She’s right, you know.
“J.K. Rowling Compares Transgender Wokism to Soviet Union, Quotes Anti-Communist Hero,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, April 21, 2022:
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has compared the current climate of fear surrounding the discussion of transgender issues to the Soviet Union, quoting an anti-communist hero and leader of the Velvet Revolution.
“A spectre is haunting Eastern Europe: the spectre of what in the West is called dissent.”
These words were penned by playwright and Czechoslovakian President Václav Havel in his 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless to describe the brutal drive for conformity in all things enforced by the communist Soviet Union in his homeland, and elsewhere across the Soviet bloc.
Now, it seems, Havel’s words are being once again used by dissenters, but this time against the modern woke push for conformity in the ostensibly liberal West.
In a Twitter thread responding to a post declaring that the statement “trans women are women” is being used to force biological women into bowing before the woke mob, author J.K. Rowling shared Havel’s parable of a greengrocer who hung up the Marxist creed “Workers of the World Unite” in his shop window in order to passively conform with the groupthink of the Soviet Union.
Quoting from The Power of the Powerless, Rowling went on to post: “Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them… it enables people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position and their inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from themselves.
“Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it.”…
Infidel says
Okay, so Putin ain’t likely to cite her next time given her condemnation of the Soviets
gravenimage says
Why would she want Putin’s approval, given his love of the Soviet Union, history in the KGB, murder of journalists, and invasion of Ukraine?
Don McKellar says
I would have thought that the whole womens sports debacle would have been the breaking point for “feminists” but it’s clear they’re all cowering to the party line. Young women’s dreams be damned.
CogitoErgoSum says
Wokeness seems more like a religion to me. The woke want you to accept the belief that people can have a spirit that can sometimes be mismatched with the body. The spirit can not be changed but the body can be changed. If you do not recognize their inner spirit by the appearance of their body you must at least accept what they tell you about their spirit – and if you don’t, then you have an evil spirit yourself which needs to be exposed to the world as evil and then be punished by being shunned and humiliated.
That seems like a religion to me. As with Islam they do not tolerate dissent nor do they care about or respect other religions. Their goal is to teach this new “woke” religion to everyone starting at the earliest age possible.
gravenimage says
J.K. Rowling compares demand to accept transgender wokeness to the drive for conformity in the Soviet Union
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She’s not wrong. I can’t believe how vilified JK Rowling has become. Sick stuff.
John Allan says
I suspect that you’ll find the amount of vilification, to be minimal, versus the support … even if the support ISN’T obvious!
And I DO support her opinion!
gravenimage says
I hope you are right, John.
tgusa says
What ever this Lady says angers someone, some group, somewhere. She says what she believes regardless. Doing that, she is an outsider I give her credit for that. I wish there were more like her.
mgoldberg says
She must be enormously wealthy and will remain so with the publishing of her books for a very long time. She can afford to point out the truths and still have all her life, even if she if villified. But… anyone else who is merely making a living in that world, were to opine like she, they would be erased, and she knows that. I imagine that that’s whats eating her amongst her other conclusions and understandings. She has a sense of conscience and that’s enough to make her smell the offal of the oppression. The oppression of the progressive tyranny.
Max says
2 inmates at women-only NJ prison became pregnant from transgender convicts, which proves that Wokes live in a fictitious world.
bill says
I am not a fan of her writing as I have never read it, but I think JKR should get a Nobel for literature as she got millions of children into reading
gravenimage says
Both the Harry Potter books and her detective fiction–written as Robert Galbraith is very good, and very different genres.
John Allan says
I suspect that you’ll find the amount of vilification, to be minimal, versus the support … even if the support ISN’T obvious!
And I DO support her opinion!