When asked why the British author's views on trans people aligned with the Nazis, and Rowling said that Nazis did not persecute trans people.

The most famous forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism tend to focus on Jews, casting doubt, for example, on how many were exterminated in the camps. But denying the impact the Nazis had on the other groups they targeted, including queer and trans people, disabled people and Romani people, is still Holocaust denial. Maybe someone should tell J.K. Rowling.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    265·
    9 months ago

    Why did you decide to insult me? Did I insult you? Did I make a personal attack?

    And I guess I’m not part of “all you guys” because I always thought that about the Ferengi.

    Also, what did I want to remove and from where? Please show where I said I wanted to remove something.

    As far as the goblins not being antisemitic-

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/j-k-rowling-s-harry-potter-goblins-echo-jewish-caricatures-ncna1287043

    https://www.popdust.com/gringotts-warner-bros-2627451691.html

    Not just her books, even the games based on them-

    https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/hogwarts-legacy-antisemitism-goblins-horn/

    Did she do it intending to be antisemitic? I don’t know, but it hardly matters.

    Maybe I have the intelligence of a brick, but at least I don’t tell lies about people like you did about me.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
      852·
      9 months ago

      You’ve made a personal attack against the author of one book I consider not terribly bad.

      As far as the goblins not being antisemitic-

      Somebody wrote an article and I’m supposed to assume that person is right and I’m wrong?

      I’ll quote the title seen even in the link you provided - “HP goblins echo Jewish caricatures”. Have you considered even once that Jewish caricatures too did echo something aesthetically familiar? Or that the folklore I’m talking about grew intertwined with antisemitic beliefs?

      Medieval-style fairy-tales always touch this subject.

      And then this

      Did she do it intending to be antisemitic? I don’t know, but it hardly matters.

      and this

      Maybe I have the intelligence of a brick,

      form a syllogism.

      Yes, it definitely matters, because to get rid of each and every antisemitic or similar (“middleman minority” etc) stereotype manifesting itself unintentionally you’d simply have to burn European-cultured countries with nukes and start from scratch.

      Also I’m Jewish.