- Joined
- Mar 23, 2022
[KF went down for me, so I'm late, but I wrote my own recap]
The Witch Trials of JK Rowling
So the video nobody expected and even fewer people asked for: The Witch Trials of JK Rowling.
Interesting, because in a livestream, Parrott literally said that he didn’t like making topical videos because his output is so slow that by the time he wants to discuss a current event, said current event is obsolete or has been disproven.
Now, early thoughts. You begin the video and see a throwback costume to the glamourous decadent drapery and getup of the JK Rowling video, but the contrast is striking.
I personally thought Parrott’s costume in JK Rowling was one of his most elegant ones, but the 2023 remake was an actual jump scare. He looks genuinely sick, discoloured, and puffy in places. And that’s only the beginning. There are four or five different costumes in this video—not out of the ordinary for him—but each one is the bear minimum and irrelevant to every scene. Furthermore, the sets have very little detail, and almost no background music is used. This was clearly a last-minute production—a hack job, as one kiwi assessed—wherein he seems to have freaked out over the JK Rowling witch trials process, slapped together a 50 paged essay, filmed for a few hours, and speedily edited it into a two-hour-long ramble that lasted ten times as long as it should have.
So as you can guess from the title, the video is about the podcast Parrott participated in that tried to reveal the truth about JK Rowling outside the twitter drama defaming JK Rowling as a TERF, conservative, bigot, and Nazi. Parrott splits the video in about six or seven parts, but I’ll break it down into four.
First, Parrott goes on a long ramble about Anita Bryant and her activism against gay rights in the 1970s. He paints her into a demonic villain and then patronisingly offers, “But what if she was the victim?” and then juxtaposes this to JK Rowling. “Anita Bryant was so incredibly homophobic and bigoted that to see her as the victim of the situation is retarded,” he basically says. “This is just like JK Rowling.”
The second part of the video is Parrott denouncing the Witch Trials podcast, condemning Megan for being dishonest about the intention of the podcast, and condescending to Noah, the teen ftm who presented a disapproving but hopeful stance on JK Rowling.
The third part of the video is basically Parrott complaining that he, as a marginalised twans pesson, should not have to debate people in a civilised way over the supposed rights trans people are demanding. He spends about half an hour saying that marginalised claim a right to be uncivil and to expect them to be civil is simply privilege.
The final part is that debate does not work, and everyone should block JK Rowling instead of engaging with her. He shit-talks Megan Phelps-Roper for leaving the Westborro Baptist Church because, even though she managed to escape and has been trying to reverse her actions and share her story around the world, the only reason she escaped is because people convinced her nicely, and the only reason people convinced her nicely is because they thought she was hot. Parrott in fact mentions several different feminists, conservatives, and public figures and shits upon all of them in an extremely petty and insufferable way.
In conclusion, you are not missing anything by skipping this video. It felt complete after thirty minutes, when Anita Bryant had been discussed and the JK Rowling podcast had been denounced. Instead of calling it The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, it should simply be called Parrott’s current stance, Why You Should Never Debate Anyone Ever.
This video had a different feel than both the old ContraPoints videos from 2016-2017 where he made light-hearted energetic videos about white nationalism and Trump. In his videos about Trump and white nationalism, there is a bit of unnecessary alarm raised over Trump being "the worst President in American history" and "all immigrants are going to die" and such, but more jokes were sprinkled throughout, and he actually looked like he wanted to be there.
This video is clearly, "Oh, right, I'm ContraPoints, I make exorbitantly long videos about politics and culture and pander to my far-left Twittard audience. And I think I have nice sets and costumes? I don't remember."
The video also had a different feel than the videos from 2018-2022, where you could tell he was putting in so much effort that it was killing him. Sure, the arguments never held up, but the videos were ethereal, the costumes elaborate, and the tone and lighting hypnotic. I actually knew a friend who never watched his videos stumble upon one and express that it was noticeably hypnotic and a bit satanic.
This video has none of that. It's just as whiny as a Jessie Gender video and, even worse than that, Parrott disparages and elevates himself above every single person he talks about in this video.
@Itterasshai (can't quote you for some reason)
I agree with you; he's always pandered to a chronically online Twitter audience, whether it was disillusioned young men who believed in alpha males and that Donald Trumps was the messiah in 2016, or the same disillusioned men seven years later who are now radical communist trans cat girls who believe mis-gendering is literal violence.
The Witch Trials of JK Rowling
So the video nobody expected and even fewer people asked for: The Witch Trials of JK Rowling.
Interesting, because in a livestream, Parrott literally said that he didn’t like making topical videos because his output is so slow that by the time he wants to discuss a current event, said current event is obsolete or has been disproven.
Now, early thoughts. You begin the video and see a throwback costume to the glamourous decadent drapery and getup of the JK Rowling video, but the contrast is striking.
I personally thought Parrott’s costume in JK Rowling was one of his most elegant ones, but the 2023 remake was an actual jump scare. He looks genuinely sick, discoloured, and puffy in places. And that’s only the beginning. There are four or five different costumes in this video—not out of the ordinary for him—but each one is the bear minimum and irrelevant to every scene. Furthermore, the sets have very little detail, and almost no background music is used. This was clearly a last-minute production—a hack job, as one kiwi assessed—wherein he seems to have freaked out over the JK Rowling witch trials process, slapped together a 50 paged essay, filmed for a few hours, and speedily edited it into a two-hour-long ramble that lasted ten times as long as it should have.
So as you can guess from the title, the video is about the podcast Parrott participated in that tried to reveal the truth about JK Rowling outside the twitter drama defaming JK Rowling as a TERF, conservative, bigot, and Nazi. Parrott splits the video in about six or seven parts, but I’ll break it down into four.
First, Parrott goes on a long ramble about Anita Bryant and her activism against gay rights in the 1970s. He paints her into a demonic villain and then patronisingly offers, “But what if she was the victim?” and then juxtaposes this to JK Rowling. “Anita Bryant was so incredibly homophobic and bigoted that to see her as the victim of the situation is retarded,” he basically says. “This is just like JK Rowling.”
The second part of the video is Parrott denouncing the Witch Trials podcast, condemning Megan for being dishonest about the intention of the podcast, and condescending to Noah, the teen ftm who presented a disapproving but hopeful stance on JK Rowling.
In the podcast, Noah’s transition story is disturbing. She admits that as a child, she was traditionally feminine, so her parents were surprised when she later came out as trans. She suffered from anxiety, depression, and dissatisfaction for most of her teen years and saw multiple therapists who one by one all pressured Noah’s parents into letting the teen take testosterone and have top surgery before she turned eighteen. To make matters worse, Noah does not present any symptoms of gender dysphoria, nor does she claim to. When describing her experience as a girl, she says she grew up enjoying traditionally feminine things, but adolescence and puberty were when things started to go wrong. At first, she really wanted to become a woman and thought that she would feel better once puberty was over and she had a fully adult female body. But then she felt worse, and it was her therapists who told her that she was trans. Noah says that her parents were not on board with her transition until more than one therapist basically bullied them into consenting the mutilation of their daughter. Noah should never have transitioned and is going to be a miserable and lost adult when she’s forced to live in the world as a man and may eventually opt for the nonbinary rout before attempting to detransition.
The third part of the video is basically Parrott complaining that he, as a marginalised twans pesson, should not have to debate people in a civilised way over the supposed rights trans people are demanding. He spends about half an hour saying that marginalised claim a right to be uncivil and to expect them to be civil is simply privilege.
The final part is that debate does not work, and everyone should block JK Rowling instead of engaging with her. He shit-talks Megan Phelps-Roper for leaving the Westborro Baptist Church because, even though she managed to escape and has been trying to reverse her actions and share her story around the world, the only reason she escaped is because people convinced her nicely, and the only reason people convinced her nicely is because they thought she was hot. Parrott in fact mentions several different feminists, conservatives, and public figures and shits upon all of them in an extremely petty and insufferable way.
In conclusion, you are not missing anything by skipping this video. It felt complete after thirty minutes, when Anita Bryant had been discussed and the JK Rowling podcast had been denounced. Instead of calling it The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, it should simply be called Parrott’s current stance, Why You Should Never Debate Anyone Ever.
This video had a different feel than both the old ContraPoints videos from 2016-2017 where he made light-hearted energetic videos about white nationalism and Trump. In his videos about Trump and white nationalism, there is a bit of unnecessary alarm raised over Trump being "the worst President in American history" and "all immigrants are going to die" and such, but more jokes were sprinkled throughout, and he actually looked like he wanted to be there.
This video is clearly, "Oh, right, I'm ContraPoints, I make exorbitantly long videos about politics and culture and pander to my far-left Twittard audience. And I think I have nice sets and costumes? I don't remember."
The video also had a different feel than the videos from 2018-2022, where you could tell he was putting in so much effort that it was killing him. Sure, the arguments never held up, but the videos were ethereal, the costumes elaborate, and the tone and lighting hypnotic. I actually knew a friend who never watched his videos stumble upon one and express that it was noticeably hypnotic and a bit satanic.
This video has none of that. It's just as whiny as a Jessie Gender video and, even worse than that, Parrott disparages and elevates himself above every single person he talks about in this video.
@Itterasshai (can't quote you for some reason)
I agree with you; he's always pandered to a chronically online Twitter audience, whether it was disillusioned young men who believed in alpha males and that Donald Trumps was the messiah in 2016, or the same disillusioned men seven years later who are now radical communist trans cat girls who believe mis-gendering is literal violence.
