A pop culture museum in Seattle has scrubbed all references to renowned “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling because of the novelist’s “super hateful and divisive” views.
Rowling, 58, has been the subject of leftist scorn since the summer of 2020, when she stated — much like famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins — that there are only two sexes, male and female.
Museum of Pop Culture Project Manager Chris Moore, who is transgender, previously explained in a blog post the decision to airbrush Rowling out of the museum’s display.
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“There’s a certain cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity in the world of ‘Harry Potter’ and, this time, it is not actually a Dementor,” the manager wrote in the May 26 post. “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.”
Moore continued, “For the time being, the curators decided to remove any of her artifacts from this gallery to reduce her impact. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s what we were able to do in the short-term while determining long-term practices.”
According to the Daily Mail, the Seattle museum has retained references to “Harry Potter” but has removed anything that could suggest its author is Rowling.
The backlash against Rowling began when she tweeted in June 2020 that it “isn’t hate speech to speak the truth” about the biological reality of the male-female sexual binary. At the time, she wrote, “[E]rasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives.”
The British-born novelist later spoke out against the contradictions of leftist thought, that is, those who claim there are an innumerable number of sexes while at the same time suggesting an individual can be born into the wrong one of two sexes.
“The contradictions drive me crazy,” Rowling wrote. “We’re simultaneously told gender is innate and inborn, and that it’s a choice, a performance. All of these things cannot be true. If it’s a choice, then, clearly, it’s not innate.”
Last week, Dawkins, a well-known atheist scientist, described it as “distinctly weird” and an “odd distortion of reality” to believe there are more than two sexes.
“To me, as a biologist, [it’s] distinctly weird,” he said. “People can simply declare, ‘I am a woman, though I have a penis.’”
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