Is anyone surprised that J. K. Rowling is engaging in Holocaust denial/revisionism?
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GlitterEater · 36-40, F
@Ceinwyn She also says that trans people weren't targeted and killed. Pretty interesting that you're leaving that part out. Wonder why...
GlitterEater · 36-40, F
@Ceinwyn It definitely makes her a Holocaust denier/revisionist. Holocaust deniers/revisionists don't typically say the Holocaust didn't happen, they lie about the number of victims, who the victims were, the motivation for the Holocaust, the methods used in the Holocaust, etc.
Castenmas · M
@GlitterEater Where does it say in the tweet post Rowling made that your referring to did she make that claim?
BohemianBabe · M
@Ceinwyn She's denying that trans people were victims in the Holocaust.
Ceinwyn · 26-30, F
@BohemianBabe Where did she say that?
BohemianBabe · M
@Ceinwyn https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/
To be fair, she does kinda flip flop. First she denies that the Nazis burnt books about research into trans people. Then when called out on that, she changes the argument to be about how trans people weren't the first victims of the Nazis. Not that this was the original claim, or that it even matters. I don't know, maybe she was drunk when this happened.
Eventually, she shares a link that says "The LGBTQ+ lobby likes to claim trans people were a key target of the Nazis. They weren't. In fact, trans healthcare was pioneered by a champion of eugenics, and a surgeon who designed experiments at Dachau. His victims there were not trans."
This is a common talking-point of the "the Left are the real Nazis" Right. "Transgenderism" was actually created by the Nazis. They say the same thing about homosexuality, veganism, and abortion. It's Holocaust denial in that it denies that queer people were victims of Nazism, and to make things even worse, it links queer people to Nazism.
To be fair, she does kinda flip flop. First she denies that the Nazis burnt books about research into trans people. Then when called out on that, she changes the argument to be about how trans people weren't the first victims of the Nazis. Not that this was the original claim, or that it even matters. I don't know, maybe she was drunk when this happened.
Eventually, she shares a link that says "The LGBTQ+ lobby likes to claim trans people were a key target of the Nazis. They weren't. In fact, trans healthcare was pioneered by a champion of eugenics, and a surgeon who designed experiments at Dachau. His victims there were not trans."
This is a common talking-point of the "the Left are the real Nazis" Right. "Transgenderism" was actually created by the Nazis. They say the same thing about homosexuality, veganism, and abortion. It's Holocaust denial in that it denies that queer people were victims of Nazism, and to make things even worse, it links queer people to Nazism.
Ceinwyn · 26-30, F
@BohemianBabe Thank you for going through it with me. I know the Nazis did those things from school, but from what I’d seen online up to that time I couldn’t see JKR actually committing to saying that. She’s made a right mess of things there. I think if you’re going to comment on things as important as the Holocaust she’s got to know the facts before she opens her mouth.