Diseased Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

[The Cheese Aisle]

I actually feel bad for the good, mature trans people that have to put up with this horseshit in their fight for legal rights. It's fucking bonkers, how some of these insane retards get a pass over their unhinged behaviour just because they are in for trans rights. On the other hand, people often point to Rowling's more controversial (depending on the viewer, I didn't find any such opinions on her tweets) posts as evidence of why she should be boycotted, while conveniently ignoring the miles long list of harassment and death threats she's been putting up with. Some people have blamed her for an increase in hate crimes against trans people, which is bonkers!

In my opinion, no-one is better at radicalizing people against the trans rights movement than some of the lunatics they harbour in their midst. The whole shitshow regarding this game has been one of the most retarded, narcissistic ideas I have ever seen. People are getting harassed for playing a fucking video game!

It's insane to say Rowling is conducting a genocide or anything like that, let alone that playing a video game is endorsing that. Unhinged opinions, such as "Silence is violence", only serve to piss people off against your cause. Let alone harassing others like a bunch of blackshirts, for all of their talk about how everyone that disagrees with them is a Fascist, those assholes really do love to adopt Fascist tactics. I fear this will be the tipping point where most people who still back these guys will realize they crossed a line, and in the end there will be honest, mature and well intentioned folks getting caught in the crossfire. Disgusting!

I agree with this with the exception that there aren’t any rights that trannies don’t already have. They’re fighting for privileges, at the expense of others.

 

[Roland TB-303]

I agree with this with the exception that there aren’t any rights that trannies don’t already have. They’re fighting for privileges, at the expense of others.

Ummmm fact check sweaty, what about the right to groom minors into cutting off their dicks without their parent’s knowledge? And the right to take my young niece and nephew to a drag show with simulated sex acts and nudity? And the right to buy cross-sex hormones from Brazil to give to my neighbour’s children? And the right to show my massive dong to young girls in the locker room? We’ve got a long way to go.

 

[The Jackal]

I actually feel bad for the good, mature trans people that have to put up with this horseshit in their fight for legal rights.

Hold up. What rights do you believe trans people don't have? They have the right to devote their lives to pretending they are a member of the opposite sex. That's the only right they need. They don't have the right to force others to play along with the charade, they don't have the right to pressure confused children into taking hormones, they don't have the right to be in women's public toilets or women's prisons if they are male. These are not rights, they are just infringements of others' rights. So unless you're talking about Saudi Arabia or Iran, you can spare us the freedom-fighting narrative.

If you actually knew Japanese, you'd make the reach that ona is short for オナホール, or fleshlight.

Actually pretty ironic. As far as MtFs are concerned, women are just walking fleshlights.

Ummmm fact check sweaty, what about the right to groom minors into cutting off their dicks without their parent’s knowledge? And the right to take my young niece and nephew to a drag show with simulated sex acts and nudity? And the right to buy cross-sex hormones from Brazil to give to my neighbour’s children? And the right to show my massive dong to young girls in the locker room? We’ve got a long way to go.

Preach!

 

[LateNightMuffin]

Ummmm fact check sweaty, what about the right to groom minors into cutting off their dicks without their parent’s knowledge? And the right to take my young niece and nephew to a drag show with simulated sex acts and nudity? And the right to buy cross-sex hormones from Brazil to give to my neighbour’s children? And the right to show my massive dong to young girls in the locker room? We’ve got a long way to go.

Great post, except in the next to last sentence you misspelled "tiny."

 

[TheGuntinator]

next up on the chopping block would be games based off very old IPs that were made by people who's views that were mainstream a hundred years ago are now considered a dozen different types of Phobic.

LOTR game comes out? Well Tolkien definitely said some stuff that wouldn't fly today. Lovecraft game comes out? Same thing happens. Realistically you don't even need to go back that far, just look at how people today are being canceled because they said something that was fairly popular only a decade ago.

I'm personally looking forward to Woke Nukem where instead of drinking beer and bopping bimbos he becomes a feminist ally who manages to be an even bigger sex pest than Duke without any of the confidence attached.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Be careful out there

Like there's a fucking serial killer on the loose.

Not just one but everyone who bought HL is a tranny mudering serial killer

 

[Weeby Catto]

What we're seeing here is a bunch of terminally online people not understanding why certain tactics were adopted by historical activists.

The purpose of a boycott is to inflict economic damage on a target until they cave and stop "doing the thing". They're forced to chose between being financially sustainable or giving up the thing.

This doesn't work with JK Rowling or Warner Bros (of which the game studio is s subsiduary) because even if nobody ever bought a single copy of the game ever, it would not harm them, because Harry Potter is such a profitable IP and already has generated obscene amounts of money. Boycotting or not boycotting the game exerts zero pressure on JK Rowling, and purchasing it does not enable JK Rowling to "spread more transphobic hate" because she can do that for the rest of her life with the money she already has, even if she never received another royalty cheque.

"It will make more people aware of JK Rowling" is also stupid because everyone's already heard of JK Rowling and Harry Potter, and if they hadn't, they'd have heard about her from trans twitter screeching.

Additionally, this game is harmless. There is no transphobic message in this game, it's actually very inclusive, so they can't claim the game spreads a negative message.

So all that's left is "Boycott the game because TERF lady bad", which has no material impact on anything. That's why any materialist argument that comes up is ridiculous - "Playing Harry Potter means terfs will feel more powerful and murder trans people" is stupid because getting a bunch of pixels to cast Wingardium Leveosa is obviously not going to lead to trans murders. "If I see my friend suddenly gets a butterbeer achievement on Steam, I will be immensely triggered and then kill myself" is too abstracted from cause and effect, and also is far too transparently "if you don't do what I say, I will kill myself".

Boycotts that are pointless besides virtue signalling moral purity do not achieve anything, and therefore very few people will engage with them. Besides, as trans twitter likes to very frequently point out - there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism

No, you are stupid because you are still thinking based on logic, you think they act based on logic, no, they act based on malice.

Their tactics is to scare away people and spread deliberate insidious lies, so that when the number get high enough (retweets etc), people imagine them to be true and sales numbers drop. If sales numbers drop, then publishers will be more prone to cave in to whatever pressure they (eg. add trans surgery option to games etc) do because publishers really think they are the majority.

While fortunately it doesn't work here as most people aren't terminally online, it sometimes work, just like what happened to kiwifarms.

People trying to argue with them with logic are stupid and wasting time. They should never be given an ounce of your time, and if you do, it's an absolute dismiss like "cope, seethe & dilate".

 

[Dr. Funk]

The point of propaganda is to make people who aren't already hateful hate a specific group of people and want to act against them

With this in mind, the massive troon spergout and harassment campaigns surrounding this game are in and of themselves, excellent anti-troon propaganda. And the troons did it to themselves!

 

[Weeby Catto]

The anti-Semitic stuff is SUCH BULLSHIT man. They don't care about that at all, they just realize that no normal person thinks Rowling is preaching genocide and they're scrambling for reasons to boycott the game.

If you read the article on the left, you can see the pogrom actually happened in 1614, not 1612. And if the goblins are supposed to represent Jews, how does it make sense that the game developers would choose the date of the 'Goblin Rebellion' to coincide with an episode of anti-Jewish mob violence? Besides, this kind of thing happened all the fucking time in Europe from the Middle Ages into the 20th century, it's not like this is some special date, it's just a coincidence.

Here's another random event that happened in 1612:
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You could make an argument that goblins are supposed to represent Russians and it would make exactly as much sense. Actually it would make more sense because the rebellion they're citing didn't involve Jews.

As for the horn - you see horns all the time in fantasy/historical settings:

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Are these all supposed to be Jewish too? It's just such a weak, desperate conspiracy theory to try and make this completely innocent game about a fucking wizard school seem like Nazi propaganda, and everyone can see through it. It's so hilarious.

It's not meant to be logical, it's meant to waste your time and exhaust you. Some people will eventually believe and spread those lies further.

I can put out a lie, and it will take a disproportionately bigger effort on your side to debunk it with facts & logic. Most normies doesn't even believe the lies they are spouting.

I have one lunatic like that in one of the discord community i frequent, spouting exactly the same copy pasta lie.
Everyone there doesn't agree, and said that he is the one with problem for seeing all those things as antisemitic.

See? Normies with brains don't need to spend too much time to know it's lies, what these trans are aiming is for idiots to spread the lies further and waste people's effort for debunking it, they don't care if it's debunked.

They just care to paint JK as evil hitler.

 

[Gorillion others]

They keep claiming that there was a huge massacre of Jewish people in 1612 and that's why the horn is so significant and so Obviously a shofar... but not only does it not resemble other shofars in any meaningful way (from what I can see they tend to be quite twisty, while the horn in the game is not), but the massacre they're referring to didn't happen until 1614. And only three people died, one of whom was one of the assailants. (Like... I'm not saying it wasn't awful, and bigoted, and probably horrible for the people who went through it, and Jewish people are free to consider it a major event, but objectively calling it a "massacre" is kind of a stretch.) It's honestly hard to imagine they don't know they're lying, because you can find all of this information, from multiple sources, in one Google search.

Someone pointed out on Tumblr, but it's far more likely the date is meant to align with the Pendle Witch Trials, one of the most famous witch trials in all of British history. It makes a lot more sense.

Regardless, the reference is so obscure that it makes zero sense to claim this is somehow propaganda meant to radicalize people into hating Jews, like the troons are all claiming it does. Nobody is looking at that horn and thinking "hey this looks like an obscure medieval Jewish horn!" No one is seeing the date 1612 and thinking "ahh yes, the year of the Fettmilch Uprising, surely this is intended to make me think genociding Jewish people is okay because they genocided Jewish people in 1612" not least because (repeating for emphasis) the Fettmilch Uprising didn't happen until 1614 and the dude who led it was hanged like two years later for doing it which is hardly an endorsement of anti-Jewish violence. No one is seeing cheese stuffed in a horn and thinking "OF COURSE! This specific kind of cheese isn't kosher and obviously this is a coded message about shutting up Jewish people and tainting them with non-kosher foods, not a mere example of being comically specific for a joke effect!" If this is supposed to be propaganda, it's remarkably bad at it. The point of propaganda is to make people who aren't already hateful hate a specific group of people and want to act against them, you don't accomplish that with extremely vague, coded messages that no one but the most absurdly sensitive, terminally online and historically nerdy member of the group you want to make people hate would ever understand them. That's not how propaganda works.

But honestly... this should have been expected. Trans activists lie, and blatantly, every single day. The 41% statistic is bullshit. The "epidemic of trans murders" is bullshit, trans people are less likely to be murdered than literally every other group. And so on. They lie because they don't have any real truth to back them up and they know it. It's really annoying when they lie about verifiable historical facts, though, like damn guys, maybe try lying about something I can't google.

It's like one bizarre RP session.

 

[The Jackal]

It's not meant to be logical, it's meant to waste your time and exhaust you. Some people will eventually believe and spread those lies further.

I can put out a lie, and it will take a disproportionately bigger effort on your side to debunk it with facts & logic. Most normies doesn't even believe the lies they are spouting.

I have one lunatic like that in one of the discord community i frequent, spouting exactly the same copy pasta lie.
Everyone there doesn't agree, and said that he is the one with problem for seeing all those things as antisemitic.

See? Normies with brains don't need to spend too much time to know it's lies, what these trans are aiming is for idiots to spread the lies further and waste people's effort for debunking it, they don't care if it's debunked.

They just care to paint JK as evil hitler.

It's logical to them because they're deluded conspiracy theorists. If you think they can't possibly be stupid enough to believe this crap, trust me buddy they are. Or at the very least, they're able to convince themselves that they believe it because they want it to be true.

 

[Manat]

I haven't watched any of this dude's videos and honestly, I don't care to, but my guess is that this has to be a big fat fucking nothing burger, right?

Because if it was true, wouldn't you lead with this? I feel like 'One of the lead developers was alt right' would play better with normies, as opposed to 'this lady who wasn't involved with the project, and who the developers have gone out of their way to state wasn't involved in this project, said some stuff that was very minorly critical of trans ideology'?

Or is it just because he's a man and these people only ever direct their real bile towards women?

He publicly sympathized with gamer gate, and called anita sarkeesian "uninformed". Other than that he is very polite and calm I almost dozed off listening to him.

Local archive in case something happens to the download

So is sir a tranny only in the English voice?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

This girl made a tumblr post about her experience with the game and it actually debunks the antisemitism people are bitching about.

Hogwarts Legacy Review - by a mixed-race woman with Jewish roots.​

So I've been playing about 12h total I guess, I'm level 13 now and Ravenclaw.

• Graphics: I was surprised to find my laptop doesn't do too well if I don't put the graphics at low quality, but that's all right. I didn't buy my laptop for gaming, and actually even in low settings I am so amazed by how astonishing everything looks. Also it looks so artistic, like paintings? It's just so beautiful!
• Open world: It's massive. MASSIVE. But the map tools are fantastic, so you really don't get lost and if you did, there are thousand ways to find your way.
• Similarity to books/films: So they've taken A LOT of creative freedoms, which is great, because it provides another option, if you catch my drift. There are areas of the castle that look like an absolute palace, compared to the official Potter videogames that were less stunning, and areas wild and green and gorgeous, and some areas of the castle are in a different place than you'd expect, same with Hogsmeade, but like I said, the map tool is just fantastic so it's fine.
• Story being anti-semitic? So, careful with the spoiler, but the TRA people spent I don't know how long saying the game was some anti-Semitic horrible thing because Rowling is apparently anti-Semitic (so these jerks say) and the main plot is wizards-vs-goblins-who-apparently-repressent-jews. OK let me debunk this for you. One, the plot is there's an evil allegiance between some wizards and some goblins, and so then there's a good allegiance between the other wizards and the other goblins. You'll find a ton of goblins who need your help and a very scarce minority of bad goblins (and I'm currently stuck on one of these missions btw). But the majority of goblins are villagers and innocent gents like that. And goblins are not Jews. I've read about a good bunch of Jews who are not finding any issues with this videogame, and personally, between me and the Jewish community I'm in, of those of us playing, no one, so far, has felt even slightly offended by anything. And we know Rowling to be allied with several Jewish friends of hers, to have stood for Jews multiple times, and that in Potter, Voldemort repressented Hitler and Hermione and other "mudbloods", the Jews. That's the only repressentation of Jews I care about by this author, and I believe it led millions of children back then to better understanding anti-Semitism and what happened with Nazism.
• LGBT-friendliness: It's as friendly as it could possibly be. You get trans characters, I've already found a lesbian marriage as well, and when you create your character you can choose which loos they use (which I find a bit absurd because you don't have a need to go to the loo at all), and you can wear any hairstyle regardless of your sex. Facial hair, for what I've seen, is not available (you're supposed to be 15, so it makes sense) and clothes, because it's 19th century, are quite different sometimes depending on sex. But you've got a massive variety of clothes, so you can probably find something that suits you either way. Personally, I've loved all of the clothing options I've found.
• Canon: So far I've only recognised some surnames from the books. Everything else is not from the books and their own invention. Quite imaginative!
• Difficulty levels: So you can choose between, if I remember correctly, Very easy, easy, normal, and difficult (or something like that). I'll probably end up lowering my difficulty level because I'm so rusty with videogames!
• Quidditch: It's been cancelled by the headmaster, but you can still fly broomsticks around the massive open world and other animals.
• Animal interaction: you'll love it.
• Character mobility: You can swim, jump, walk, dodge, run, swim faster, dive, climb up things... Pretty much everything you'd normally do.
• Castle secrets: So, so many. I'm making a massive use of Revelio left and right, quite entertaining!
• Spells and combat: So you get many duelling opportunities, and duelling has never (and I've played every Potter videogame to date) been so realistic and fun. It's incredibly wild, savage, you really have to improve your coordination and make sure to get familiar with your console or keyboard. You get many spells, keep unlocking more as you go, and the visual effects are jaw-dropping.
• Glitches: To everyone complaining about glitches, you just really need a decent place to game in. I'm doing it in PC and it's not a gaming PC, but also it's not your average PC, and it does quite well with graphics left as recommended by my graphics card. I had a couple minor glitches that disappeared shortly after on their own.
• What you missed from the films: WE HAVE PEEVES!!! And keep your eye out because he's a little devil. You also have access to classes, your own place to brew potions in your spare time, same for planting things, and so on.
• Relationships and interaction: There's no romance, but there's so much interaction. There's friendship, you can choose to have people duelling in your side with you, and as you walk around you'll constantly hear voices of people around you, and there will always be stuff going on. I went to the Quidditch pitch and found a group of players from my house complaining about the headmaster, then losing a quaffle, and then going to fetch it. And it wasn't on loop, it was very natural. Then around the castle the ghosts will say things, students... Lots going on! lots of life!
• Accesibility: All voices are both on subtitles and in your ears, you can change language as well, and brightness and things like that. They do warn people who might suffer seizures from epilepsia.
• Shopping: So you'll find money all over, and then you can buy clothes, haircuts, lots of things. And when you buy clothes it has this super cool option where you can choose one item because it gives you more defence or attack points, but give it the appearance of any other you got that you might like more. Magic!
• Multi-racial representation / sexism: So far very good. My house partner is Asian I think, but I've quite befriended Gryffindor's girl, who's from Tanzania I think? Well, she went to the African school and mentions a fictitious town she lived in with her Mum. The only white character is the Slytherin boy I believe (can't remember who was in Hufflepuff). And as for random students / teachers, you really get massive diversity. It's like walking around London for me. Also, about as many important males as females, which is great.
• About that trans character! So Sirona is named after the Celtic goddess of healing and I find the name quite fitting. She manages the Three Broomsticks (can't remember if they give it another name in the videogame though), and is this heroic warrior who helps you massively through a tricky moment and basically saves your arse.

Anyway, if there's any specific question about the game you've got, I'm here

Honestly I think people are overreacting. If you don't want to play it then don't play it. It's a fucking video game lol.

 

[Mr Processor]

They keep claiming that there was a huge massacre of Jewish people in 1612 and that's why the horn is so significant and so Obviously a shofar... but not only does it not resemble other shofars in any meaningful way (from what I can see they tend to be quite twisty, while the horn in the game is not), but the massacre they're referring to didn't happen until 1614. And only three people died, one of whom was one of the assailants. (Like... I'm not saying it wasn't awful, and bigoted, and probably horrible for the people who went through it, and Jewish people are free to consider it a major event, but objectively calling it a "massacre" is kind of a stretch.) It's honestly hard to imagine they don't know they're lying, because you can find all of this information, from multiple sources, in one Google search.

Someone pointed out on Tumblr, but it's far more likely the date is meant to align with the Pendle Witch Trials, one of the most famous witch trials in all of British history. It makes a lot more sense.

Regardless, the reference is so obscure that it makes zero sense to claim this is somehow propaganda meant to radicalize people into hating Jews, like the troons are all claiming it does. Nobody is looking at that horn and thinking "hey this looks like an obscure medieval Jewish horn!" No one is seeing the date 1612 and thinking "ahh yes, the year of the Fettmilch Uprising, surely this is intended to make me think genociding Jewish people is okay because they genocided Jewish people in 1612" not least because (repeating for emphasis) the Fettmilch Uprising didn't happen until 1614 and the dude who led it was hanged like two years later for doing it which is hardly an endorsement of anti-Jewish violence. No one is seeing cheese stuffed in a horn and thinking "OF COURSE! This specific kind of cheese isn't kosher and obviously this is a coded message about shutting up Jewish people and tainting them with non-kosher foods, not a mere example of being comically specific for a joke effect!" If this is supposed to be propaganda, it's remarkably bad at it. The point of propaganda is to make people who aren't already hateful hate a specific group of people and want to act against them, you don't accomplish that with extremely vague, coded messages that no one but the most absurdly sensitive, terminally online and historically nerdy member of the group you want to make people hate would ever understand them. That's not how propaganda works.

But honestly... this should have been expected. Trans activists lie, and blatantly, every single day. The 41% statistic is bullshit. The "epidemic of trans murders" is bullshit, trans people are less likely to be murdered than literally every other group. And so on. They lie because they don't have any real truth to back them up and they know it. It's really annoying when they lie about verifiable historical facts, though, like damn guys, maybe try lying about something I can't google.

It's not surprising that trans activists lie every day, their whole existence is a lie. They are playing dirty to win. Because if they win through the "this game is anti-semitic lie," well, they still win. To be honest, I was surprised someone as generally woke as Rowling (except when it comes to feminist issues that contradict the trans orthodoxy) didn't have anything prominently Jewish in her novels that I could point to as, "See, here's a place where the Harry Potter books are pro-Jewish," but I only have a casual knowledge of her books. (I mean this is the woman who endorsed black Hermione in a stage play about grown up Harry Potter, after all.)

Though, I mean clearly Rowling is a secret follower of Adolf Hitler and I'm sure that if you read the coded messages in her books they spell out the 14 words (or something about worshiping Satan, one or the other).

 

[McSchlomo]

It's not surprising that trans activists lie every day, their whole existence is a lie. They are playing dirty to win. Because if they win through the "this game is anti-semitic lie," well, they still win. To be honest, I was surprised someone as generally woke as Rowling (except when it comes to feminist issues that contradict the trans orthodoxy) didn't have anything prominently Jewish in her novels that I could point to as, "See, here's a place where the Harry Potter books are pro-Jewish," but I only have a casual knowledge of her books. (I mean this is the woman who endorsed black Hermione in a stage play about grown up Harry Potter, after all.)

Though, I mean clearly Rowling is a secret follower of Adolf Hitler and I'm sure that if you read the coded messages in her books they spell out the 14 words (or something about worshiping Satan, one or the other).

Worshiping Satan would be the ONE thing that would get her back in their good graces, lets be honest here.

And the review by "a mixed race women with jewish roots" just turned me the fuck off of the the game btw. Tranny characters, lesbian marriage, all the other bullshit. Wouldn't be that bad if the game didn't play in the time it does. The only thing they're missing is that my 15 year old apparently can't have sex with older people in their 40s, as long as they're queer.

Thats all you had to do, trannies. Let me realize how "progressive" the game actually is, and I'm already turned off. Now I'm actually mainly gonna buy it to FUCK you.

 

[Tilapia]

To be honest, I was surprised someone as generally woke as Rowling (except when it comes to feminist issues that contradict the trans orthodoxy) didn't have anything prominently Jewish in her novels that I could point to as, "See, here's a place where the Harry Potter books are pro-Jewish," but I only have a casual knowledge of her books.

The Death Eaters are Nazis, Muggleborns are Jews, and the Order of the Phoenix is Anti-Nazi Resistance.

I am not sure how this escaped you.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

That’s some cope right there. It’s her IP, of course she’s making money off of it. You think she does it out of the kindness of her heart?

No shit. What I'm saying is that the devs specifically said she herself wasn't directly involved with it. From what I've seen the bitching over her getting royalties from it only started gaining traction once the game came out.

Her profiting from it doesn't really matter to me because she gives away a lot of her money anyway. It's all pointless sperging from troons over nothing really. She will be rich until the day she dies regardless.

 

[The REAL Hatsune Miku]

The internet says men age better than women but 50-pushing-60 Joanne looks pretty good compared to these barely thirty-year-old goblins.
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Must be the lack of unnatural hormones and unmistakably male facial structure, who coulda known?

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

"Aren't you the fag who lied about getting raped by Kevin Spacey?"

He's also the guy from that pretentious Rent musical that was better when Team America parodied it.

 

[InsulindianPhasmid]

No shit. What I'm saying is that the devs specifically said she herself wasn't directly involved with it. From what I've seen the bitching over her getting royalties from it only started gaining traction once the game came out.

Her profiting from it doesn't really matter to me because she gives away a lot of her money anyway. It's all pointless sperging from troons over nothing really. She will be rich until the day she dies regardless.

Some of JKR’s known philanthropy:

• Founded and funded the charity Lumos (to support children who live in a Ukrainian orphanage)
• Donates to MS Scotland in memory of her mother, who had multiple sclerosis
• Donated the profits from her first detective novel Cuckoo’s Calling to a veteran’s charity
• Supports single parent families through the charity Gingerbread
• Founded and is funding Beira’s Place, the only single sex rape crisis centre in Scotland.
• Helped fund the evacuation of many female lawyers and their families from Afghanistan.

This isn’t everything, just the stuff that immediately springs to mind. Another thing which is mentioned less but is hugely significant is that Rowling hasn’t offshored her wealth. Unlike most of our mega rich she remains a UK tax payer at an eye watering rate, presumably because she believes in contributing financially to the country she actually lives in.

The fact the allegedly left wing and progressive hate this woman with all their hearts is wild to me. She seems to be that rarest of things, a multi millionaire “philanthropist” who actually is using her vast wealth to help those in need in very material ways, instead of via some shifty “foundation” like the Gates’. None of the causes she actively supports are particularly fashionable either- rather, they are things seem to matter deeply to her because she didn’t come from wealth.