The woke mob has proven that even icons on the Left will face its vengeance when it is confronted by a difference of opinion. The two most notable targets are J.K. Rowling and Richard Dawkins, both cultural influencers who have now been taken to the woodshed for their opposition to the woke insistence that there are more than two genders.
The exceptionally popular author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, who was not long ago hailed as a philanthropist and iconic liberal feminist, continues to be savaged by the same woke media that built her reputation. She has violated the woke religious code by her opposition to the transgender agenda. The latest, according to New York Daily News:
Visitors to Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture will still see “Harry Potter” artifacts in the institution’s Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic gallery, but they won’t see a trace of J.K. Rowling, the author of the book series. The museum has removed mentions of Rowling because of her anti-trans comments.
Imagine stripping an author from her own work over rash, unfounded accusations. The museum’s project manager, Chris Moore, accuses Rowling of being “super hateful” and “divisive.” The woke mob has become akin to the Sharia police — which is, ironically, positioned on the other side of the coin, where the “Islamophobia” brigade also exists.
Preeminent scientist Richard Dawkins, who once condemned “his fellow liberals as ‘cowards’ over their apparent failure to condemn Islam for the way it treats certain people,” is also now being savaged because he referenced the transgender notion of more than two genders as a “distortion of reality” and declared that scientifically, “sex really is binary”; “there are two sexes and that’s all there is to it.” Dawkins has come out publicly in defense of Rowling, saying that she is being “bullied” by trans activists in order to force her to “pretend biology doesn’t exist.”
Dawkins is now being accused of abandoning science “to justify his transphobia,” as he, too, is facing a systematic diminishment of his reputation, just as Rowling continues her descent among the woke arbiters of what actually constitutes reality. Dawkins also faced retribution from the woke two years ago when the American Humanist Association withdrew its humanist of the year award from Dawkins for the alleged crime of “demean[ing] marginalised groups” using “the guise of scientific discourse.”
Dawkins subsequently tweeted:
In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white chapter president of NAACP, was vilified for identifying as Black. Some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men. You will be vilified if you deny that they literally are what they identify as.
Discuss.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) April 10, 2021
I do not intend to disparage trans people. I see that my academic “Discuss” question has been misconstrued as such and I deplore this. It was also not my intent to ally in any way with Republican bigots in US now exploiting this issue .
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) April 12, 2021
It is astonishing to witness the savagery that was, up to recently, typically reserved for those on the Right, who were beaten up, dubbed “hateful” and marginalized without any real evidence. Those specifically who criticized Islam or called out behaviors on the Left that were systematically eroding America’s First Amendment were singled out for abuse. Other Western nations, including Canada and countries in Western Europe, have also experienced assaults upon the unalienable rights of citizens as recognized in those nations’ constitutions.
In a blog post published in March, Moore, who is transgender, stated:
There’s a certain cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity in the world of Harry Potter and, this time, it is not actually a Dementor. We would love to go with the internet’s theory that these books were actually written without an author, but this certain person is a bit too vocal with her super hateful and divisive views to be ignored….For the time being, the curators decided to remove any of her artefacts [sic] from this gallery to reduce her impact.
Many targets of the woke mob may find themselves scratching their heads in the face of this latest woke barrage of name-calling, bullying and labeling. Such behavior is founded on nothing more than than an individual’s refusal to appease and to accept and regurgitate woke indoctrination when they are told to do so.
As Dawkins stated in an interview with Piers Morgan:
I think it’s very sad. Universities are places where you should be free to speak your mind, listen, even to something that you don’t like, and it’s very tragic they have bought in to the idea that if you don’t like what you think you’re going to hear from someone, you should shut them up.
The woke are the true perpetrators of hatred and division in free societies. They scream “diversity,” but radically oppose the real meaning of diversity. Anything that does not fit into their scheme and world view, they reject with labels, rage and punitive consequences. It is now evident that even those whom woke arbiters once embraced could at any minute be thrown under the bus, if they violate woke tenets.
Biggles says
Let’s just wait and see who will emerge the winner, won’t we? My money is on the anti-woke movement, because of the fact that minors are (considered) incapable of adult judgment and because of the irreversibility of (the damage resulting from) their ‘transition’. In view of those facts the present state of things is absolutely absurd, as in ‘untenable’. Preposterous and outrageous would seem to fit best. Well, that’s the loony left in all its ‘glory’ for you.
gravenimage says
Yes–for children to get non-reversible surgery at an age when many haven’t even decided what they want to study in college is insanity.
Michael Copeland says
Pretend. That is the important thing. Pretend.
PRCS says
+1
Transmaster says
J.K. Rowlings in untouchable. The LBGTAEIOUWXYZ crowd can go pound sand. She is a billionaire. I was a school teacher when The Philosopher’s Stone was widely published. Suddenly I was seeing young people reading this book, something I was not used to seeing at the time. I finally picked up a copy and found out what was going on. I was hooked. I would guess that not of these screeching banshee’s have read any of her books so screw em.
The Professor is a little more vulnerable but with nobody but none these mentally challenged switch hitters can touch him either.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I generally resist “allyship” w/ frauds like Dawkins, Rawling & others who’re otherwise firmly on the left, and I have no issues w/ them being cancelled
I did disagree w/ Matt Walsh, though, on the subject of Ne-Oh, where Walsh theorized that Ne-Oh authorized his publicist to apologize. I take Ne-Oh at his original word, and think his publicist had gone rogue, since he did say in his original statement that he was prepared for the consequences of getting cancelled
PRCS says
Re: Dawkins/Rawlings/others: cancellations of individuals or groups emboldens those who support that.
*and then they came for me
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Except that they already came for me… In case you missed it, conservatives & people on the right were the first to get cancelled, and after they were done w/ them, they turned on their own. I’m happy participating in a parallel economy not contaminated by the likes of P&G, Kellogs, Gillette, Amazon, Meta,…. the list goes on. Yeah, there are exceptions, like every computer platform owner – Apple, Microsoft & Google – are far more woke than even Bud Light, but some alternatives are quicker to develop than others
So no, I’m happy to unite w/ EX-Dems like Brendon Straka, who concede that they were wrong (although I to this day do not accept gay marriage, but am okay w/ civil unions). But the likes of Rowling, Dawkins,…. hard pass!
gravenimage says
Spot on, PRCS. Karl Popper’s famous quote is apt here.
Pray Hard says
Dawkins can take care of himself. I can guarantee you that he doesn’t give a rat’s about being cancelled.
Pray Hard says
The thing about Richard is that he needs to meet some of us “Republican bigots” and find out what we’re actually like. He really doesn’t have a clue. He would quickly discover that he’s on the wrong side of history. Of course, he is a Brit and has to be very careful about what he says so that he doesn’t get arrested by the cross-dressing Brit police. He’s as much of an anti-islam guy as any of us here. I’ve seen him shred moslems. Unfortunately, he’s a prime example of how leftism is a disease of the mind and that no matter how intelligent a person is, they can be infected. Sorry, Richard, but you asked for it.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I really don’t care for Dawkins. People who were EX-Dems, like the WalkAway campaign, sure, I’m happy to have a conversation w/ them. But those who are still unreformed Leftists, but who just might have one disagreement or more w/ them, they can figure out for themselves which camp they wanna be in
somehistory says
Yesterday, there was a story on the msn feed about a 12 year-old boy who wore a shirt to school with five words written on it. “There are only two genders.”
The child was told that his shirt made others fee “unsafe” and that he needed to remove it. He was told that his shirt was “disruptive in class.”
the young boy said he didn’t want to remove it, so the two bullies…adults who were berating him…told him that he couldn’t return to class. He called his father to take him home.
On another day, he addressed the committee who decides such things for the school and he made really strong, sound, reasonable arguments for his right to wear the shirt and that wearing it hurt no one. He pointed out that several other students also wanted the shirt; that no one left class or cried due to his wearing it.
And he asked if the ‘feelings of a minority were more important than his rights’
I have no use for harry potter books or those like them…never read, never will.
I have nothing in common with dawkins….he would mock me and my belief in God and Christ.
mozlums and the trans/woke/alphabet pushers have something in common…a desire to force their way on others and if they can’t, they decide that the others don’t deserve to live and make choices.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! I am not interested in those who suddenly have a fallout on one issue – which is usually enough for their comrades to flip on them, when they’re still the same character that they were days earlier. They’re still Leftists at heart, & don’t belong in our groups
somehistory says
there is a bit of humor in this story
“LGBTQ+ community receiving priority lanes for checkpoints, users angry as they are not disabled”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lgbtq-community-receiving-priority-lanes-for-checkpoints-users-angry-as-they-are-not-disabled/ar-AA1f14Df?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=a56f2d80d33e40748b1b58dbfe0a8d8f&ei=58
FYI says
I support the right of Mr Dawkins to express the scientific truth that there are two sexes and free speech should be the norm in colleges,not the exception.
God knows I did try the atheist route in college myself as a student but there was way too much stuff about God for me:God this,God that…
It is good to have the intellectual freedom to think for yourself.
I don’t agree that atheists or ‘apostates” should be cancelled.
In fact being an apostate from islam in particular is really,really cool.
PRCS says
+1 for sure.
“In fact being an apostate from islam in particular is really,really cool.”
Can’t argue with that.
Siddi Nasrani says
The woke are the true perpetrators of hatred and division in free societies. So true that is their intention.
Please see this video to get a greater understanding to what is going on.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XQO6gY8sshWy/?fbclid=IwAR30oBS_ac6IQ6NdOSEVhqSFaIu4-kFuDDBMqBem6x40Z4MD-mkC517S9aY
Andy Cap says
Well, maybe what triggers the woke lynchers coming after Rowling is the fact that her books are crammed with the impossible becoming possible, and now she’s negating that. The difference is, of course, that her fairy tales take place in a book, the woke fairy tale i.r.l.. As in: maiming children in real life. How sick can one get.
gravenimage says
J.K. Rowling erased, Richard Dawkins ostracized, both for opposing trans dogma
…………………………………
Just insane.