaun's video on the Harry Potter series. He goes into a deep dive of how the books are littered with her political views - even the first one - and how you can watch her become more conservative as they progress and she became more wealthy: the books start out criticizing the system, but by the end, the message becomes that the system should never be questioned.
  Throughout the books are a pattern of borderline racist stereotypes (the black kid is named Shacklebolt, the Asian girl is named two single syllable last names - might as well be named Ching Chong - the 15-year-old Irish kid is obsessed with whiskey and blowing stuff up, etc), but you can also see where her transphobia came from. Everytime she wants you to hate a woman in the books, she describes them as having some kind of masculine features, from a strong jawline to "mannish hands."
  As people become more wealthy or famous, they're given a bigger microphone to cast their garbage opinions with and it's never been easier to tell the world your shitty political beliefs than it is right now.
  
  His video on Rowling’s new friends is also a good watch.
  Helen Joyce has gone onto Jordan Peterson for Chrissakes. They’ll overlook their feminism as long as they can hate trans people.
  Rowling has also platformed NeoNazi Posey Parker’s work. This is the person who popularized that “adult human female” slogan they love so much.
  The feminism is a front. If they make themselves the victims, they can be hateful shits.
- I think it just takes quite a few moral failings to even achieve that level of wealth in the first place in the vast majority of cases.
  Here specifically, these people are authors and IP holders in a society that places a lot of value in ignorance and in very chauvinist and racist ideas. By hook or by crook, they've made something original. They have some merit, and you would expect them of all people to see those societal failings for what they are. To not comment on them, or to uphold them, or to mask them, (arguably all the same thing) is a decision they made in their work. I think we vastly overestimate how easy it is to do that across an entire body of independent work if it doesn't align with your beliefs.
  It makes sense that a person who has the merits and will to do something like that, again, entirely without challenging such obvious failures (as most in their position would), would be chosen to win the broad favor of a society that desperately does not want to be challenged or its failings acknowledged (esp ruling class, the ones with something to lose and wealth to spare to push these things), and would gain a lot of its wealth. Especially in ye old early-internet world when people weren't discovered as easily. Then, when their platform is secure, the mask slips.
  It's not a conspiracy or an aberration, it's survivorship bias. These people are a product of our society. We have to reckon with that.
  edit: I realized I could expand on what I meant in a few places so I sprinkled a bit more in.
- Scott Adams was always insane. Behind the Bastards covered him. Before twitter, we just inserted our own meaning into the short comics. When he had more time to write a story in the cartoon, there were signs. I remember the Bob Bastard episode and how he views people who give to charity.
- Money/power doesn't corrupt, it liberates you from the consequences of your actions. It allows you to freely be fully true to yourself without fear of repercussions.
- The Harry Potter books aren't very good. They probably only got enough promotion to become the phenomenon they did because the kingmakers knew what kind of a person J. K. Rowling really was. If she'd actually been a decent human being that series would've died in obscurity.

They are....billionaires. That is the common denominator of horrible people. They think that because they are rich beyond measure that their opinions should rule the world. The world would be a much much better place if we were rid of the pestilence of the billionaire class and maybe the '$100s of millions' class. No one gets to being a billionaire by being completely honest, law abiding, fair, moral and ethical. Rules must be ignored in the quest for superlative riches. Those rules are only for those who haven't become rich enough to ignore them. Even if they seem like benign benefactors, scratch the surface and you will find they are, without exception, evil.

Her work did really speak to me as a young gay child in a place where it wasn't ok. That being said, fuck the author. Haven't gone to the park, haven't seen the new movies, haven't played the new games, haven't given her any money in well over a decade.
In this day and age, I can easily find entertainment elsewhere. Anyone else that loved her work can do the same.
- ...but really must tell others of us with less personal investment about the nature of what and why. I knew she was controversial and probably a bad person due to headlines in the periphery, but I didn't know she is a genocidal monster type of a person. H.P. was a little late (in film) for my childhood, but it is still good to know why exactly she is to be avoided at the peripheral awareness cultural level.
  
  Genocidal monster? Good lord that’s a bit of a stretch

Also like Elon Musk, her origin story is a load of bullshit.

Fuck rowling, i pirate ALL her shit. Ill do what i want with the I.P. and nobody can stop me.
- Same, I love HP. It's probably my all time favourite series, but I haven't paid her a cent since she showed her true colours, and I never will again. So I pirate.
- "I'll make my own Hogwarts! With blackjack, and hookers!"
  
  Call that hooker hermione the way she gave my hog warts.
  
  That's called The Magicians

Related to the reply at the bottom, it's so weird to me whenever people try to either separate or hand-wave Lovecraft's attitudes from his works as if they're not super-duper fucking related to each other. Like, you can't say "HPL was a elitist xenophobe but Shadow over Innsmouth is a good story," like one doesn't follow the other... "therefore, Shadow over Innsmouth is a good story."
Part of what makes Lovecraft's horrors so timeless dispite their frankly dated and unsatisfying writings is how he tapped into a primal fear that most other creatives have abandoned, the fear of "the other group."
/rant
I may elaborate more/clarify some things if people want to talk about it
- Also HPL is super dead, his estate isnt continuing his legacy of being a racist fart waffle. The whole "Death of the author" problem becomes much easier once the actual author is dead and they no longer personally benifit from the discussion or consumption of their work.
  Thats why JKR is so problematic, engaging with her BS keeps her relavent so she can do more damage. HPL can be discussed more freely because he cant break anything else from his coffin in Providence.
- Defending shadow over inssmouth, specifically, is weird because that is the one where the scary part is supposed to be the main dude finding out he's the offspring of a monkey-princess from Africa. The most obvious, straight up not even subtle racist twist.
  It is a good story... Up until the end and you're meant to be scared by "oh no my grandma was black!"
  
  You’re thinking of Arthur Jermyn. Innsmouth is the fish people that the neighbouring town thought was simply a product of spending so much time fraternising with the Chinese.
  
  Black? The twist was he was a fishman.
- To Lovecraft, the sinister other was a continuum stretching from people of non-WASP stock all the way to ancient chaos gods at the core of a vast, pitiless universe
  
  Using "stock" when describing racial lines: Pure HP. 🤌🏻
  He was what I call hilariously racist, as in, so over the top all you can do is laugh. Hell, he hated on other white New Englanders that weren't from "good stock".
  And his cat, LOL my god, what a name. (Really wasn't unusual to name a black animal something like that. As Archie Bunker would say, "What?! That's what we called dose people in dose days!)
- I don’t want to talk about it but I like where your thought it going. I’m just not feeling like I have a lot to add.
- Lovecraft is a bit of an odd duck in this comparison largely because his own works are fairly dull and uninteresting on top of being a generally shitty person overall.
  His contributions are mostly that he had some really interesting ideas from the world building side of things that other authors and creators turned into far more interesting stories. Not really comparable to JKR in that Harry Potter is actually a pretty good piece of YA fiction.
  
  I think Harry Potter is pretty shitty and uninteresting fiction. It is not really a constructive argument though, because it is entirely subjective. A lot of people thinks that Lovecraft wrote some great and interesting fiction, so I am not really sure what you are trying to say.
  
  Well, Harry Potter is entertaining, but it is racist and bigoted in a more modern subtle micro-aggressive way. “Slaves actually want it, if you are a good master” apology, Voldemort is evil because he wants to be immortal (not because he promotes the ideas of an genocidal eugenicist), glorifying emotional manipulation, the high school jock is the protagonist and he grows up to be a cop. The text is difficult content wise for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with Rowling's political stances. I mean the girl of Asian descent is literally called Cho Chang.
  
  I’d say his writings were more novel, and interesting, than Rowling’s. He overused fancy words, and when you stripped away the ornament, his stories ran on xenophobia and catastrophising (“what if those weird-looking foreigners practice human sacrifice, or are really not humans but fish-monsters?”), but he could write a compellingly eerie story. (Some of them have, of course, aged worse than others.) Rowling, meanwhile, plots like a LLM trained on the past century of British children’s literature.
  
  Fourth grade me disagreed with it being pretty good YA fiction even at that age. It was generic and only decent if it was your first exposure to YA fantasy.

Solution? Trans-positive fanfiction that celebrates the parts you’re nostalgic for, but doesn’t financially benefit Rowling
- shes going to hate star trek or most sci fi genre.
  
  Trekkie here. People still complain about modern Trek being "woke" unlike their preferred version (which definitely does not talk about "woke" issues through allegory, or something)
- Trans Wizard Harriet Porber by Chuck Tingle unironically slaps.
  
  Chuck Tingle is amazing and I hope continues to write for a long long time.

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  autismjester - Apr 17
  People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of _{problematic artists} and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.
  She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.
  Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don't care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she's the same as the rest of any giant list of _{problematic creators of the week} waters down how dangerous she is.
  decadent-trans-girl - 18h ago
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  every time HP Lovecraft's name comes up in conversation we're obliged to do a collective struggle session about his racism but J.K. Rowling is out here donating the proceeds of her IP to the Foundation For Putting Trannies In The Thresher and people are like 'well her work means a lot to me'
  May 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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- It truly is an encapsulation of ablism that you're being downvoted regarding keeping things accessible on a post about causing harm to the marginalized.
  
  Yep, delicious irony of keyboard activists:
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  ❌ take real, immediate action that doesn't even require leaving the keyboard/mobile app
  Speaks to the sincerity of some.

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