It wasn't just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now?
It wasn't just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now?
When asked why the British author's views on trans people aligned with the Nazis, and Rowling said that Nazis did not persecute trans people.
The most famous forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism tend to focus on Jews, casting doubt, for example, on how many were exterminated in the camps. But denying the impact the Nazis had on the other groups they targeted, including queer and trans people, disabled people and Romani people, is still Holocaust denial. Maybe someone should tell J.K. Rowling.
I thought it was pretty well known that the Nazi party destroyed the first thing we would consider a Trans hospital?
She should have done a tiny bit of googling.
Third result on Google was the right wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft
Once I found out that Harry Potter glorified the British class system by having it take place at an elite private school where people less privileged than them are looked down upon and even called names I was already turned off... but once I got to the obviously antisemitic goblins, I was done.
I wish it wasn't so damn popular.
Edit: I realize this article isn't about antisemitism. This is just another example of Rowling's bigotry.
It's sad that she's likely repressing a LOT of gender dysphoria, but just doubles down on the bigotry and hate. Fuck JK Umbridge.
All direct quotes:
I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he’d have preferred.
As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the 1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through.
I remember how mentally sexless I felt in youth.
Fortunately for me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a woman...
The type of Holocaust denial they're suggesting she's doing wouldn't make her antisemitic, because she's not denying its impact on the Jewish people. It just makes her more transphobic, which we already knew.
Lotta dipshits in the comments here, block button is working extra today.
Naturally when people called her out for being wrong she quickly set up a strawman to keep herself from having to admit any ignorance or fault. What a stupid hill she has chosen to die on, she could have been universally beloved if she just kept her shitty views to herself.
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I think its worth pointing out that harry doesn't have an interesting arch - despite foreshadowing he never really really has to confront his own personal problems besides having dead parents.
Sadly, for those involved, society at large didn't really give a shit enough to teach about every group attacked by nazis. From the history books openly available at the time in my country at least, post communist era, Jews were the main victims, gypsies second and the handicapped or malformed in third place, as per importance in extermination.
That's it.I doubt her education was better than mine and she seemed willing to accept the updated information as explained in the article, so it's not that she's completely rigid.
And to be unbiased, "deviants from the norm" were attacked in every major country, before and after the nazist period. Book burnings are common enough even now. So linking this exclusively to the Holocaust is in poor taste and denies it being a global issue that has little to do with Nazism itself but rather the causes that elected its rise.
I am pretty sure that’s not the right definition. Holocaust denial isn’t about denying the impact of the holocaust had on the victims and the survivors. It’s about denying the scale and planned nature of the genocide.
JK Rowling doesn’t deny the holocaust. She’s not even denying that trans people were targeted, she is denying that they were among the first victims of the nazis. And while denying that they were targeted is wrong, it’s not denying the holocaust happened.