Thread by @BadWritingTakes

In JK Rowling's latest - and potentially most bigoted and dangerous - diatribe against transgender people and the LGBTQ+ community, she implies that Harry Potter's Death Eaters were stand-ins for queer people campaigning for equal rights.

Yes, really. Buckle up 🧵

#JKRvsLGBTQ

It is incredibly funny that JK Rowling has convinced herself that her nazi-code villains were evil not because of all the fascism and racism but because they didn't like people "disagree[ing]" with their opinions.

It's like she's been bitten by a radioactive Times columnist.

This is fairly obvious revisionist Cope from JK Rowling.

Death Eaters did not hate people for "disagree[ing]" with them. They hated them for their lack of blood purity - literally for how they were born.

They, like Rowling and the TERF movement, were biological essentialists.

Death Eaters were "made to live in secret" because they were murderous fascists.

Trans and LGBTQ+ people are forced to live in the closet because we might get murdered for existing, & because people like JK Rowling work hard to make society as hostile as possible to queer lives.

In fact, it's not even true that Death Eaters lived in secret!

They had goddamn magic nazi tattoos no one ever commented on.

"Oh but how could they tell if they'd been mind controlled?" YOU WROTE IN FREAKING TRUTH POTIONS JOANNE!

... Rowling really is terrible at worldbuilding

Which might go some way to explain why her new conspiracy theory seems to have copied the homework of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Yes, that's JK Rowling, going full Alex Jones and describing those who support LGBTQ+ equality as "powerful" and "insidious".

#JKRvsLGBTQ

Whenever conspiracy theorists claim that a marginalised and oppressed minority group are part of some secret, powerful, nefarious sect exerting sinister control from the shadows, it's worth taking a look at what's actually happening to that group in the real world right now:

JK Rowling has never condemned or commented on any of these.

Does she believe a murdered 16 year old girl, finally laid to rest on the same day JKR's conspiracies were published, was "insidious"?

Do you want to explain why replies have to be turned off on posts of mourning, Jo?

Well that's a problem for future JK Rowling to worry about, apparently.

We're not sure what "time" is going to tell Rowling that she isn't perfectly capable of finding out today if she wanted to.

If deaths, loss of rights, and calls for genocide aren't enough for her, what is?

JK Rowling has the luxury of being glib about "Time" because for her it doesn't matter.

What's she going to do if "Time" tells her she was wrong? Say "oops"? Bung a few quid to a charity to try to wash the blood from her hands?

LGBTQ+ people simply don't have time to spare.

But of course, JK Rowling is never going to acknowledge that she's wrong.

"you cannot argue me out of this" is an incredibly weird thing to admit to when you've claimed to be in favour of listening and "debate", but it's probably the most honest statement Rowling's made in years

When Rowling boasts "you cannot argue me out of this" she is ultimately admitting that no amount of logical reasoning, no amount of evidence, no amount of harm coming to the targets of her ideology, will ever be enough to pierce her iron-clad bigotry.

JK Rowling says No Debate.