THE BRILLIANT British commentator Owen Jones has been vilified online by J. K. Rowling and I have to say his answer asking her, the epic anti-trans avenger of feminism (though I'd like to know how she treats feminists who have no problem with TransPeople) has been entirely silent over the murders, rapes, sexual abuse, torture, and the health, nutritional, family and personal catastrophe that has been ongoing for going on two years against Palestinian WOMEN, only, as he shows in his video defense of himself and turning the question on her. Or maybe it's only Women in the West she cares about or Women who want to do things like compete in sports or play roles in movies. She clearly hasn't been bothered to say anything about the hundreds of thousands who have been the victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza and elsewhere.
But she wasn't exactly silent, having early on condemned those who were calling for a cease fire. I was pretty much done with Harry Potter well before this but I'd never have taken it up if I knew how things were going to go. You might want to listen to how he takes her apart.
I'm going to post the video again from later in it where he exposes the libel against himself committed by the Israel right-or-wrong and even in Nazi mode crowd, including the war criminal Netanyahu's former press flack. He shows how a dishonestly clipped question he asked of the odious Piers Morgan was presented as him excusing the acts of Hamas on October 7th, when he was pointing out that what Morgan was saying about Israels' ongoing genocide WOULD BE EXACTLY LIKE EXCUSING THAT CRIME DUE TO ISRAEL'S TREATMENT OF PALESTINIANS. The Liars for Israel clipped it to make it seem like he was excusing the crimes of October 7th and it's gone viral with the apologists for genocide and mass slaughter.
Only, the fact is that it is the Israel apologists who are doing exactly what they are accusing Owen Jones of doing WHEN HE DIDN'T DO THAT.
Back to Rowling.
Maybe what happens to Rowling happens to most if not all of those who become billionaires and believe they got it by being a lot smarter or better than they are. In her case probably exacerbated by her knowing that without her imagining the books, none of that would have happened. She didn't hire the writing job out like most billionaires have gotten rich off of other Peoples' ideas. If that's the case she should have gotten over that by now. She wrote a series of kid's books that became wildly popular, it isn't as big as all that. Seeing what she's up to these days, I don't think I'd read her books to children again, I don't think I'd defend her against her dishonest right-wing fundamentalist critics, as I used to. If she were as good and smart as she seems to like to believe she is, she'd listen to as honest and exigent a critic as Jones is and do a little of that self-reflection that I believe is also recommended in even her Presbyterian tradition.
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