JK Rowling Doubles Down in Her Support of Women & Children & Her Wariness of Trans Agenda In New Statement Explaining Why She Has Returned Her Robert F Kennedy Award for Humanitarianism

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[–]madderthanhell 95 insightful - 3 fun95 insightful - 2 fun96 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

I'm so impressed by JK Rowling. Her refusal to bow down or fall silent is hugely energising!

[–]BEB 47 insightful - 1 fun47 insightful - 0 fun48 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Me too. I'm way too old for her books, so had no opinion of her, but on this issue her courage is breathtaking.

And I can't count how many normal people with whom I've started the sometimes awkward gender ideology conversation by asking, "Have you heard about what's happening to JK Rowling?"

A surprising number of people have heard of the spat between JK Rowling and the Flat-Earthers of the Left. For some of these normal people, the Rowling affair is their first introduction to trans activist insanity, but they all end up on Rowling's side once I explain the issue.

[–]Daraincork 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I wish people would stop using 'left ' or ' socialist ' to describe this quasi religious crackpot cult.

[–]hermiona52 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. I'm a socialist and I fight for my right to marry in Poland (or to just live normally as a lesbian) and this whole gender stuff has nothing to do with science. And nothing with a true left which focuses mostly on economical issues. If I would to point a finger, it would be a modern liberalism, which is conservative on the "money" side of issues. And they only support the T because they seem woke and make a profit out of it.

[–]BEB 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In the US, the trans activist cult is championed by the Democratic party, whereas most Republican politicians have sided with women, if only just for political expediency. So that's why trans activism in the US is considered "Leftist."

But I think calling trans activists and their supporters the "Flat-Earthers of the Left" also implies that they are an extreme, and that most Lefties don't agree with that extreme. The Republican party is similarly divided, with relatively sane economic conservatives on one hand, and on the other, the Rapture Christians and similar.

[–]Marsupial 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The problem with basing political categorization on the US system is that there are pretty much only two parties in the US system. And right now, the right wing is setting the tone. If something is not right-wing, it ends up being viewed as left-wing. So the definition of left-wing sort of becomes "whatever the right doesn't like", and it's simply not an accurate characterization. There are so many more nuances in politics.

[–]BEB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed. And in the US we've lost sight of nuance in politics. I remember during Watergate, Republicans in Congress agreeing that Nixon had committed a crime. Now? It's all down party lines.

[–]Marsupial 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm entirely left but I hate being lumped up with movements that have nothing to do with the left. There's this weird idea that "left" means that you have to be inclusive of EVERYTHING that's not plain right-wing and it's simply not true. People have started to lump everything up with "the tolerant left", but the trans movement has nothing to do with "left" and just because somebody is left-wing in politics doesn't mean they have to be inclusive of every movement or every idea out there.

[–]zephyranthes 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm way too old for her books

You can try the Galbraith books.