oh yeah it’s dawned on me that some of you may think that i hate j.k rowling simply bc she’s a terf but her terfism was actually just the final schadenfreude straw of why i think she’s a terrible person.

i initially disliked like her character assassinations of jeremy corbyn, the first labour leader in my lifetime to be overtly pro-palestine, pro-taxing the rich, pro-nationalising the railways and the internet, pro-disarmament of nuclear weapons, pro-investment in the NHS, anti-war, anti-racist and generally just a pretty chill guy.

during corbyn’s tenure, she used her twitter to exacerbate the national smear campaign against him — including bogus claims of anti-semitism which seem all the more revelatory and unforgivable in the wake of the genocide in palestine.

none this would’ve been uniquely angering except this was also around the time she was running around trying to make her mid Harry Potter books seem more liberal than they are, conveniently retconning shit like “duh yeah of course Dumbledore is gay” and “I never said Hermione wasn’t Black”

there was this glaringly obvious hypocrisy of this billionaire cosplaying as woke on one hand then being a shameless rabid capitalist on the other—all while calling herself a loyal member of the labour party. she’d talk about how she was poor once, living out a car then she’d pedal lies about the best prime ministerial candidate for working people in recent memory and nobody was calling that shit out.

at that point, she was still unwaveringly considered a national treasure. so for ages, i felt gaslit by the silence of everyone around me like do you lot not see how shitty this person is? am i the only one that sees how two-faced this behaviour is?

so yeah that’s the humble beginnings of my divine mission of culturally exterminating the wizard lady.

just me, ursula le guin and bell hooks chatting shit about jk rowling