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[Muttley]

Relevancy fades quick; Elon Musk's twitter account tanked 90% in terms of engagements last year, despite the twitter purchase controversy. The last Harry Potter movie dropped in 2010, so Rowling hasn't been on an average person's radar for well over a decade. The fact that her new book sold only a handful of copies showcases just how little people care about her as opposed to her fantasy world. If you mention Rowling and controversial tweets in the same sentence, most of the normies who hear you will assume that you're talking about the "dumbledore gay" thing.

I was at my grandma's 80th birthday party today and she was talking about JK Rowling and the Hogwart's Legacy controversy and boycotts, etc.

She brought it up to her friends. I was in no way the instigator of them having this conversation.
But then again, she might not be the best example as her and her friends are all female and retired teachers.
So a woman and author like JK Rowling being vilified for caring about biological women to a bunch of retired female teachers, all of them who grew during the suffragette movement, might be something more relevant to their interests than your average normie.

 

[The handsome tard]

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[JustStopDude]

I am talking about her, you are correct she is not a leftist. However there was a movement in the west where they were highlighting countries led by women and how they didn’t start wars and outperformed male leaders. I brought up on a different gaming forum her charges and two admins mentioned how only “gamergate” sites were talking about that so i was clearly anti feminist and should be banned. They continued the talking point of women led countries and she just disappeared from the list. Some major UK news sites also modified their articles at the time without mentioning their edit. I was so baffled at the time because I wasn’t involved in Asian politics and just happened to hear about the scandal. I noticed other news things were became verboten and I decided fuck it and stopped being involved in.

It’s weird because for anyone who is knowledgeable about this it seems like a weird proxy battle to fight as the politics don’t align but I think they just assumed woman + minority = Western Leftist. I claim to know little about their culture but I was shocked at the lengths the admins went to delete their transgression and cover up for something that didn’t affect the site whatsoever because they believed I had gotten the “truth” from a source they believed I shouldn’t have accessed. I heard about it from a friend and obviously got some details mixed up along the way.

I don't mean to completely derail the thread, but

Spoiler: Sperging

this is something that a lot of people naturally do, which is try and convert or I guess comprehend situations in other countries into terms and concepts for the location they are used to.

The ROK is really weird, where you have massive corporate entities that are held by powerful families that control multiple industries and heavily influence government policies. People in the west complain about government bailouts well....you should see some of the bailouts these Korean mega corporations can land. And it's not like just heavy industry/farming/pharmaceuticals that have the power. Kpop is controlled by one or two powerful families and it's brutally exploitative.

This woman was the matriarch of one of the most powerful entities in the ROK and frankly, it's amazing she was ever successfully prosecuted, through she was later pardonned

 

[Left Ass Cheek]

a real jerk.

The worst part is the hypocrisy

 

[rastacat]

I see the account is now private. What a retard

 

[Oats12345]

It's the autism, low verbal IQ, bad at understanding social dynamics, incapable of self-reflection.

the pattern that this place has taught me is that not all autistic are trans but all trans are autistic

Than most trannies must be real low on the spectrum even the autistic people I know try to better themselves. The only ones who don't tend to be the real low spectrum people. So I'm assuming that's most trannies

 

[DumbDude43]

You don't see any LGBT overtones in the original books because it takes place in the 90's and it is a children's book series about a magical boarding school. If the absence of LGBT overtones, in that context, is "shocking, conservative and traditional" then you have a low bar.

Taking away Muggleborns' wands only makes sense as an allegory for gun control if wands were only used as weapons, but they are used for all kinds of magic, beyond self-defense. In order to be an equal participant in the Wizarding World, you need a wand. Taking away a Muggleborns' wand was Death Eaters sending the message that they were not equal.

Furthermore, there is plenty of restrictions on wand usage in the Harry Potter books. Goblins, house elves, etc. are not allowed to own wands. Students who are expelled from Hogwarts (Hagrid, for example) are not allowed to own wands. And each wizard is only allowed one wand. You are not allowed to stockpile them, the way that American gun enthusiasts tend to do. The reason that J.K. Rowling did not bog down her books with legal theory on when someone is or isn't allowed to use magic is because her primary audience, adolescent girls, would get bored.

The "traditionalist" character, Salazar Slytherin, is portrayed as evil and backwards. There is a wide variety of female characters and witches are not confined to "traditional" gender roles. The series celebrates and promotes diversity at every turn.

Harry Potter is a book series built on liberal value and anyone who argues otherwise is in denial.

bingo
rowling is and has always been a pretty hardcore sjw in every way imaginable. her getting mad at trannies is purely because the tranny issue is the first and only time where the progressive agenda actually impacts rowling herself, because she sees trannyism as an attack on her protected class status as a woman.
this does not suddenly make her based and redpilled, it just makes her a typical NIMBY wealthy urban liberal.

 

[Moss Monster]

What really gets me about all this controversy is that the Harry Potter IP is very beloved among true and honest women. I'd go as far as to claim that the wizard game is one of the most female dominant popular game releases that has ever launched in terms of player demographics, maybe even an all-time number one depending on how you measure it.

Of all the people I know that have bought this game, only one is a guy, and he's not straight. The rest are all feminist women, but they represent the "unwoke" working class flavor of feminists who don't spend enough time online to even know what a TERF is, or what Joker Rowling has been up to on twitter.

Relevancy fades quick; Elon Musk's twitter account tanked 90% in terms of engagements last year, despite the twitter purchase controversy. The last Harry Potter movie dropped in 2010, so Rowling hasn't been on an average person's radar for well over a decade. The fact that her new book sold only a handful of copies showcases just how little people care about her as opposed to her fantasy world. If you mention Rowling and controversial tweets in the same sentence, most of the normies who hear you will assume that you're talking about the "dumbledore gay" thing.

The trans activists can't even begin to comprehend this, because they're almost exclusively unemployed NEET men, polar opposites of the people who are excited to play the game. They're absolutely incapable of relating to their harassment targets because they have nothing in common with them.

It's just too much, watching these grown ass men who consider themselves the highly mature arbiters of morality going around shouting SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE like 4chan kids in 2007. At least the imageboard teenagers back then knew they were being silly (and didn't serve death threats/suicide baiting on the side, lmao)

Imagine being a woman who finds out about this controversy via getting spoiled/harassed by a person of gender (because you wanted to relive your teenage fantasy of receiving an invitation to hogwarts), then actually looking into Rowling's statements and seeing that she's an extremely left leaning feminist who's primary wrongthink is being afraid of trans people that harass women. Who do you think this hypothetical woman will side with at that point?

Harry Potter is literally Warhammer/Gundams for women.

 

[DumbDude43]

Harry Potter is literally Warhammer/Gundams for women.

not warhammer/gundam, but lord of the rings
and not for women, but for children
and a lot gayer
and a lot lower quality

 

[Angelic 2 the Core]

It's the autism, low verbal IQ, bad at understanding social dynamics, incapable of self-reflection.

I miss the old forum autistics that would write paragraphs that no one read about their favorite games and would have meltdowns and send nasty insults towards you if you played "mainstream console garbage" like Halo instead of Half-Life.

How did the innocent sperg forum posters from back then transform into radical leftist trannies and furries who are obsessed with woke culture and censoring everything? They might have been annoying back then but they weren't intolerable and they would at least debate with you. Now they just hit the "report" (wrongthink) button anytime you say something they disagree with and then the troon janny who reads it will ban you within seconds.

I also remember autistic types back then being against anything "mainstream", more individualized and now they're a hivemind who spend all day defending corporate, woke culture.

 

[ZatLit]

not warhammer/gundam, but lord of the rings
and not for women, but for children
and a lot gayer
and a lot lower quality

Lord of the rings is Gundam for retards

 

[Vic Viper T301]

I was at my grandma's 80th birthday party today and she was talking about JK Rowling and the Hogwart's Legacy controversy and boycotts, etc.

She brought it up to her friends. I was in no way the instigator of them having this conversation.
But then again, she might not be the best example as her and her friends are all female and retired teachers.
So a woman and author like JK Rowling being vilified for caring about biological women to a bunch of retired female teachers, all of them who grew during the suffragette movement, might be something more relevant to their interests than your average normie.

Similar here, my parents (who are in their 70s) and my sister were talking about how Elon Musk is ruining Twitter at Christmas. None of them even use Twitter, but celebrities and the mainstream news are complaining about it so they know who they're supposed to hate. I'm sure if I asked, my sister would have heard all about JK Rowling's fall from grace. This stuff is getting propagandized on mainstream media channels and the normies are getting their brains soaked with it.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Than most trannies must be real low on the spectrum even the autistic people I know try to better themselves.

My brother in Christ, they genuinely believe that taking hormonal pills will turn their drilled-out flesh pit into a real vagina, with female secretions and flora.

 

[canalCrab]

How did the innocent sperg forum posters from back then transform into radical leftist trannies and furries who are obsessed with woke culture and censoring everything?

Unironically, because leftists gave them a modicrum of positive support/feelings.

"yes, you totally pass"
"you look cute in drag" and such.

 

[Angelic 2 the Core]

My brother in Christ, they genuinely believe that taking hormonal pills will turn their drilled-out flesh pit into a real vagina, with female secretions and flora.

We used to call that mental illness.

 

[Oats12345]

My brother in Christ, they genuinely believe that taking hormonal pills will turn their drilled-out flesh pit into a real vagina, with female secretions and flora.

I agree with you. I was just saying they must be really low on the spectrum.

 

[Lyster]

Even if so D&D had literally jack and shit to do with that. Having a pogrom to kill cats would have made as much sense.

I will have to say, i never meet a normal person that played DnD, a few i know are sex pests. So maybe they were onto something

 

[whatever I feel like]

I am talking about her, you are correct she is not a leftist. However there was a movement in the west where they were highlighting countries led by women and how they didn’t start wars and outperformed male leaders. I brought up on a different gaming forum her charges and two admins mentioned how only “gamergate” sites were talking about that so i was clearly anti feminist and should be banned. They continued the talking point of women led countries and she just disappeared from the list. Some major UK news sites also modified their articles at the time without mentioning their edit. I was so baffled at the time because I wasn’t involved in Asian politics and just happened to hear about the scandal.

Her charges were absolute bullshit, they amounted to taking advice from the wrong person. It wasn't bribery, it wasn't corruption, it wasn't being a traitor (unlike those left-leaning lawmakers convicted of passing info on to North Korea a few years prior.) The whole scandal and trial was such ridiculous bullshit and could not have taken place outside of "the neurotic nation."

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Is hilarious that the thing that destroyed the wokes was not people shitposting on the internet or politicians but a video game about wizards

The things that take down things down are usually the things people least expect

 

[Tears In Rain]

The things that take down things down are usually the things people least expect

They grew up on the stupid Wizard shit, herald it as some masterwork, and compared reality constantly to it much like the retarded Star Wars super fans. In the end most of them are consoomers, it's like crack to them. No matter how hard they try to quit they get it anyway and then try to justify why they relapsed. "Oh I edited the books to remove her name." "Oh, I bought the collector's edition then smashed it up, see" Doesn't help that the game isn't total shit. Funny when that happens, the gameplay isn't spectacular but, the studio kept close to the lore of the franchise and it does well.