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JK Rowling has been defended by Andrew Doyle after brutally shutting down Emma Watson's "ignorant" offer of reconciliation.Speaking to GB News, the commentator declared that although it is a "nice sentiment", the Harry Potter actress is still "cosying up to a movement that wants JK Rowling dead".FULL STORY HERE.
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What really struck me about J.K. Rowling's statement was she made it to some extent about social class, didn't she? I liked that
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Yeah, she makes a very good point that, of course, when J.K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter book, she was living in poverty
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And she has not had the kind of privileged experience of life that the likes of Emma Watson have had
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I mean, because of the success of her books and her films, she made Emma Watson a multimillionaire
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So the point she's making is, of course, when it comes to women's rights, Emma Watson is never going to have to share a mixed sex ward at a hospital or be in a prison cell with a male rapist who identifies as female or have any of these various issues
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These are points that J.K. Rowling made in her rebuttal tweet just the other day
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And she makes a very, very good point. It's a luxury belief of Emma Watson's because she's never going to have to face the problems that a lot of ordinary women will face
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It reminded me a lot, Andrew, of when you hear politicians talking about mass immigration and that it's not a problem
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But you think, well, you live in your beautiful country house and you'll never have to see your high street change
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I think social class is missed out of so many of these issues and it's fundamental to it
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But also I interested in the timing of J Rowling as well She stayed very quiet in terms of actually criticising Emma Watson and the other actors from the series hasn she So why did she say now was the time to speak out
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Well, she's been incredibly restrained. That's what I would say. J.K. Rowling, we have to put
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this into perspective. She's had years and years of death threats, rape threats, threats of torture
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activists doxing her, throwing the most disgusting abuse. And all of it coming from this movement
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A movement, the trans activist movement, of course, has violence and violent rhetoric just completely normalized within it
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That's the movement that Emma Watson has thrown her weight behind and said that she would support
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I think, you know, when it came to various interviews that JK Rowling has done over the years, and she doesn't do many
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I mean, she did a podcast about her experiences and she specifically said to the producers she didn't want to address the issue of Emma Watson
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because she was concerned about bringing her into this, you know, this toxic debate and getting her piled on and all the rest of it
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So she was very considerate. I think she's just run out of patience. I think this latest podcast appearance where Emma Watson has said
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well, I'd love for, you know, two things can be true. We can completely fundamentally disagree, but I can still love her
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Well, you know, that's a nice sentiment, but this is a movement that has been saying that J.K. Rowling should be assassinated
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And as J.K. Rowling says, if you cozy up to a movement that wants me dead, how can I then say, oh, that's fine, we can still be mates
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I mean, it's absolutely incoherent
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