{"id":1211299,"date":"2022-01-12T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211299"},"modified":"2022-01-12T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:34:55","slug":"what-jk-rowling-can-teach-us-about-surviving-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-jk-rowling-can-teach-us-about-surviving-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"What JK Rowling\u00a0Can Teach Us About Surviving Cancel Culture"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwhat-jk-rowling-can-teach-us-about-surviving-cancel-culture%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=1211299&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>Cancel Culture has been around long enough for victims to develop a strategy against it.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t apologize, unless you truly did something wrong. Realize the so-called mob is often very small and disconnected from the public at large.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all? Ignore the mob until they find another target. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/mark-wahlberg-cancel-culture\/\">Mark Wahlberg did just<\/a> that after woke scolds attempted to cancel him after his unsavory past \u201cresurfaced\u201d anew.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a young Wahlberg attacked innocents as a teenager, hurling racial slurs in the process. He faced criminal punishment for his gross actions, apologized repeatedly and went on to lead a seemingly exemplary life as a father, husband and A-list actor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarry Potter\u201d author J.K. Rowling essentially aped all of the above strategies when the mob came to her door, but the Cancel Culture crowd refuses to back down.<\/p>\n<p>They may never leave her alone.<\/p>\n<p>It all started in 2020, a time when Rowling\u2019s \u201cPotter\u201d legacy, and a crush of progressive-approved stances, marked her as celebrity royalty. She hated Donald Trump, retconned her own literary canon to make it more inclusive and enjoyed media adoration along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Then she Tweeted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy\">unabashed defense of her fellow women<\/a> on Twitter, triggered by an op-ed calling women, \u201cpeople who menstruate.\u201d Far-left progressives recoiled at her verbiage, but Rowling didn\u2019t back down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She doubled down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf sex isn\u2019t real, there\u2019s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn\u2019t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn\u2019t hate to speak the truth \u2026 The idea that women like me, who\u2019ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they\u2019re vulnerable in the same way as women\u2014i.e., to male violence\u2014\u2018hate\u2019 trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences\u2014is nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowling, like Dave Chappelle in recent months, reached out to the trans community in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect every trans person\u2019s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I\u2019d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it\u2019s hateful to say so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That changed everything. Suddenly, her seemingly invincible brand took a direct hit. Media outlets raged against her. Columnists said the \u201cPotter\u201d legacy had been permanently soiled.<\/p>\n<p>The three main actors from the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d franchise \u2013 Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint \u2013 distanced themselves from her in the public arena. Rowling had been branded a bigot in the public square by actors who owed their career (and bank accounts) to her imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Things looked grim for the author\u2019s public persona, but the Cancel Culture mob routinely moves on to other targets. Rowling\u2019s \u201ccrimes\u201d were Tweets and essays, after all, not physical violence or calls for anything other than kindness.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t matter. Cancel Culture places anti-trans critiques above all else (just ask Chappelle), and Rowling had crossed a line that couldn\u2019t be uncrossed.<\/p>\n<p>Even a hostage-style apology might not work at this point to undo the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Some could argue Rowling wasn\u2019t \u201ccanceled\u201d in any profound way. She still had the \u201cFantastic Beasts\u201d film franchise, and no one had siphoned her book royalties from her. That didn\u2019t capture the efforts made across the culture, either by those who truly believed she had attacked the trans community or just feared anyone suspecting they sided with her, to erase her from the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarry Potter\u201d fan sites like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/celebrity\/jk-rowling\/harry-potter-fansites-no-longer-support-jk-rowling\">MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron<\/a> vowed not to report on her, her honors, or similar news items.<\/p>\n<p>She ironically became like Lord Voldemort, the Potter villain whose name should not be spoken. Her name no longer appeared on the site, along with fan art or related imagery of the British author.<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand book festival <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/02\/harry-potter-themed-even-canceled-over-j-k-rowlings-transphobic-tweets\/\">removed a Potter-themed event<\/a> in 2021 due to Rowling\u2019s gender commentary.<\/p>\n<p>The recent HBO Max reunion special, \u201cReturn to Hogwarts,\u201d made sure not to include Rowling in the ceremony. She appeared, oh so briefly, via archival footage of the franchise she created.<\/p>\n<p>A British secondary school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10367133\/JK-Rowling-cancelled-Performing-arts-school-drops-Harry-Potter-author-transgender-row.html\">removed Rowling as the name of one of its houses<\/a> due to her trans comments, replacing it with Olympian Dame Kelly Holmes.<\/p>\n<p>Even threats of potential violence couldn\u2019t slow the Cancel Culture attacks on Rowling. A trio of trans activists <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/22\/j-k-rowling-slams-trans-activists-for-sharing-address-on-twitter\/\">shared the author\u2019s address<\/a> on Twitter last year, drawing a sharp, revealing rebuke from Rowling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should have reflected on the fact that I\u2019ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven\u2019t stopped speaking out \u2026 perhaps \u2013 and I\u2019m just throwing this out there \u2013 the best way to prove your movement isn\u2019t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporters refused to attack or critique the activists in question, nor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancel Culture has been around long enough for victims to develop a strategy against it. Don\u2019t apologize, unless you truly did something wrong. Realize the so-called mob is often very small and disconnected from the public at large. Best of all? Ignore the mob until they find another target. 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