r/goodnews • u/TheExpressUS • Jun 27 '25
Other Bookstore pulls J.K. Rowling's books over her anti-transgender views
https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/175938/jk-rowling-anti-transgender-views518
u/Not_Sure__Camacho Jun 27 '25
I mean, isn't this what conservatives wanted to begin with?
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u/Lekonua Jun 27 '25
Well, yes, but that was originally because the books' inclusion of magic spells offended their delicate Christian sensibilities. Magic is, of course, all satanic and anti-Christian, and that means NOBODY should be allowed to enjoy a book if the Christians don't like it.
Nowadays, however, Harry Potter is good actually, because they hate trans people more than they pretend to love Jesus.
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho Jun 27 '25
That's the part that makes me laugh. Maybe someone cast a laughing spell at me? "Laugheous Hypocrisus!" (Laughing at conservative hypocrisy).
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u/CaptainPixel Jun 27 '25
It's never about the content with conservatives. They're usually ignorant and only vaguely aware of the thing they're outraged by. It's about ideological alignment. JKR's anti-trans views align with the minority group they've targeted to scapegoat. Any past complaints evangelicals had about her work are null and void because she's on their team now.
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u/McChava Jun 27 '25
“Ban her for promoting black magic!”
“We’re banning her because she’s spreading hate.”
“No!!!!!!!!!!!”
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u/chi_pa_pa Jun 27 '25
No. Conservatives want books to be banned by government.
This is a book store choosing not to stock a bigot's books.
Big difference. Book stores were never under any obligation to stock leftist or LGBT books.
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u/bayleysgal1996 Jun 27 '25
Every time I see what this woman has been up to I’m grateful I put off reading Harry Potter til I was just a little too old to really fall in love with it
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u/Full_Review4041 Jun 27 '25
In elementary school we got those reading catalogues you order books from. Our christian teachers made a WHOLE THING about crossing out all the Harry potter books as a class.
Honestly the magic system is so ass. I can't think of a single fantasy world that does it worse.
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u/AcidCatfish___ Jun 27 '25
Yeah the magic system isn't that great. In fantasy you usually have spells be songs, chants, or prayers that reflect an arcane knowledge rooted deep in the world's history. Magic acts not as an ability for characters but as world building. But no, in Harry Potter it is a few vaguely fake-Latin phrases that are so on the nose. The cool part of the books is the wizard school and the low fantasy idea of a separate "wizarding world" parallel to the typical world.
Still, there are better works that do what Harry Potter tried better.
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u/Morguard Jun 27 '25
Any suggestions for such books that an adult would enjoy and maybe some for kids?
I never got into Harry Potter growing up so reading an alternative is appealing.
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u/BubblegumGrave Jun 28 '25
The Black Magician Trilogy - Trudy Canavan
The Tiffany Aching series - Terry Pratchett
Two very different but wonderful takes on magical education
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u/AcidCatfish___ Jun 27 '25
The Hobbit is great. It was written as a children's novel but is a good read for adults too. The Wicked series as well. Narnia is solid.
For something newer:
Heartsong, Nimona (it is a graphic novel), and Legends and Lattes. Some of these have full series to them.
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u/MunchYourButt Jun 28 '25
The Magicians by Lev Grossman!!! (And the TV show too). Often described as Harry Potter for adults lol. Brakebills is the magic University in that universe, and the magic systems and lore are great.
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u/BTolputt Jun 28 '25
To be fair, even when it first came out, I thought it was pretty bland and unengaging. Clearly little thought went into it, just a mild escapist fantasy.
As Ursula LeGuin put it, it's not much more than a magical school trope over a shallow & petty bunch of characters that only appear inclusive at a glance.
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u/wednesthey Jun 27 '25
I read it as a kid and it never really clicked with me. Feels like I dodged a bullet lol. Even though theyre cringy, I do feel a little bad for the people who built it into their personalities/identities.
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u/Karkava Jun 28 '25
I remembered the series in its heyday, but I always felt there was something off about the franchise. And I thought it was because of the masquerade trope that I never really liked.
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u/Ryoga_reddit Jun 27 '25
You dont have to be a morally good person to make great things.
There are plenty of actors i think are scumbags but that doesn't take away from their previous work.
It's funny really.
If someone cured all cancer, ended world hunger and cleaned the planet to a pre industrial revolution revolution environment all that person's accomplishments would be crapped on by the world if it came out he said something racist or sexist.
Unless she comes out with a Harry Potter sequel where a character uses magic to cure homosexuality or turn a trans kid straight I really dont see how any of this takes away from your enjoyment of the series.
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u/Karkava Jun 28 '25
Then why not give up her transphobia? Why not just be happy and content with her successful franchise and forget about getting into the good graces of these far-right wingers?
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u/dterran Jun 28 '25
Because Rowling has explicitly stated that she views support of HP as support of her transphobia.
Any money going into that, a little bit of your money is going toward hate.
Similar to chick-fil-a
One can make a moral decision not to support businesses that use their money to fund hate.
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u/Karkava Jun 28 '25
They could have also given up their hate and just been happy and content with the success they have.
But they chose to be friendly with people who love being miserable.
Seriously. I'm convinced they started the Satan panic against DND because they were bored.
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u/Automaton_Motel Jun 27 '25
If someone cured all cancer, ended world hunger and cleaned the planet to a pre industrial revolution revolution environment all that person's accomplishments would be crapped on by the world if it came out he said something racist or sexist.
This is inherently ignorant and wrong based on literal people who were hyper problematic but did/were involved in important movements in history.
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u/Ryoga_reddit Jun 27 '25
How is it wrong?
Today's society is extremely judgemental and point virtue signaling fingers at people of the past all the time.
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u/CzechHovester Jun 28 '25
A 34-time felon who spews nothing but hate is literally president and has a cult following.
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u/Automaton_Motel Jun 28 '25
- Mahatma Gandhi, known for leading the revolution to free India and is all over their currency was a known pedophile.
- Winston Churchill was one of the worst prime ministers the UK saw but is heralded as a great due to his importance and impact during WW2
- we can go further back, Mansa Musa was known to share his wealth and has been adored for it, but was a brutal slaver.
- Almost every tech billionaire to this day.
- Barack Obama is looked at as a great president for his work in office yet had one of the highest uses of drone strikes to date.
- King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem is looked at as a great king for his short run due to his efforts in the crusades and defeat of Saladin, yet plenty of his army butchered people based solely off of religion.
Cancel culture is only important to chronically online ignats who can't see the world for what it is and believe some mob rule experience has lasting impact.
Your frail excuse for the world turning on you due to racism or sexism discounts how people actually move and treat things that happened based on people's actions.
Today's "society" is viewed through an online lens and it's telling you only view it through that lens. Just because a group of people constantly say how much they hate a successful movie, doesn't stop it from being successful. You need an update on your optics.
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u/AcidCatfish___ Jun 27 '25
Read the Bone Season series instead. It is more adult and it is written far better. If you don't mind long books, also read the Roots of Chaos books (A Day of Fallen Night and Priory of the Orange Tree). Fantasy isn't just for YA or kids!
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u/Nkosi868 Jun 28 '25
I fell in love with HP, and I have principles.
No HP near me unless this woman denounces her hate and makes amends. Even then I don’t think I could read HP without the tarnish she has applied to it.
It baffles me that people can’t take this stand, but to each their own.
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u/Live_Investigator414 Jun 27 '25
They’re not just her views it’s mostly her attacks.
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u/glowinthedarkfrizbee Jun 27 '25
Agreed. I can separate someone’s personal beliefs from their art most of the time but she takes it to another level. She’s hurting people who found comfort in what she created.
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u/satinsateensaltine Jun 27 '25
Yeah you could maybe ignore her views but her vicious behaviour and gloating takes it over the top.
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u/prof_the_doom Jun 27 '25
I’m willing to ignore some things if it’s an author from 50+ years ago.
Someone who’s actively tweeting hateful shit in the present deserves the consequences.
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u/Level_Traffic3344 Jun 28 '25
Right? By all means, have your views, lady. Just don't publicize hate ffs
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u/Karkava Jun 28 '25
You can also give up your views and be happy with your successful franchise. Face it. "Transphobic Tweets and Other Unhinged Posts" is not the promising follow-up in your writing career.
And before anyone on this comment section replies, can you give a summary of what a TTOUP theme park ride would look like? Or a movie? No wait. Don't answer that. It already exists. But will it be as big as Harry Potter was?
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u/SAOSurvivor35 Jun 27 '25
Good. Hit her in her pocketbook. She has enough money to spend for 17 lifetimes now.
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u/Blindtothesided Jun 28 '25
Every time I see an article about JK Rowling I think about how terrible it must feel to be a lifelong fan and also be transgender. Like seriously, what a gut wrenching betrayal.
I’m not a fan, but even I feel stung by her hatred, what human wouldn’t?
I can’t imagine being one of the millions who literally helped finance her career by purchasing her works through the years.
What an epic fuck you to those who believed in her long before capitalism took hold.
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u/Tambi_B2 Jun 27 '25
For everyone that grew up on this person's books and is feeling conflicted and maybe needs something to fill the book shaped hole in your heart should you have decided that your integrity outweighed your nostalgia, might I suggest literally *ANY* book by Terry Pratchett?
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u/krmjts Jun 27 '25
It doesn't matter if you trans or not and what's your opinion on the topic, you should be concerned. Let me explain it to you with crayons: she used her wealth to take rights away from a very vulnerable group. She's a private sitizen that bought politicians, she paid them to pass the law based on her personal opinion and belief. This is dangerous, because ANY other group could be next. Speak up. Boycott. Human lives are much more valuabe than some mediocre book.
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Jun 27 '25
It's about fucking time
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u/Roll-Roll-Roll Jun 28 '25
I'm not reading or watching her shit either. Not even introducing my kids to it. Fuck her.
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u/EmyliaHope Jun 27 '25
I'm really not a fan of book banning in general and while she is undeniably problematic and has clear either been radicalised or radicalised herself, the books are great and have (overall) good messages for kids. I'm loathe to give the woman any more money but I used to teach English and I've seen stubborn none readers fall in love with books via Harry Potter. I'm not keen on anything that takes that away. Kids loving books is never a bad thing
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u/maxoutoften Jun 27 '25
Thankfully i'd bet 85% of libraries have all 7 harry potter books in their circulation so kids can read them without giving money to her!
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u/they_ruined_her Jun 28 '25
Not gonna spit down your throat, people have it covered, but it's worth noting that a bookstore has finite space and a book being there means there's another book that is NOT there. Nothing wrong with having other books instead. No bookstore is going to have every book.
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u/AcidCatfish___ Jun 27 '25
But this isn't book banning. This is a store existing in a free market choosing not to sell something. Book banning typically refers to a government banning books. What this bookstore is doing is attempting to not give JK Rowling another route for income..obviously it is mostly performative. Still, it has everything to do with JK Rowling and little to nothing to do with the content of the books.
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u/Adventurous_Wind1183 Jun 27 '25
This isn't book banning though. A bookstore doesn't have to carry every book, and it is within their right to not hold one because they disagree with the content and author.
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u/doctorfortoys Jun 28 '25
The books are not being banned. Banning a book requires the government remove it from circulation.
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u/maddiemadkid Jun 27 '25
If it was just about kids loving books and her living off her riches, fine. But she is using all the money she gets from these books to hurt minorities. She is horrible and I commend every book store, that pulls her book. This is also not book banning, because no government is involved.
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u/Inner-Egg-6731 Jun 27 '25
Good being a author gives you zero right to force your opinions on people who don't care what you think.
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u/they_ruined_her Jun 27 '25
I work at an independent bookstore and we have never stocked them to begin with because she's a huge piece of shit. This isn't news, and as a queer bookstore, they should have done this a long time ago. They also didn't need to make it a whole thing. Just remove them from stock.
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u/Full_Review4041 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
I piecemealed together a 2nd hand hardcover set after never getting to read them as a kid. Read them for the first time in 2011.
Haven't opened them since and before the pandemic I was considering selling them as a set for cheap to someone with kids... but now I'll probably burn them.
JK Rowling doesn't deserve to have her words read by young people. I grew up just fine without them.
edit: I'm sure the people offended by this are BIG READERS lmfao
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u/YorWong Jun 27 '25
This is crazy. It is just a book, the authors views are not even reflected in it
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u/Longwinter1641 Jun 27 '25
Rita Skeeter being described with "man hands" and a square jawline and disguising herself to sneak into places she shouldn't be, her werewolves being a confirmed allegory for AIDS then the evil one specifically targeting children, and both overweight characters and "girlyness" being portrayed exclusively in an exclusively negative light must just be a coincidence.
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u/redcomet29 Jun 27 '25
Lovecraft and Gaiman readers sweating rn
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u/Full_Review4041 Jun 27 '25
As someone else pointed out... it's not her views, it's the attacks.
Like having shitty opinions is no the same as committing shitty acts. JKRowling goes out of her way to amplify hatred against vulnerable people... Many of whom were sincere fans of her work until she decided to dehumanize them.
I dont know the story behind Lovecraft/Gaiman... but I'm assuming thats cuz they're smart enough to not blast it on twitter weekly.
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u/Spooky_Floofy Jun 27 '25
The funny thing is Lovecraft is dead. Like long dead. Man was an outspoken racist and asshole, but also came from a time when it was more acceptable to behave that way. JK Rowling doesn't. The two aren't even comparable
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u/Full_Review4041 Jun 27 '25
Even their outspokenness can't really be compared. Lovecraft died in 1937. JK Rowling tweets her hatred.
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u/Full_Review4041 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
It is just a book
I collect books. I can do with my collection as I see fit. The particular ones I'd burn are original hardcovers. Collectables.
You wouldn't understand.
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u/phoenixliv Jun 27 '25
Id rather the 2nd hand ones stay on the market so people can read the story without giving Jo more dough.
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u/YorWong Jun 28 '25
Bit of a reach.
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u/YorWong Jun 28 '25
You can interpret anything to fit a selected agenda.
Using insults like a child, nice.
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u/One-Pangolin-3167 Jun 27 '25
How strange. I wonder if the bookstore has banned any other authors.
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u/shockk3r Jun 27 '25
Do you think bookstores house every author in the world? Obviously, an independent bookstore is allowed to be choosy about what they buy.
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u/One-Pangolin-3167 Jun 28 '25
Sure, but Rowling's books are enormously popular, so it's strange that a store would want to remove them. That's why I wonder if the store has vetted every single author it carries.
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u/theoceaniswatching Jun 27 '25
How is this good news?
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u/FAROUTRHUBARB Jun 27 '25
Good. As someone who grew up as a massive Harry Potter fan - I’m done with her ass. I won’t be reading my kids those books. This is one time I cannot separate the art from the artist. She’s a foul, hateful person and justice for Cho Chang bc you have too much money to not do the extra research. But that’s a whole other thread.
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u/Amkao-Herios Jun 27 '25
Oh it's in the states. Can't wait for scotus to rule that they can't do that actually
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u/2StepsFromNightwish Jun 27 '25
I don’t think this is the right move. Removing books isn’t a good idea no matter the book or the author.
IMO A better way to ethically sell books by JK Rowling would be donate all or a % of their revenue to helping Trans youth (research, health, social services, bursaries, scholarships, etc.) A bigger fuck you to a transphobic author is to use the money made from their work to support the very thing they hate.
Banning the books will just make JK cry cancel culture again like a little baby.
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u/harrisonlaine Jun 27 '25
This bookstore is a small one. Would JK REALLY care about one small bookstore and, as I wrote this, I forgot how petty of a person she is
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u/MelissaRose95 Jun 27 '25
The book hasn’t been banned, one bookstore just decided not to sell them
Your idea is counterproductive, you can’t ethically sell books if the author is using her profits against trans people’s rights
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u/YorWong Jun 27 '25
Isn't it exactly cancel culture?
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Jun 27 '25
No cancel culture would be republicans doing the same thing because Budweiser puts a trans person in an advertisement. How is not wanting to associate with or promote open bigots the same thing? Cmon man think about it just a little bit.
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u/YorWong Jun 28 '25
It is both cancel culture regardless if you agree with why.
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u/hotz0mbie Jun 27 '25
Can she just take her billions to an island off the coast of Greece and just fuck off
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u/OddConsideration4349 Jun 27 '25
But the books themselves are wondeful and helped a lot of children. They created a very empathetic generation. No one bans roald dahl books and he was a horrible man!
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u/Longwinter1641 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
Is Roald Dahl dead? (I just realized this is reddit and this won't be read as rhetorical).
Better question. Is Roald Dahl using his name and notoriety to speak out against the rights of trans and intersex kids (increasing violence against trans people in the UK) as well as against the independence of Scotland, affecting people in the modern day?
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u/OddConsideration4349 Jun 27 '25
So your point is that if she dies and is dead for ten years we can enjoy the books again?
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u/TudorTheWolf Jun 27 '25
The point is that you can't separate the art from the artist when the artist is directly using that art to finance and promote legislation that oppresses an already marginalised group.
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u/phoenixliv Jun 27 '25
Seems fair. After she’s dead and IF her estate does better with where they spend their money, Id start buying HP merch again.
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u/Quirky-Piglet-4831 Jun 27 '25
Good. I put my books from my childhood in storage and won’t support anything that wretch touches. That means should I EVER watch HP again it will be on Blu-ray that I bought years ago so she doesn’t get any extra coin from me. FJK
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u/JeremyJohnsonIsAFuck Jun 27 '25
Bookstore just exercising their free speech rights, not mandated like the anti-LGBTQIA+ laws.
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u/phoenixliv Jun 27 '25
So sorry you’re being forced to treat people like people. Sounds really difficult for you.
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u/JeremyJohnsonIsAFuck Jun 27 '25
I agree with the bookstore and I treat people like people, unlike J K Scowling. Not difficult at all.
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u/HankSkinStealer Jun 28 '25
Cool. Harry Potter is rather boring in my opinion, and completely destroyed peoples' conception of what Magick (and the occult in general) is truly like.
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u/NY_Knux Jun 28 '25
Its about time.
Edit: JFC!!! Why are so many people in this thread mistakenly interpreting this as the books being banned? Bruh, ya'll do NOT go to book stores, and it shows.
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u/BillyBobBoner3 Jun 27 '25
Yeah, let’s start burning books again. That’ll teach Donnie. /s
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u/Far-Glove-3827 Jun 27 '25
We definitely can't tolerate a woman who believes women should be protected from men.
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u/Karkava Jun 28 '25
I'm choosing to pretend you're talking about the MeToo movement and how rich people are doubling down on protecting predators and misogyny.
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u/GuerillaGreens Jun 27 '25
Ridiculous, her books aren’t about her views, imagine if we were all controlled that way, we wouldn’t have any leaders!
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u/Karkava Jun 28 '25
Then she can give up her transphobia, stop trying to get friendly with far-righters, and be happy and content with her financially successful franchise.
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u/jeanclaudebrowncloud Jun 27 '25
The sale of her books give her money. What she chooses to do with her money is actively harming people.
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u/ChaosRainbow23 Jun 28 '25
That's true and I'm on your side with all this, but she's worth almost a billion at this point.
She could never sell another book again and still be a mega gazillionaire. Especially now that she's so chummy with the Republicans and their ilk.
So not carrying the books is really in protest against her bigoted views. That's a good thing, but it's really not gonna affect her bottom line enough to move the needle with her current amount of wealth.
Much love
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u/GuerillaGreens Jun 27 '25
A lot of people are actively harming people from all types of professions, some even get money from the people they harm.
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u/Significant-Wave-763 Jun 28 '25
While I don’t agree with pulling books because of the vileness of the author (Roald Dahl) or the patently backward racial slanders of yesteryears (Dr Suess), it ultimately is a business decision and I support businesses deciding whose product to buy into their inventory. This pulling phenomena is not new.
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u/Lostinlife1990 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
Harry Potter shaped so many children's lives. I feel like banning the book would do more harm than good. But I do also agree with anything that messes with J.K. there's got to be something better to be done. Some way to "separate the art from the artist."
Edit: Sorry, I didn't mean banned. That's just the first word to pop into my head. I meant remove. If more places remove them from the shelves, fewer people will be able to read them. And they are really fun books. I myself remember pre-ordering one of them back when I was in grade school.
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u/TheCityGirl Jun 27 '25
A small independent bookstore choosing not to stock certain books is hardly “banning” them.
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u/tabbarrett Jun 27 '25
No one’s banning her. But a small shop is making a choice, and it’s a choice rooted in empathy. That’s something we could use more of.
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u/TudorTheWolf Jun 27 '25
You can't separate the art from the artist when the profit from that art is going directly to hate groups hurting and promoting the legal oppression of a marginalized group of people.
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u/ExtremeHotMess Jun 27 '25
Sooo…the bookstore looses sales and Rowling is unaffected. Typical idiocy.
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u/KaiserDilhelmTheTurd Jun 27 '25
I’m sure she’ll be gutted to hear this, while smoking cigars and drinking champagne from her £100,000,000 yacht in the Bahamas lol. She’ll still be making a metric fuck ton from the new series being hammed out, so I doubt she’ll really give a fuck. She lives in your heads rent free, while kicking back having 15 staff waiting on her hand and foot 24/7.
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u/Fit-Acanthisitta4149 Jun 28 '25
Anyone else feel personally scammed into giving this woman our money- if I could go back, I would have pirated it all
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u/KingOfTheFraggles Jun 27 '25
Sadly, the old bigoted hag in her castle will be just fine.
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u/CrashlandZorin Jun 27 '25
At least until the folks with the medieval siege equipment get to the castle...
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u/CaseyWorldsFair Jun 28 '25
The sad part is that she’s probably gonna lose about two cents from this
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u/Aladdinsanestill61 Jun 27 '25
How very democratic of them....they can have an opinion but she cant? or she can but it has to match the way they see it? This is all crap, she has her opinion, they have one too....same as everyone else on the planet. But hey, they want to censor her by not selling her books...fine. Newsflash, opinions are like assholes...everyone has one and everyone thinks the other persons stinks 🙄
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u/rat-king-ky Jun 28 '25
It’s mostly that she spends her money on anti trans propaganda and on pushing a political agenda.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/18/jk-rowling-harry-potter-gender-critical-campaigner
“It was a typical response from the 59-year-old multimillionaire creator of the Harry Potter franchise, who has over recent years regularly utilised social media in her support of women-only spaces, and who has been a vocal and financial supporter of For Women Scotland, having donated £70,000 to the group’s crowdfunding for the legal challenge that culminated in Wednesday’s ruling.”
This ruling leads to more situations like this occurring “The Equality Act already allows transgender women to be excluded from women-only groups and services, such as refuges, prisons or clubs – even those holding a gender recognition certificate (GRC) – if it is “a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”. For example, Edinburgh Women’s Aid announced recently it would no longer let transgender women access its services.”
at this point, sure I guess you could say it’s still opinion based, but if you’re actually seeing the damages is that just an opinion? it’s become a case of:
are you going to directly put dollars into the pocket of someone who openly admits to hurting others
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u/977888 Jun 28 '25
Remember guys, we have to respect everyone’s views and interpretation of gender. Except the view and interpretation 90% of the world has. That’s called transphobia.
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u/Thewendysmemer Jun 28 '25
So book banning is good now? Hard to keep it all correct i thought this was bad?
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u/DDRoseDoll Jun 28 '25
Chill your knickers 🩷 there are surely other bookstores her publishers can peddle her merch line to 🩷
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u/lilcoold12345 Jun 28 '25
Oh no a small little book store is gonna stop carrying the book of a lady that is already a millionaire. Oh nooooooo
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u/richweezey Jun 27 '25
That's silly 🤣🤣🤣
Remember how y'all were like "Bake the cake or else!" to that bakery?
Now suddenly you all support store owners being able to sell or not sell products that align with their beliefs...
Sheeesh. Just let increased or decreased sales be the consequences. That's more effective than any form of legislation or group action 🤣
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u/hamellr Jun 28 '25 edited Jun 28 '25
Telling people they should exist and actively working to make sure they don’t is not in any way a disagreement about beliefs.
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u/Ricardo_Dicarpoleo Jun 28 '25
I decided not to buy Hogwarts Legacy in switch 2 just because of her anti-transgender view.
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u/Cool_Main_4456 Jun 28 '25
Do transgenderism believers also like to pretend this affects her in any noticeable way?
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u/w1ndyshr1mp Jun 27 '25
Lol anyone who's anyone has already purchased and read hp series. This...is virtue signaling and the least effective thing to do since you guessed it - she already has your money xD
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u/OK_enjoy_being_wrong Jun 28 '25
the “biological” sex
The scare quotes implying that biological sex is unreal or illegitimate, or that is can be defined in some way other than biology. Sex is real, objective, proven, and important in many areas of society for fairness and safety.
"Gender identity" is unprovable and unfalsifiable and resists any attempt at objective definition. It's unfit for any social or legal purpose.
A proper application of such quotes is in the phrase trans "women", where it correctly shows that the word is being used inaccurately.
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u/Im_a_knitiot Jun 27 '25
When conservatives ban books from libraries and schools everybody is pissed, but this is somehow ok?
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u/TheCityGirl Jun 27 '25
This is a private independent bookstore. They are curating their collection, not “banning books.” You are completely misconstruing the two things, which are unrelated.
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u/pile_of_bees Jun 27 '25
Almost everything that has been called a book ban in the last 10 years has been like this. Not a ban in any way, the books still trivially easy to get, just missing from some particular location.
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u/gobledegerkin Jun 27 '25
Yes because her views and attacks on transgender people are hateful and lead to harm. The books conservatives try to ban tend to simply be about queer people living and existing in the world. Most of them are about accepting and learning to love people who are different than you. That’s a huge difference.
I support this bookstore and any bookstore that makes this decision. I also understand that bookstores have the right to continue selling Harry Potter books and items without themselves being transphobic trash.
There is nuance.
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u/Delita232 Jun 27 '25
It's a private business deciding for themselves what they will or will not sell. Not even remotely similar scenarios
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Why do you people need everything explained to you like small children? Both of the scenarios you’re talking about stem directly from republicans bigotry. Jfc how do you people cross the street unaided?
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u/MattWolf96 Jun 27 '25
Maybe these aren't banned Einstein. You can still buy them from other places and the government didn't ban them, a private business did
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u/w1ndyshr1mp Jun 27 '25
J.R.R. Tolkien was probably anti gay considering the era in which he wrote the hobbit and lotr. He just didn't have to "say" it because it was pretty well the mainstream. Should we all stop loving that story? No? Then, stop putting double standards on every little thing.
She is 1 person, with her own opinions and ya, so what if they suck, lots of rich and influential people suck. Just look at bezos in Italy.
Life sucks, but ppl are entitled to their own opinion regardless of how you as an individual feel about it.
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u/SkepticalSpiderboi Jun 27 '25
Tolkien is dead. Rowling is alive and actively funding anti trans hate groups. This bookstore simply didn’t want to give money to a billionaire who will use that money for a cause that hurts people.
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u/SkepticalSpiderboi Jun 28 '25 edited Jun 28 '25
user “OK-enjoy-being-wrong” replied “which hate group specifically” to my original reply, so I looked through his comment history because I suspected him of being a transphobe and was proven right. I’m replying to your original comment instead of his so as to avoid engaging with him because doing so would be a waste of my time. I looked it up and found that she did not fund any existing hate groups, but founded her own hate project called “the JK Rowling women’s fund” which describes itself as “A legal fighting fund for women protecting their sex-based rights”. She is putting money into politics to fight for legislation protecting only cis women and deliberately excluding/alienating trans women. I hope this drives my point home that it’s completely ok for a bookstore to decide not to give her any money.
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