{"id":1400833,"date":"2022-03-25T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400833"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:30:50","slug":"putin-says-west-cancelled-jk-rowling-and-theyre-trying-to-cancel-russia-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-says-west-cancelled-jk-rowling-and-theyre-trying-to-cancel-russia-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Says West Cancelled JK Rowling and They&#039;re Trying to Cancel Russia Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fputin-says-west-cancelled-jk-rowling-and-theyre-trying-to-cancel-russia-too%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=1400833&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is a victim of \u201ccancel culture\u201d like <em>Harry Potter<\/em> author JK Rowling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey cancelled Joanne Rowling recently \u2014 the children\u2019s author, her books are published all over the world \u2014 just because she didn\u2019t satisfy the demands of \u2018gender freedoms\u2019,\u201d Putin said on Friday, referencing the British writer\u2019s ongoing clash with fellow leftists who regard her as \u201cTERF\u201d (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) for insisting there are important differences between biological females and male-to-female transwomen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Russian leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1507333553448800309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1507333553448800309%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">insisted<\/a> that the West was similarly \u201cengaging in cancel culture\u201d against Russia and Russian culture, referencing the cancellations of orchestral performances <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/09\/nolte-orchestra-blacklists-tchaikovskys-music-due-to-ukraine\/\">involving Russian composers<\/a> and attempts to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/03\/nolte-stupid-blacklisting-russian-civilians-dead-novelist\/\">remove Russian writers and books<\/a> from some academic courses in recent months, comparing this to the behaviour of the National Socialists in Germany around the time of the Second World War.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It&#8217;s impossible to imagine such a thing in our country&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Vladimir Putin uses J K Rowling as an example of Western cynicism and &#8220;cancel culture&#8221;, which he says is currently being aimed at Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Latest on Ukraine: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XTFXr6HmAe\">https:\/\/t.co\/XTFXr6HmAe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Sky 501 and YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TyH9lddC5k\">pic.twitter.com\/TyH9lddC5k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1507333553448800309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Putin also struck what some right-leaning Westerners who have counted themselves among his admirers might see as an uncomfortably \u201cwoke\u201d tone, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/society\/1427551\">claiming<\/a> that Russia is \u201cimmune\u201d to the book-burnings of National Socialist era Germany because it is a place \u201cwhere there is no place for ethnic intolerance, where people of dozens of nationalities have been living, working, and raising their children side by side and where cultural diversity is the pride of society, the strength and advantage of our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This characterisation of the \u201cRussian homeland\u201d is arguably very much at odds with the current censorship around the \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine and is certainly at odds with the country\u2019s history during the Soviet era, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/abs\/discourses-of-regulation-and-resistance\/soviet-censorship-system\/BD6BE29AA41C1956BFEC6BD9C8253D0C\">censorship<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching\">falsification of history<\/a> were endemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IStandWithUkraine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IStandWithUkraine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aNItgc5aiW\">https:\/\/t.co\/aNItgc5aiW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1507364792834666511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While politics can make strange bedfellows, Rowling was quick to shut down President Putin for any imputation that they are engaged in a common struggle, highlighting his own \u201ccancellation\u201d of opposition figures in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics,\u201d she wrote on microblogging platform Twitter, adding that hashtag #IStandWithUkraine and a link to a BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-16057045\">article<\/a> on Alexei Navalny, who was Russia\u2019s leading opposition politician prior to being banned from standing for election, poisoned with a nerve agent, and imprisoned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Facebook, YouTube, TikTok Blocks Russian State Media Including RT and Sputnik<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JJYGZkSEmc\">https:\/\/t.co\/JJYGZkSEmc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1499021712305713152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is a victim of \u201ccancel culture\u201d like Harry Potter author JK Rowling. \u201cThey cancelled Joanne Rowling recently \u2014 the children\u2019s author, her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"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-1400833","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\/1400833","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400833\/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=1400833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}