The Erasure of Rowling begins.
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The left is so vicious. It makes me glad they go after another leftist with so much passion. At least it kind of brought a different point of view on the cancel culture and how easily can go against them.
Do any of you think there are leftists out there (full leftists not center left) that can realize how intolerant they are against those with even a bit of different ideas or that their version of diversity is the most superficial and racist form of diversity that we can have? I doubt they will ever realize that but is nice to daydream.
Step 1: Declare target intolerant.
Step 2: Repeat mantra about how you can't tolerate intolerance.
Step 3: Continue burning the witch.
And at that point, people have to be reminded-
A) When literally everything that doesn’t follow progressive doctrine is considered intolerance, is it really the non-progressives that are intolerant at this point?
B) City blocks full of completely innocent businesses have been burned down daily for the past three months. It’s not the non-progressives burning them down. Who is being intolerant here?
I see people make this sort of argument a lot but I don't think it's a winning proposition. Intolerance is a good thing. The entire reason why this cultural war was even allowed to happen in the first place is that normal people have been conditioned to tolerate all kinds of horrifyingly degenerate shit, and the degenerates will never stop, they will always demand more, because tolerance is weakness and they know it.
The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.
At this point the average person's answer to a hairy man in a dress demanding access to women's bathroom is "well I'd rather you wouldn't, but I tolerate your viewpoint I guess". The mainstream view of tolerance is now "I shall bend over and take it", and that's not how you achieve anything productive. Being intolerant means nothing holding people up to some very basic standards; don't be afraid to do that. Be the most intolerant person you know. Don't even tolerate your own failings.
On the up-side, if book stores stop stocking Harry Potter and the whackjob SJWs do end up canceling her, maybe they'll finally actually read a different fucking book.
Australia, not even once. :(
This sounds like a publicity stunt more then anything else.
It's one loony with an independent bookstore in the suburbs acting like the kind of person who starts up an independent bookstore in the suburbs. If it was Angus & Robertson (RIP A&R) or Borders (RIP Borders) doing this I'd be more concerned.
I thought it was the biggest chain in Australia that banned Jordan Peterson's book a few years back? That's why I'm willing to make this an Australian issue at large. There's a censorship theme.
I'll be interested to see if they can erase Harry Potter or just try to cut her away from it as much as they can. For whatever strange reason Harry Potter is like a core identity trait to these delusional people.
They'll probably cut her out the same way they cut Notch out of Minecraft.
Notch 100% sold Minecraft, and the terms did not leave an obligation to credit him. I’m pretty sure Rowling has done nothing of the sort, so trying anything like that is outright IP theft.
Aren't they already cutting her out? I think video game companies making Harry Potter games have twice now proudly stated that Rowling is not involved in the games in any way, in response to people 'concerned' about her role in light of her being Hitler.
Yeah now that I think of it they did do that. It's not a game that I followed much.
She still owns the IP though, so she will still get paid. I don't think the Harry Potter-ites will be willing to skip the game or quit buying merchandise. By these people I mean the near 30 year olds that put "Gryffindor" on their Twitter profile next to their pronouns.
*gag*
I will give the owner credit: this is barely a cancellation. She's not even refusing to sell you a copy of Harry Potter if you ask for one, she just won't buy one in advance, and will donate the profit to what she thinks is a worthy charity. She's on the wrong side of history but I don't think she's a bad person, just misinformed.
This is one of the many problems with the right. Both sides project. Liberals think conservatives are evil, and conservatives think liberals are misguided or stupid. Thus liberals are evil and conservitives are stupid. It shows up time and time again.
Sino Delenda Est
I'm not projecting, I'm judging an individual by her own actions. The violent psychopaths burning down Democrat cities are evil, a shop owner who isn't even refusing to order you the book she disagrees with is not.
Then judge her by her actions: repeating tranny propaganda, and asking for books promoting tranny degeneracy.
Remember these are the pedos putting drag queen story hours in our public libraries.
A bunch of people ask the store to order these books.
The store spends all their time dealing with these orders.
All the money they make goes to charity
They go out of business
who cares i buy my books from amazon and only old books because modern books are leftist sjw shit.
Oh boy I can't wait to read what kind of nut job conspiracy you have for this one.