• Manalith@midwest.socialEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Not sure where you’re at but I do this frequently. Also do an IMDb pick an actor and a movie and see how quickly you can get that movie by navigating cast lists and credits I.e Will Smith > Ad Astra

      Will Smith > Men in Black > Tommy Lee Jones > Ad Astra. That’s a simple one, but you get the idea.

  • heliotrope@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    16 days ago

    EDIT: She’s a holocaust denier, which I didn’t know. Guess she is a nazi after all!

    Here’s the link (from Political views of J. K. Rowling):

    She is very much a TERF, an acephobe, kinda racist (just look at her character names), and therefore quite a horrible person; but, while it wouldn’t surprise me if she was, she is not a nazi.

    • hopesfall@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Honestly, calling everyone a nazi just feeds into the right’s narrative of “oh they call everyone a nazi, ignore them”.

      I’m not defending anyone, especially not J.K. Rowling, but this isn’t helping our cause, quite the contrary actually.

      • nickiwest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Source?

        I have seen zero credible sources for this specific claim of Holocaust denial. The closest I’ve found is that she argued that trans people weren’t the first group targeted by the Nazis. (Not denying that they were targeted. Just disputing that they were first.) That’s not the same as “Holocaust denial.”

        I already know she’s a bad person who uses her celebrity to spread hate and spends her time and money trying to further oppress some of the most marginalized people in the world. We can dislike her for those very real reasons without spreading false stories about her.

    • lemdeggity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I don’t see anything about holocaust denial in your link. There’s a 2018 article discussing parallels between her work and the real holocaust but it doesn’t claim she’s a denier. I don’t really care for Rowling but I also don’t like misinformation. If there is some evidence can you please share it?

        • RobotsLeftHand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Imagine being so blinded by bigotry that you think that transgender people, of all the fucking groups, were the one group that nazis were totally cool with.

        • lemdeggity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Thanks for the source although I think that’s quite specific. It seems mostly about her being ignorant and doubling down on her war against trans people rather than a blanket denial of the holocaust which the term “holocaust denier” conjures

          Your article frames it this way:

          While Rowling has not denied the Holocaust itself happened, she is accused of engaging in a form of Holocaust denial for questioning the persecution of trans people under the Nazi regime, a fact which has been well documented

          I’m not denying she’s a cunt but I think it’s important to be precise with these sorts of allegations.

          • femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Would you say someone that says the holocaust did happen but only 1000 Jews were killed is not a holocaust denier?

          • Estiar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            12 days ago

            I think that’s a pretty accurate assessment. I personally haven’t seen any evidence that she’s anti-Semitic and that is the center of Holocaust denialism. I don’t think her claims are driven by conspiracy theories. She just has a million Yes Men who encourage her anti-trans positions and it just feels right to her