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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

In some circles, especially Trans communities that suffer actual real harm from viewpoints like hers, absolutely. In others, no so much.

Again, this is a hill she's chosen to die on. Everyone can decide for themselves on how they're going to react. But she has a massive, massive platform that sucks the air from the room, and now she's thrown that "I'll sue your ass for libel if you cross me" grenade out there to further quell objection or even a discussion about it.

Her book sales are UP right now, because parents are reading the books to their kids as they try to fill the time during lock downs. Aside from isolated threats, which everyone can agree are beyond the pale, she's not suffering at all from the backlash, aside from her ego, which admittedly is pretty damned big.

If someone wants to take the position that they're not going to further support JK Rowling because of this* and tell their friends, family, the studios, publishers, etc why, I don't have a problem with that.



*She's been on thin ice for awhile. Retroactively making a character gay and another who could go either way as black or white, plus a bit character no one has ever heard of as Jewish. Embarrassingly bad cultural appropriation in her stuff that's based in North America with little or no research. See also racism in North America. She was way out of her league and got called to the carpet for her. The Johnny Depp problem, which probably isn't a problem for you but is for a lot of other people and had an effect on the box office, which makes it a problem for Warner Brothers. Plus, her post-Potter books and movies and plays haven't been as good as the Potter stuff.

what is the Johnny Depp problem?