Coltrane’s “defense” of Rowling amounts to 0% substantive engagement with any of her arguments & 100% scolding of her critics for being thin-skinned snowflakes who take offense at everything. It could’ve been recycled wholesale from any generic broadside against “Cancel Culture”.
Coltrane’s defense of Rowling’s mirrors her own: having long ago dismissed the validity of anything her critics could be saying about her (no matter how frequent such criticisms have become), his only explanation is that there must be some “woke mob” eager to be offended.
Indeed, the backlash against so-called “Cancel Culture” removes the focus from the target and onto the anonymous masses on the Internet for being mean to them.
What’s the reason? It doesn’t matter. “Twitter is being mean to me!” There, there.
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