I said it in the tags of a post but honestly, I feel like I need to make my own post because while we’re doing the whole “stop supporting jkr!” thing I need everyone to remember that not only is she blatantly transphobic (and specifically transmisogynistic), but that she and her books are incredibly racist and antisemitic.
Appropriating Indigenous American cultures for her American wizard school. Making all of the bankers in her books hook-nosed goblins. Naming the ONLY East Asian character in the books “Cho Chang” and putting her in the “smart people house”. The way that she treats the Patil Twins, the only two other Asians, and the only South Asians in the series. The way that she treats ALL her characters of color. JKR’s racism has always been there. People just seem to gloss over it for some reason and to be honest, I’m getting really frustrated and tired of constantly adding that racism is a problem in the notes of these posts. And this is literally just based on Harry Potter! The rest of her stuff surely has even more problems!
I don’t want to downplay her transphobia. That’s a huge issue that, I, especially as a trans person, cannot emphasize enough! But as a person of color, I feel like I need to remind y'all that it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I think OP of this post I rbed about JKR’s racism specifically against Indigenous Americans put it perfectly. This has made it painfully obvious that people are white before they are queer.
It’s not that hard just to acknowledge her racism alongside her transphobia. If you’re making a post about her remember that she’s shitty in so many other ways, and she’s always been shitty.
I know this is long but I’m rambling, so…
tl;dr JKR is racist as well as transphobic. Just acknowledge that in your pleas for people to stop supporting her. Please. It’s literally so easy. anyways jkr’s a piece of shit and I hope she burns in hell!!
- sincerely, a trans poc who’s tired of this shit
I did a deep dive into her non-white wizarding schools for a presentation I did and oh boy
-the japanese school is in iwo jima (wow), they have color-coded robes like karate belts, the name of the school is grammatically incorrect with her “canon” pronunciation butchering the words
-the african school is in Uganda but it’s named after the capital of Burkina Faso and on her maps it’s located in the Congo and when you’re invited to the school, you get a rock sent to you
-african wizards dont have wands they just point at things and all of them can naturally turn into animals (YIKES)
-the brazilian school is hidden in the amazon rainforest and disguised as “a ruined stone temple” despite the fact that no masonry historically occurred in the rainforest, making a stone temple an absolutely obtrusive and terrible disguise
jk rowling is literally so fucking dumb and racist she can’t be bothered with anything that doesn’t have to do with white people
Holy shit I didn’t even know about any of this. That is absurdlyracist.
