Posted on 08/11/2025 11:15:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan
JK Rowling, creator and author of the "Harry Potter" book series, lit up liberals for sacrificing the principle of free speech, stating that the reason they did so was that they were terrified they wouldn't be accepted by "their tribe." This is a very astute observation from Rowling. Fear was, is, and always will be the engine that drives the liberal/progressive movement.
This is why they shame those among their group who step out of line with the accepted doctrine of the hivemind. Cancel culture was born from this line of thinking. Cut people off from their tribe, where they have social standing, are given an identity, a purpose, and you essentially sever them from the vine that sustains them, provides them with life.
Rowling took to social media platform X where she published a post explaining that for free speech to truly exist, it has no choice but to embrace the freedom to offend people with speech. She then ripped into liberals who could not seem to move beyond "this most basic hurdle”.
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One of the benefits of being a billionaire is if the left tries to cancel/boycott you, you won’t give a sh**, LOL! I really like this woman. I tried to read her books once but found it boring. Maybe I’ll try again.
Among leftists, in order to appear more virtuous, one must be more extreme.
LOL! FWIW, they didn't grab me either although I know plenty of adults who loved them, even to the point of dressing in costume and lining up at Barnes & Noble to purchase the newest release.
You are not allowed to think for yourself if you are a lib.
*: Transphobic Extreme Radical Feminist.
Good lord, “those” people have an acronym for EVERYBODY!
She is being way too generous in her interpretation. Most "liberals" are against free speech because they are totalitarians who want to control what people say and think, period. If you disagree with them, they want you marginalized and ultimately, jailed.
Yes she’s made the outrageous claim that men who pretend to be women aren’t really women.
I prefer to call them badges of honor.
The final objective would be to replace our Republic with Cultural Marxism. The process is well underway, and few notice any difference and/or when asked they prefer the latter. The Constitution still holds symbolic pride of place but is ignored.
Karl Marx says in introducing the Communist Manifesto, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”. This view is limited to what can be observed, measured, or computed. Everything exists within the bounds of infinity. Humanity exists as swarms identified to be segregated, dominated, and/or irradicated. There is no perception or acknowledgement of eternity. The adherents to this philosophy must regard pseudo-economics and pseudo-science as a doxology; a liturgical expression of praise to their god. It must be continually repeated by those adhering to the faith of Social Marxism in order to retain the veneer of rationalism over a fundamentally irrational worldview.
No. The "beautiful lie" of Marxism is but a stepping stone, using socialism to dispossess all property and concentrate all power. Marxism is then forgotten in the gluttony of power as executed by every one of these tyrants in their own minds.
Hence, the boot-heels 'stomping on a human face' of "the other," is on its face a pompous demonstration of virtue, but in reality it is merely posturing, Marxists clawing at each other to attain total supremacy, just as heedless of the victims as they are of the other supposed beneficiaries on which they clambered to the top. There isn't a Marxist out there not obsessed with unrestrained and unaccountable personal power, for which they expect to be richly rewarded.
The starkest face of human vanity.
She really really hates conservatves. In the Potter book they are muggles
In all her other books they are evil evil evil
She writes under the pen name of Robert Galbraith
Once our Republic is replaced with Cultural Marxism then that philosophical veneer is no longer needed for the subservience allowing unrestrained and unaccountable personal power, for which the Marxist expects to be richly rewarded.
Yeah I read about half of the first book then I just got to the point where it seemed stupid and boring to me. Actually I felt it was a ripoff of a 1990s video game called “Spellcasting” which was a game about a kid who goes to a Magic school which is a boring idea in itself.
Same with Lord of the Rings. I read all the books when I was around 14 and I was absolutely sucked in, obsessed by them, they just blew my mind, but 40 years later I tried reading it again and I couldn’t even get through the first chapter. I guess I got too old. lol
Really? Well does she realize what she is supporting is what conservatives support? What is she against? A secure border? Maybe conservative means something else in England. If she’s against a secure border, maybe she should take a look around. Muslims are quickly taking over the UK
I have no idea.
Her anti trans perspective comes out of her feminism.
She has been a major leftist.
But excluding men who pretend to be women from the benefits of feminist government largesse is the greatest crime possible in Modern Leftist Thought. :)
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