{"id":1171868,"date":"2021-12-30T07:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1171868"},"modified":"2021-12-30T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:49:29","slug":"british-newspaper-cancels-person-of-the-year-poll-after-j-k-rowling-runs-away-with-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-newspaper-cancels-person-of-the-year-poll-after-j-k-rowling-runs-away-with-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"British Newspaper Cancels \u2018Person Of The Year\u2019 Poll After J.K. Rowling Runs Away With Top Spot  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritish-newspaper-cancels-person-of-the-year-poll-after-j-k-rowling-runs-away-with-top-spot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1171868&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Readers of the British newspaper, The Guardian, are accusing the outlet of deactivating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/dec\/15\/tell-us-who-is-your-2021-person-of-the-year\">an online poll<\/a> that asked readers to vote on \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d after it became apparent that J.K. Rowling would handily win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell us: who is your 2021 person of the year?\u201d ran the headline, posted on Dec. 15, with the subtitle, \u201cTime Magazine chose billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk \u2013 but who would be your choice?\u201d A short time later, when Rowling was far and away in the lead, the voting form disappeared along with the results to that point. A message in small print stated, \u201cThis form has been deactivated and is closed to any further submissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowling has been at the center of numerous cancel culture storms this year for her refusal to deny the reality of biological sex. Earlier this month she stirred up controversy for mocking Scotland\u2019s law enforcement policy that allows accused rapists to self-identify as female. \u201cWar is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman,\u201d she tweeted in reference to an article titled, \u201cAbsurdity\u2019 of police logging rapists as women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously reported, trans activists have retaliated to her refusal to capitulate to their agenda by threatening to send her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jk-rowling-blasts-trans-activists-after-death-threat-this-movement-poses-no-risk-to-women-whatsoever\">pipe bombs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/j-k-rowling-speaks-out-after-doxxing-so-many-death-threats-i-could-paper-the-house\">publishing<\/a> her home address on social media. Showing the flair for dark humor that runs through her novels, the world\u2019s richest author wryly joked that she\u2019s received \u201cso many death threats [she] could paper the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian, which is generally known for being left-of-center, has so far provided no explanation for why it took its poll offline with Rowling firmly in the lead. But that didn\u2019t stop the public from taking to social media to share their suspicions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJK Rowling was voted Guardian\u2019s person of the year. Rather than acknowledge this, Guardian killed the competition. What utter cowardice, Guardian,\u201d said one <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cubedreamer\/status\/1475872676077993985?s=20\">tweet<\/a> that received nearly 3000 \u201clikes.\u201d Another, which more than 7000 people approved, read, \u201cBREAKING: Guardian deactivated the poll on \u2018Person of the Year 2021\u2019 because JK Rowling was in the lead. Pathetic!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One person even photoshopped a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nikkicraft\/status\/1476068145571975169?s=20\">fake Guardian article<\/a> that satirically reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian has had to announce that cis-woman writer and notorious transphobe J.K. Rowling will be the 2021 Person of the Year. Rowling was awarded the honor after 112 recounts of the votes and will have the award reluctantly sent to her via second class post after a brief, secret \u2018ceremony\u2019 at the Guardian\u2019s well-appointed and upmarket offices in King\u2019s Place in London, which in no way betrays the paper\u2019s working class roots.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It seems the Guardian\u2019s politically awkward popularity contest isn\u2019t going to be easily forgotten. When the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\/status\/1473716105415909383?s=20\">posted<\/a> the question, \u201cWhat\u2019s the funniest thing you saw on the internet in 2021,\u201d to Twitter, numerous people responded in the same vein as one user who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AthenaNike4\/status\/1475769207694536706?s=20\">replied<\/a>, \u201cThe Guardian closing its Person of the year award because JK Rowling got so many votes \u2014 that was totalitarian levels of funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of the British newspaper, The Guardian, are accusing the outlet of deactivating an online poll that asked readers to vote on \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d after it became apparent that J.K. Rowling would handily win. \u201cTell us: who is your 2021 person of the year?\u201d ran the headline, posted on Dec. 15, with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}