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"speaking out against anti-Semitism" in this context means calling anyone who criticises Israel anti Semitic while desperately trying to brush the greedy blood drinking hook nosed goblin bankers that have a star of David on the floor under a massive rug

Link to article bcs I'm not a lib (CW: transphobia): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/16/jk-rowling-holocaust-denier-allegation-rivkah-brown-novara/

edit: i linked the wrong article sowwy cri. here's the one i linked before by accident https://forward.com/culture/603271/jk-rowling-holocaust-streisand-effect/

On an unrelated note heres some of the official Harry Potter promotional material:

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

"Left-wing journalist apologises"

Stop doing this. Stop validating the right-wings bullshit. They are counting on you giving them the benefit of the doubt. They are not arguing in good faith so don't play civil with them. Never apologise for being correct.

[–] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the only reason she apologised was because JK Rowling threatened to sue her because the UK is a fucked up country where any nineteeneightyfour 1984 wrongspeak nineteeneightyfour can get you taken to court and bled dry from legal fees under our fucked up libel laws

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yeah, as much as jk rowling goes on about how free speech needs to be utterly protected, she's constantly threatening to sue people who criticise her to shut them up, basically lays bare how all she wants """free speech""" for is to post increasongly fascistic rants on her twitter without criticism

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Fascists are always hypocritical when it comes to freeze peach

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago
[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i mean it's the UK. if she didn't apologize they could have fined her for damages plus rowling's court fees.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm unfamiliar with the UK, is saying something that's technically and colloquially accurate, and JKR's exact tweets being available to scrutinize, not a valid rebuttal of JKR's (libel/defmation/etc) claims?

[–] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it would be, and the journalist could plausibly win but only after an incredibly drawn out and expensive legal fight that would bleed most people dry long before it was over

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminder that Johnny Depp lost his case against Amber Heard in England where he thought it'd be easier. You can openly publish thst Johnny Depp is a wife beater in england, the courts said so.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Always double down.

"Yeah, you're not a holocaust denier, you're a holocaust supporter. One more word and I'm downgrading you to holocaust perpetrator."

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Has anyone seen a picture of JK Rowling in the same room with Eva Braun?

I'm starting to get really suspicious.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Those two groups are damn near a circle anyway.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

The journalist was forced to apologize under threat of legal sanction. Libel/defamation laws in the UK are absolutely unhinged, and heavily favor the "right" of rich people to not have mean things said about them by anyone. JKR loves using legal threats to silence all criticism of her. She sues people for making fun of her all the time.