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Children's Harry Potter book festival event is cancelled over JK Rowling transphobia row after discussions with the LGBTQ community
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 02 2021 | SANCHEZ MANNING

Posted on 05/02/2021 2:09:49 AM PDT by knighthawk

J. K. Rowling has again fallen victim to ‘cancel culture’ after a literary festival in New Zealand scrapped plans for a Harry Potter-themed event over her comments on gender issues.

Peter Biggs, chairman of the Wairarapa book festival, reportedly decided to drop the annual children’s quiz that is usually held on the boy wizard following consultations with the LGBTQ community.

It is not the first time that Ms Rowling has been ‘cancelled’ as a result of expressing her views on whether men who identify as women are the same as biological females.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chatforum; harrypotter; homosexualagenda; rowling

1 posted on 05/02/2021 2:09:49 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

JK Rowling has a lively imagination, but even she cannot quite imagine men becoming women as anything other than a product of some, as yet unnamed, dark lord...


2 posted on 05/02/2021 2:28:23 AM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...) )
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To: BroJoeK

That pesky Y chromosome thing and significant sexual dimorphism (real settled science) puts the lie to the Left’s mantra that gender is a social construct.


3 posted on 05/02/2021 2:34:11 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster; All

Interesting—Caitlyn (born Bruce) Jenner
has said trans women shouldn’t compete
in girls sports.One headline I saw
said the trans community is dreading
Jenner’s run for governor as her/his/its party, the Republicans, want to
“decimate trans’ rights”.
So
—trans females were born male but want
to compete in female sports (pardon me
for saying there are only two genders
by the way). Unfair advantage...

—MA prison inmate Robert “Michelle”
Kosilek claims to be a trans woman.
While he/she/it successfully got the
state to pay for some gender altering
I believe Kosilek is still in a men’s
prison. Kosilek murdered his (whatever’s) wife.


4 posted on 05/02/2021 2:43:20 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: knighthawk

The world is now being dominated by queers who make up maybe 5% of the population.


5 posted on 05/02/2021 2:45:03 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: raccoonradio; All

Wonder if the publisher of the Potter
books—Scholastic I believe— will stop
printing and selling them. Quite a few
were sold and several films made. Cancel
culture, right?
I think the story went that every publisher but Scholastic turned her first
book down, believing it wouldn’t sell.
Also she preferred to by billed the way she is, not by her name of Jennifer
Rowling because she felt boys wouldn’t
want to read a book by a woman.


6 posted on 05/02/2021 2:48:25 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

To BE billed


7 posted on 05/02/2021 2:49:00 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: knighthawk

JK Rowling is untouchable so she doesn’t really care if her shows get cancelled. No matter what anyone thinks of her she has several hundred lifetime’s worth of money and all the fame she ever wanted. The amusing part is that she was a big Lib Trump hater so we can enjoy her getting a taste of her own medicine, even if it really doesn’t affect her.


8 posted on 05/02/2021 3:01:31 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: knighthawk

Jk’s net worth is a billion dollars.
All this does is upset fans.


9 posted on 05/02/2021 3:02:27 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: knighthawk

Black mail and extortion.


10 posted on 05/02/2021 3:09:29 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: raccoonradio

255 California prison inmates identify as transgender, nonbinary so they can be moved to women’s prisons
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3949567/posts

How many still have a penis? I expect most. How many are working the system? Tell me this won’t cause huge problems.

NSFW meme pic that shows why:

https://media.patriots.win/post/p8Zm5zaU.png

Slightly different angle on the whole thing, but the same idea at work.


11 posted on 05/02/2021 3:13:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: knighthawk

Thought police.


12 posted on 05/02/2021 3:13:35 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: knighthawk

The North Island people are like California liberals...


13 posted on 05/02/2021 4:16:46 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: knighthawk

Remember “we just want to live our lives. We’re not hurting anyone”? Now it’s total compliance or else.


14 posted on 05/02/2021 4:23:39 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: knighthawk

A phobia is often defined as an irrational fear. More recently some definitions have included the word intolerance. Some medical definitions include symptoms such as sweating, increased heart beat and anxiety.

J.K. Rowling is not being irrational and my guess is that she is not experiencing any of the other symptoms of a phobia. The word is being used to discredit her opinion without having to look at facts.

As to intolerance, There is another phobia that may apply, and it may include some of the other symptoms. Allodoxaphobia is mostly found in medical dictionaries, and is used to describe the fear of other’s opinions.


15 posted on 05/02/2021 4:51:51 AM PDT by Tom Bombadil
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To: ArcadeQuarters
What is frightening and anger-inducing about all this is the Left's insistence, much in the same vein as Orwell's O'Brien in 1984 who is intent on making Winston actually believe that '2 + 2 = 5'), that we fully believe and play along with this mental illness.

THAT is what I find fundamentally repellent about all this.

In the past, you could have said with a shrug:

"Look, what you do with your own life is your business. I'm not interested in getting it on with a guy saying he is a girl who is a Lesbian who rebels by wanting to have non-lesbian sex with a guy..."

and sane people would understand the insanity inherent in people that engage in those mental gymnastics expecting others to accept it and play along.

In a sane world.

16 posted on 05/02/2021 5:56:06 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: BroJoeK

Used to be called ‘degenerates’.


17 posted on 05/02/2021 7:35:14 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: HotHunt

Degenerates.


18 posted on 05/02/2021 7:36:30 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: knighthawk

If you oppose grooming children for castration you are expelled from polite society.


19 posted on 05/02/2021 8:36:51 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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