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Fuck Rowling. You matter 🏳️⚧️
Wow, the PDF was scrubbed thoroughly from the net. archive.is doesn’t have it (just a screenshot of the first page), archive.org has removed it …
Has anyone managed to find the original PDF elsewhere?
the document was named
“Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf”
EDIT: Found a copy elsewhere. https://wingsoverscotland.com/Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf
I haven’t read it yet and thus have no opinions on it. But I object to Orwellian memory-holing, so f*ck censorship.
More info:
Around the same time, Sex Matters, one of the organisations identified in the report, announced publicly that it had challenged Amnesty’s publication and suggested that, had the report remained online, it would have brought defamation proceedings. Amnesty has not said whether its review is connected to that correspondence.
Holy shit. That’s dark.
A tangible example of where the money people spend on harry potter goes.
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Which is weird because there are much better books to read. There are even books that don’t start to completely fall apart when you think about them for more than five minutes. There’s yet more books where they’ve done a basic amount of research of how names work in different cultures so that they don’t make mistakes like “Victor Krum, the Bulgarian”.
I think the issue is that a lot of the fan base got into it before the mold got to Rowling. It’s hard to pull away, and easy to look past the issues like that Victor Krum sentence, or having the Irish kid be the one always blowing up, or (insert other item that can reasonably be viewed as a stereotype when you remove your rose colored glasses).
Especially if you were part of the midnight releases for the books or movies (do they even do those anymore?).
Most especially when viewed in the light that most people are detached from this discourse entirely. Old fans likely view the series through their eyes when they were younger.
That being said, I think it’s morally important to not put money into it. If you hold it close to your heart already: there’s no need to buy more HP merch. If you don’t already own the books: use a library or borrow from a friend if you feel the urge to read it. If you don’t like it or want to give people alternatives in the genre: advertise alternatives without mentioning HP at all.
I’m not rationalizing this as acceptable. I’m just taking time to talk about the mindset. It’s similar to the mindset that people have when it comes to other social issues related to our purchase habits, and I think that’s the reason why it’s important to understand.
I unfortunately can’t understand this viewpoint of it. There’s a myriad of other things which people enjoyed as children which they grow out of naturally, lose interest in, dive into something better, or abandon when it comes apparent that people involved were awful. It’s not difficult to pull away from it unless, perhaps, you made it your entire personality which is indicative of much more serious issues.
To understand the viewpoint: think of the products you feel like you justifiably have to buy that support evil corporations that also donate to political orgs that go against rights. A $20 book (or <$70 box set) costs less than the amount of money most people put towards buying Coca-Cola products. And this can be difficult to change when you’re used to certain products, especially if you don’t know about the trouble from their corporations/parent corps/etc.
The banality of evil, yo. Our society has structural problems and people can’t pay attention to all of it.
Let them know (politely) how cowardly they are, why you won’t support them, and why you’ll tell everyone you know not to support them: https://www.amnesty.org/en/about-us/contact/
Dude. They are a great organization. This isn’t their fault. Don’t be a fuck.
And yet they bent the knee to fascist groups
It’s worse than before now, because they apologised to a genocidal bigot. The BBC is reporting the TERF side of the story with no opposition.
No they aren’t, yes it is, cry about it
I doubt you even know who they are or what they have done.
It looks like what they’ve done is capitulate to transphobic bigots.
I’m painfully aware of them, constantly used to justify US foreign policy, they have always sucked ass, this is not surprising at all for anyone who has been paying attention
I still have some contacts in Amnesty from when I went through sone interview rounds for a position I didn’t end up taking. They all seemed pretty friendly and direct, and like they’d be strongly opposed to this. Kinda tempted to mail them to see whether they have anything to say.
Do it!
Huge nothing burger. Dude replied pretty quick, but it was just standard “isn’t authorised to comment on the issue” stuff. Can’t blame him, I guess. Entirely different department in an entirely different country.
It used to be illegal to do that sort of thing
crazy how hatsune miku wrote the entirety of the harry potter series, such an icon.
also, fuck Rowling. May she lose all relevance sooner rather than later.
Hatsune Miku is a racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, fatphobic, anti-intellectual chud. Her Harry Potter books defend slavery, belittle women and reading, and have no political or cultural competency or creativity. Hatsune Miku is a deeply problematic and harmful writer.
I especially hated the scene Hatsune Miku wrote, in which it’s Christmas at Grimmauld Place, so Harry and the gang dress up the severed slave heads in little Santa hats and beards.
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You mean Robert Galbraith, the holocaust denier?
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People understand what a jihad is, but most also understand that the average muslim is more likey to die at the hands of a jihadist than a jew, christian, buddhist or hindu is… but Israel is being run by a man with a world of legal peril over his head amd as long as he’s got an active war and the support of the white nationalists in his own country, he can stay in power. Sound familiar? Peas in a pod and all that.
Yup. Jihadists killing everybody.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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What a fucking waste.
Never wanted to look into it, now I had to scroll her Twitter to see that response of her is genuine, now I am mentally unstable.
Disclaimer: it might be the Twitter experience all in all, I usually do not set foot in that realm.
Thanks JK Rowling.
OF COURSE all the press support she gets is from the Telegraph, aka the Daily Telegraph, paper owned by Axel Springer Konzern, which gives its best award to Peter fucking Thiel.
@Quokka Holy fuck I hadn’t heard this.
I can’t believe Amnesty folded. A new stage of the apocalypse unlocked.
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I hope one of the bigots she has empowered mistakes her for a trans woman and follows her into a restroom.
That drawing of Rowling is not nearly hideous enough if the aim is to portrait her character
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Fuck
Amnesty international has been shit for a while, they have some Ws but they always help manufacture consent for war and then say “oopsie, didn’t know it wasn’t true that comically evil fabrication wasn’t true”
Also, NATO.
