Posted on 03/25/2022 9:31:51 AM PDT by dennisw
JK Rowling has spoken out against Vladimir Putin after he defended the Harry Potter author in a speech condemning “cancel culture” in the west.
The Russian president claimed the west was trying to cancel Russian culture, including the works of great composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninov.
He said the British author had also been “cancelled” over her stance in transgender debates.
“They cancelled Joanne Rowling recently – children’s author, her books are published all over the world – just because she didn’t satisfy the demands of gender rights,” he said during a televised speech.
He continued: “They are now trying to cancel our country. I’m talking about the progressive discrimination of everything to do with Russia.”
The leader went on to liken “cancel culture” to Nazis trying to burn books in the 1930s, a theme he has returned on a number of times during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Responding on Twitter, Rowling shared a BBC News report about a Putin critic who was jailed, writing: “Critiques of western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine.”
She also shared numerous posts about the work of her children’s charity Lumos in the country, which has been under attack from Russia for more than four weeks now.
Rowling has repeatedly come under criticism for various social media posts, which many have accused of being transphobic.
In June last year, Rowling sparked outrage for posting a series of tweets about menstruation that critics labelled “transphobic”. Taking offence at an article’s use of the phrase “people who menstruate”, she tweeted: “’People who menstruate’. I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
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Putin decrying cancel culture?
Now THAT’S irony.
You’re not helping, Vladdy.
Pooty Poot is not all evil bastard war monger. Here he is branching out into being a cultural critic.
“Putin decrying cancel culture?”
When Poooty cancels someone it is via Polonium tea, prison or death. If Russia still had Siberian gulags, then Poooty would be exiling his enemies too.
BTW Stalin is Poooty’s idol, though I think the old Tsars rank higher in Poooty’s diseased brain.
All that this exchange proves is that culture cannot exist if it allows too much dissent...dissent that will undermine it. The Left in the US understands this. Vladmir Putin understands this. Really anyone who is not niave undestands this. You can tell that the Right has lost the culture war because they are currently the side playing defense. I’d like to think we can win it back, but I’ve become much more pessimistic about it as I’ve gotten older.
Probably no less politically advantageous place to be is someone on the left who offends everyone on the left by saying that men don’t menstruate from their vaginas.
Good for her and F Putin.
jk rowling does not deserve the blow back for her trans concern.
the only issue i have with her is turning Hermione black.
Who in the West has ANY moral authority, after the tyranny they imposed on the people during COVID.
Not any leaders from the EU.
Not any leaders from North America.
Not the Heretic Pope, that’s for sure.
Not from the Clinton/Obama/Biden axis of evil. /spit
Awwww poor dictator is being picked on. Poor guy
She was all for it when it was other people, so screw her, it's great when Liberal turn on each other
pooty is trying to cancel an ENTIRE COUNTRY, but compares himself to a childrens’ books author being cancelled ... i doubt if too many people feel sorry for him ...
“Putin decrying cancel culture? Now THAT’S irony.”
Isn’t it, though?
Indeed - someone who shuts down media that says anything negative about him is criticizing cancel culture?
She also turned Dumbledore gay.
I read and enjoyed two Harry Potter novels. Dumbledore simply was not gay, and Hermione simply was not black. Had they been, those issues would have come up in the novels.
She has noted correctly that women are not men and men are not women. I guess she deserves to be congratulated for that.
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