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I listened to the Lolita podcast and it’s a great one hosted by someone who was a fan of the work and it made an impact on her.
It seems so many interpret the story of Lolita to be a tragic love story like Kubrick and it seems Rowling. It seems as though the more sensible interpretation would be a story about abuse and power where you’re made to empathize with the unreliable narrator, Humbert. I always get an ick when I hear people say it’s a love story.
Is this all true? Jesus Christ, this Epstein corruption spread everywhere.
until further notice assume every billionaire is implicated
The fourth point is grammatically a bit awkward; not sure what it’s saying
so. epstein’s cover story as a finacier was that if you wanted to get a thing funded or to get a project in front of someone who could greenlight it, you could go to him and he could introduce you. he was referred to as a matchmaker for money. the reality of course it turned out is that he was who oligarchs went to when they wanted to fuck a vulnerable child from the global south. so when people went to him to introduce them to someone else, how he knew whoever it was was from his experience as a professional sex pest.
I hate to be that person, is there a source for each bit of info? This is def something I’d like to come back to in future references.
Yeah I hate Rowlings antics as much as the next lemming, but I’ll never understand why posts like these have no references. I don’t even take them seriously, the burden of proof is on the poster, not the reader.
Every claim should come with a direct link or reference.
Thanks for saying that! Was reading it and obviously not a fan of either named people, IMHO public death penalty should be brought back for preventing the course of justice! But wild accusations and click bait.
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburghs-jk-rowling-hits-back-33355200
Some news sources have picked it up.
She’s denying it, but Steve Bannon denied knowing anything, when he worked directly with Epstein on a propaganda piece to get people to forget that he was a child sex trafficker. Rowling also just had her super yacht removed from all marine traffic services, no AIS, no port logs, nothing.
But TLDR, numbers 1, 3, and 4 have just been found in the Epstein files.
The others are also verifiable.
JK Rowling’s bookshelf
Crucially, the invitation to JKR’s play came in 2018, when Epstein was already in jail. You have to be a special kind of dumb to still invite him to a public event at that point. Compared to that, Bill Clinton’s contacts in 2002-2003 have pretty decent plausible deniability - it’s at least possible that he didn’t know that Epstein was a pedo rapist + pedo pimp, since that was before any accusations against him became public.
Clinton knew. He had briefs from US intelligence, even after out of office, a practice the current president stopped as I understand, The best news service in the world.
I was too young and innocent to understand the evils of this world when I fell in love with the books. They were my escape in otherwise a shit childhood. I hate the author, but I cannot hate the stories that made my childhood better.
I mean I loved Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game and the get turned out to be a right-wing loon. It doesn’t change how I feel about the book.
You’re allowed to look back fondly while being aware of the problems. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Life is full of nuance.
Similarly, I enjoyed the movies even though the books weren’t my personal style. A whole lot of people were a part of that who don’t share any of her views or knew the type of person she was at the time.
Shoutout to when she made a character that gets mocked for wanting to end slavery and then cast a black woman to play her
Hermione Granger? But she’s not black… am I missing the joke somewhere?
Someone already explained, but the joke was mostly about the retroactive optics of two white teenage boys telling a black woman she’s being annoying about anti-slavery activism which… yeah
Huh, never knew. I always assumed it was Emma Watson who narrated it.
It was the original run of cursed child in London that she was Hermione
Don’t remind me of that work. Somehow the witch managed to produce a work rivalling the terribilit of her transphobia.
IIRC there are only a couple characters who have their ethnicity specified in the books. But it has been a while since I read them.
There’s a lot to be against here, but to me, that last one is especially bad
…,… theres no reason to beat peeps over the head with it.,… I don’t like this whole
told u sothing peeps like to do…,…imean- yea, preddi awful—obviously—
the potterheads sounds more like an insult in this context,.,…
Yeah I thought JK Rowling being a bigoted sac of shit was fairly well known so I just assume anyone who’s a fan of her works just doesn’t mind her bigotry and therefore aren’t really worth interacting with. But I suppose there’s people who learn new things every day.
Also, Potterheads is the self applied name for the fans.
This is why the post focuses on her connections to Epstein and white supremacists. They might not care about transphobia, but being an ally of Epstein is broadly seen as bad unless you’re a cultist or a pedophile.
The books and films meant a lot to a lot of people, and I can’t blame people for loving the world she created for them.
I don’t regret having read the books and seen the films. But I’m also done with her and will never give her money again.
The books message seems at odds with what she is now. I think her position on trans rights was challenged, and she dug in, and was attacked harder, and she joined those that supported her, and was thrown into extremism. That said it seem she was epstein friendly before all of this, so, wtf.
I like her work. It’s a pretty large part of my childhood. I very much oppose her views though and I will not pay for anything that benefits her financially.
I loved Harry Potter. My whole family did. We had arguments over who got to read the new book first when it arrived. We were all deeply, deeply invested in the lore and the stories and the characters. We watched all the movies together. It was one of the few things that the whole family enjoyed. Something we could all share in together.
But no one loved it as much as my Gran. She was the biggest potterhead you have ever met. I have a photo of her dressed up in her Gryffindor colours at Potterworld, grinning like a lunatic with excitement. She bought every version of every book, every paperback, every hard cover, every audiobook. She was crazy about it.
So after the stroke, when she was lying in hospital dying, when she couldn’t speak, could barely move, we went to the hospital every day, and I read Harry Potter to her. And I’d feel her give my hand the faintest squeeze, and see the tiniest twitch of a smile when I got to the best parts.
I cannot describe how precious those memories are to me. They were the last moments I got to share with an absolutely incredible person, and those books were a lifeline in that bleak moment. A source of joy and comfort when we all needed it most. A brief shining light in her last days. So however important those books are to you, believe me, I get it.
And I still walked away from everything to do with that world and those stories, and never looked back, because no matter how much they mean to me, they don’t mean as much as the trans people in my life do.
I mean I also used to like libertarians and the church of Satan as a kid too
What has the church of Satan done other than be awesome?
You’re likely mixing up the church of Satan with the satanic temple. https://satanismtoday.net/articles/difference-between-church-of-satan-and-satanic-temple/
That’s very possible.
Yeah, I was a member of the church of Satan in highschool, now a member of The satanic Temple as an adult.
ohgosh thus is another one if those… topics where ur not allowed to be a centrist, hm? >v<
i feel its reasonably easy to not know about it…,… maybe that’s just me tho—
EDIT: okay fair… that was being too general, I honestly don’t even read the whole post image and just the header and went like sigh-here we go again… which still very much paints me in a bad light, but oh well im not gonna remove the comment so peeps can see how evil and nefarious I am
You can be centrist, it just means you support pedophiles.
sigh fair— in this case ye
I don’t think I understand what you mean by “be a centrist” on this topic.
iguess what I mean is this:
- on the one hand - damn - transphobia bad obviously, also supporting evil-doers is bad obviously too
- but also woa do we really have to pull these topics into media consumption too?.. havent we already declared that theres no moral consumption under capitalism or whatever?..
so like -… gosh, this exact thing happens to me a lot… where both sides make total sense to me, even if I am on “one side”… but acknowledging the “oponents” points is already a bad thing,…
i remember peeps bein really angry about that one potter game— and like… yeah. sure. makes sense to not play it. but like… ubisoft is well known for having common sexual abuse and stuff in their offices, but most peeps still play that companies games…,…,
i didnt play it.,… but I found the whole discussion weirdly inflated… but like, in this case, with Epstine… well thats obviously going way beyond a simple onion 🧅 and… obviously shouldnt be supported and stuff----
wow thats a long comment
If you’re tired of hearing about how awful Rowling is, believe me, we’re even more tired of having to talk about it.
But despite everything, she continues to be an incredibly influential voice, especially in British politics, and she also continues to be staggeringly wealthy thanks to the money she makes from the ongoing exploitation of the Harry Potter brand. And she uses that money to directly fund attacks on trans rights. She’s successfully swayed major British supreme court decisions that have had a devastating impact on trans people in the UK, and her influence has been a not insignificant factor in the current British government’s absolutely feckless response to these tragedies.
My neice had to leave the UK just to get healthcare, and now refuses to return because she’s so scared of what that country has become. And she’s one of the lucky ones because her family had the resources to get her out. There are many, many far less privileged people in the UK literally dying from lack of care. And Rowling is doing everything in her power to make it worse.
Yes, I get that we often have to accept that we will consume and enjoy media by people we don’t like. I’m not going to yell at someone for still loving Sandman despite the heinous shit that Gaiman did. But there’s a difference here. Gaiman isn’t leading an army of rabid followers trying to legalize his right to rape people, and throwing millions of dollars at supporting that cause. He’s an awful person and I hope he disappears forever, but the harm is done. The story is out there. Anyone who does even the briefest Google search on the guy is going to know to stay the fuck away.
But with Rowling, even talking about her media without spending a penny on it is still actively supporting the popularity and wealth of a person who is using both to inflict mass carnage on trans people. She is literally costing lives every single day that she continues to be a wealthy and influential figure.
It must be exhausting interacting with 🇺🇲 peeps
hm, who r u referring to? >v<
im not merican…
I know.
You said “topics where you’re not allowed to be a centrist”
Which for Americans is basically every topic.
Must be frustrating dealing with us lol.
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