JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows”

Why doesn't she just take her Harry potter money and remove herself from society on some private island or something? How damaged do you need to be to want to start fights with an already marginalised section of society? What a rubbish human being!

Here's a Neil Gaiman thing to balance things out

My ghetto-rasied white sister-in-law that loves Motown & has worn cornrows, would quite literally beat her into a pulp for saying something this stupid within her reach.

And yes mouthy bigots deserve their ass beat, but go ahead & show the rest of us how you are so "progressive" that you stand up for the absolute worse of humanity.

I hate how this woman still gets attention. Sigh.

transphobia

look inside

racism

Chait's response to Rowling's racist reply to him is exceptional.

You can have black ancestry and appear not-black, so this really doesn't support her argument at all.

JK Rowling being deplorable aside, every time I see someone getting "s l a m m e d" in a headline I feel myself age a week.

Yet another example of Joanne specifically, and reactionaries as a whole having only The One Joke™

It would almost be funny if it wasn't so damn frustrating.

How she went from one of the most beloved authors of all time to this will never cease to amaze me.

JK Rowling continues to lose it.

Just as a reminder: Bigoted trolling is a one-way ticket to Bansville.

That is all.

She's so close to getting it, that gender is as much of a bullshit category as race is.
Frustrating to see someone understanding partially but not making the final leap to connect it.

...implying that she believes in Blood Quantum as well. Yikes.

Trans people, PoC... she was having a go at disabled people in her last book as well. I think maybe trolling has an addictive component and they have to reach further and further to get the same adrenaline hit.

Keep going, keep going. I wanna see how far you can go before people stop defending you. I wanna see how much you can get away with and where the line is. I wanna see how much bigotry society is willing to tolerate for the sake of Harry Potter. I want to watch you (metaphorically) hang yourself with your own rope. I want the chaos, I want the spectacle, and I want your followers to wake up and see you for who you really are, or else for you to drag them down with you.

Wow I thought she was perhaps subtle about her hatred, and that's why she isn't universally rejected yet, but apparently that's not the case:

Calling a man a man is not 'bullying' or 'punching down.' Crossdressing straight men are currently one of the most pandered-to demographics in existence, and women are under no obligation to applaud the people caricaturing us. — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 12, 2024

Honestly race is a social construct formed initially out of ethnicity in a very similar way to gender being a social construct formed initially out of sex. I don’t think most people would be offended by someone whose cultural behavior matched that of a race not normally associated with their ethnicity, as long as it was genuine and not done simply to appropriate another culture.

Like, if a white kid is raised around a lot of Jamaican immigrants, falls in love with reggae, and becomes a Canadian reggae sensation, we aren’t gonna say that he’s black (because he isn’t), but we also aren’t gonna say that Snow is appropriating Jamaican culture.

I guess it could be an interesting question for a more open future society, whether “trans-racial” identity could eventually be something we could identify and accept.

But of course TERFy bitch J.K. Rowling isn’t asking this question in good faith, she’s trying to be edgy and punch down, like she’s constantly doing these days. So, no J.K. Rowling. Fuck off.

Some famous people REALLY shouldn't have a Twitter account: Trump would have stayed a tacky real estate developer/reality TV host, Musk would have stayed a tech visionary, and Jo would have stayed a beloved children's book author.

Is there any way to like, disassociate being a Harry Potter fan to whatever embarrassing nonsense her X Formerly Known as Twitter accounting is spouting?

What always amazes me about such things is how easy it is to just keep your mouth shut and not say anything and yet so often people just...don't.

Her degeneration into the type of Nazi she'd parody in her books is almost complete.

JK Rowling's opinion about slavery is that most slaves like it, they're better off in slavery, and it's just the natural order of things.

When she speaks, she speaks from a place of fear and ignorance.

Quick someone SLAM JK Rowling for saying more idiotic nonsense. We need more celebrities SLAMMED as soon as possible. Some politicians too, keep on SLAMMING folks!

Yo, JK, it's SO EASY to NOT say anything. Just stop saying things.

Oh here's my monthly reminder that JK Rowling is nutjob.

She continues to fall down the Nazi rabbit hole.

The fact that she said this arguing with another transphobe who asked her to dial it back a little is hilarious

So, lemme get this straight JK, I can't be a woman despite intense dysphoria that didn't go away until I pumped my body full of hormones and literally inverted the look and function of one of my major organs... But you can be black, because you watched Sanford & Son that one time?

Mmhmm, mmhmm.....

Are you fucking stupid?

Slammed! Absolutely Blasted!

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

She has single handedly ruined my favourite childhood books.

Brain worms?

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

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

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?

It's such a bad faith comparison to make about trans people.
One's race oftentimes comes with a slew of cultural background, and misappropriation of that isn't cool.

Gender meanwhile is just a societal constrict built of the typical characteristics of the sexes - if you don't line up with the one given to you at birth, then there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to identify with what you do line up with.

This is the problem with social media. The dumbest opinions get spread not because they have a good point or even advance the discussion, but because they're dumb and we like to look at dumb opinions for entertainment value.

Geez, lady, just LET IT GO. You're not going to win this argument. You can't turn things around by powering through... you're just going to charge off a cliff. (Also, your films with Eddie Redmayne in them suck. Stop making those.)

Racist cunt, fuck this trash.

I am going to go have a smoke and look at the ocean for a while. You kids have fun.

At this point I'm pretty sure she's just trolling social media.

Jfc, she really is an idiot.

I mean, we all knew that, but the sheer depths pf utter idiocy that woman emits is a pollutant.

I’m just trying to figure out wtf her endgame is here? Like, there’s zero upside for her on this. I genuinely don’t get it.

Are we sure JK Rowling doesn't run the webcomic Sinfest?

I was born a dude, but I don't ask anyone if I wanna identify as a pregnant wood chipper on Benadryl..

Who wrote that series with the boy wizard you’re not allowed to buy anymore unless it’s second hand? Couldn’t have been her

Maybe there’s a trans activist who’d be willing to volunteer to become the series’ writer. Someone could photoshop all the covers accordingly.

yes do it

I will send her the shoe polish. She can see exactly how it works out for her.

I, for one, would find it absolutely hilarious to see JK Rowling try and use the N-word to Own The Libs.

something something black hermione

I say yes, she can be black. It doesn't really matter as long as we're all human.

I always thought she sucked as an author, then she showed her ugly personality, she's got nothing.

I read the first book when it came out and thought it felt like if you asked a group of teenagers to come up with a wizard story in 5 minutes and they spout out a bunch of ideas that come from previous cartoons and movies and mixed it together. But I gave it a pass, it's a kids book and I was like 20 and things get rehashed over time.

Harry Potter is what current generation AI would come up given other wizard stories as input.

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If you’ve read Harry Potter at any age older than 12 you’re not a serious person. Whenever I meet an adult who says they’re into Harry P. I’ll secretly judge them and avoid them. The same applies to adult MCU aficionados. So please stop giving her waaay more attention than her silly scribblings for half-wits make her deserve