Back when she was something, Rowling’s attention to human rights inspired me to do better, and even to try and start a career working with human rights NGOs.
It’s insane to me how she’s come right around and is now attacking what she once stood for, and using the might of her wealth to do it (something she also used to despise).
Voldemort got the giants on his side (other than Grawp) by promising them equal rights. The Ministry of Magic is very oppressive towards magical creatures, and this is intended by the author. Dumbledore points it out after he and voldemort wreck the wizard supremacist statue. So Voldemort is (dishonestly) promising equality to the giants to get them to revolt. The giants want equal rights.
So at the end of the last book, Harry kills Voldemort. And the giants lose their rebellion and go back to being excluded from society and denied the right to wands. And the final line before the epilogue is “all was well”.
Rowling is savvy enough to identify problems in society, but she cannot write stories about solving problems in society, because she doesn’t know how. She doesn’t understand human rights. She never stood for improving rights.
She was working for Amnesty international when she came up with the book idea.
And the books are filled with examples of the need for human rights. She had clearly spent a lot of time on the topic, and cared enough to make them a core part of the books.
Sirius’s lack of a trial, the forbidden curses (torture, slavery, death). Rita Skeeter and Dolores Umbridge taught me about media propaganda and the creep and pomposity of authoritarianism.
Yeah she wasn’t great at follow through but in the early days, the hope was there.
Also, they’re kids’ books. They’re supoosed to introduce concepts to the reader, not analyse or prosthetylise over them.
The Owl House is a kids show, yet Luz Noceda manages to completely reform the demon realm’s education system and government. It is possible for heroes to actually improve the world they inhabit to a better standard than when they found it. Harry just didn’t do that.
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.
That same week she posted an upskirt picture of a woman in retaliation for her refusing to debate
shes essentially like a right wing christian group/think tank providing legal expertise for free for anyone wanting to challenge pro-lgbtq+, or anything evangelicals dont like legislation in the states. SEE KIM DAVIS, shes being bankrolled by so many groups.
She’s using all of that Harry Potter money to create a brave new world. She’s not so different from the rest of the stinking, filthy rich. She was once poor and she should be championing the poor, not stepping on fellow humans.
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.
Praying St Luigi.
Fuck amnesty international
But mostly fuck JR Rowling, the anti-rights crusader.
Is there some reason you’ve misspelled it, which I’m missing ?
It’s not their fault. The laws of the UK literally let a billionaire bully anyone who says anything mean about them, no matter how honest or true, into issuing an apology.
Amnesty International UK did the same thing that (a theoretical) Amnesty International Iran or Amnesty International North Korea would have done, which is give an empty apology when threatened with facing government retaliation.
The UK is not a country with free speech.
AmNAZI International
😥
I wonder what has to go through a persons head when they threaten to fight amnesty international?
I mean I don’t believe AI is impartial when it comes to geopolitics and providing cover for war and invasions and conflicts, but they are still mostly on mission.
Probably I have billions and a single minded goal to ruin the rights of trans people and make their lives miserable.
Someone needs to find a way to stand up to that woman in a meaningful way.
Also shame on amnesty for capitulation.
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.
Thanks for the PDF, looks like it’s my RPi seedbox’s time to shine!
EDIT: Here’s the magnet link for anyone interested :3, it’s not like UK lawsuits have any effect here(unless Italy has a secret treaty with the MI6 or some shit). Anyone can help me seed?
Adding now
Thanks :3
Holy shit. That’s dark.
What a bunch of cowards.
They talk about human rights and post evidently empty shit like “We exist so that a world where everyone can live freely, fairly and with dignity is possible”, but fold like a wet napkin when Rowling threatens legal action.
Good to know that we can’t rely on AMNESTY to protect basic human rights anymore.
Fucking hell, we are absolutely fucked, aren’t we?
When Amnesty reported on Ukraine but stayed silent over what Russia was doing in the special military operation, they already lost a lot of credibility.
A tangible example of where the money people spend on harry potter goes.
people are still defending her, because they cant let go off the HP franchise.
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.
Its why I am absoutely disgusted by anyone who spends money on it.
