Funny what a little bit of Holocaust denialism will get you trending with.
Also, worth noting that calling it “Holocaust denialism,” as Aye and Alejandra Carabello (and myself) have, is not hyperbole.
JK Rowling is denying that trans people were targetted by the Nazis, and promoting the tweets of known anti-trans activists screeching that any insistence that we were is “the LGBTQ+ lobby” revising history. That is, by a 2022 ruling on a case regarding similar tweets by the Regional Court of Cologne, (translation) “a denial of Nazi crimes.”
She is, by German court precedent, quite literally engaging in an element of Holocaust denial.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with the Nazis’ destruction of both gay and trans culture in Germany, Germany had a sympathetic gay and trans health clinic in the early 1900s. The Nazis destroyed it and burned literature studying homosexuality, gender noncomformity, and what we now understand to be transgenderness or transexuality. This took place only 3 months after Hitler came into power.
In addition to homosexuality, crossdressing was illegal under the Hitler regime even though trans people had (albeit limited) rights prior to his rise to power. And before anyone says it, the trans holocaust victims we talk about weren’t misidentified crossdressers, drag artists, or gender-nonconforming people. One trans woman, Liddy Barcroff, died in a concentration camp for her “crossdressing” after telling arresting police “my sense of my sex is fully and completely that of a woman.” The queer community, all of us, suffered huge losses both in individuals and in education and understanding during the Holocaust. Denying any part of that is offensive and dangerous.
It’s also important to add that the founder of that institute was Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who was a gay Jew. This allowed Nazis to claim that Jews were promoting homosexuality to “destroy the family” and weaken the white race.
You know, pretty much exactly what Republicans are saying now, just in dogwhistles.
Learning about the Ides of March in middle school was so surreal for me because it’s my birthday, so when the teacher started talking about March 15th and Caesar’s murder, everyone who knew my birthday gave me the side eye like I was the one who stabbed him, so I was sitting there like
Don’t know how many times I’ve showed a non-Tumblr person a Tumblr post and had the whole thing derail because the poor soul actually read someone’s user name.
“Why does it say–” *squints at the screen* “….aziraphale’s flaming cock??”
This may seem like I’m trying to boost my brother but here me out
I’m posting this on this blog cause it has the most traction:
does anyone wanna prank my brother? He’s a small music artist (a really bad one) with hardly any listeners and he’s tryna get big and I think it would be funny if he woke up to a bunch likes on some of his songs
The next day I want everyone to unlike everything
If this gets 50 notes (reblogs appreciated) I’ll set the dates
Please I beg of you
Alright I’m thinking march 14th for following, and then the 15th for unfollowing
His Spotify:
@bbeeew had the excellent idea of liking his stuff again the next day for max confuzzlement and all I have to say is that so long as you guys keep giving me ideas to cause pain, the more ima say yes.
Konstrakta builds on this notion with her climactic chant in Latin, highlighting how society has completely forgotten to register one’s mental health as a marker for how healthy we are. She sings how the body is healthy, but the mind is sick, sad, frightened, and desperate; yet this all means nothing as long as we appear well on the outside.
i see posts here about how people are so mortified when they are acknowledged as being a regular customer somewhere that they never return. cowards. the employees at taco bell treat me like a celebrity. like royalty. i am their strange little pet customer who gets traded along as staff comes and goes. they know my car before i even speak in the drive-thru speaker. today i was 2 hours late and she ran over and squealed that she “thought i’d left them!” and that she “made my order with extra love!” and you what, she did
it’s funny that this is getting notes again, because last night i went to the thai place in my neighborhood. it’s run by a family and during covid times i ate there literally almost every day. later i cut back on eating out so much and hadn’t been there in two years but last night we went and ate inside for the first time ever and the owner ran over to say hello and ask how i was, and repeated our old regular order. it was sweet. it’s so easy to feel like you are an island, but stuff like this reminds you that you are part of a community.
Being a regular is fucking awesome. I’ve only had that status a few times, but I always feel kind of honored. These people see humans all day every day, and they remembered me?! And not for something bad (as far as I can tell)! I’m flattered af!
I’m pretty sure “making it” as a humanities academic is when they publish all of your important papers as a separate volume and print it on its own. Or those special run volumes where a bunch of your colleagues all write a paper on your pet subject for your 75th birthday or something.
The people who have those are always the real big shots in any given field.
• Donated tons of money to causes which have eroded trans rights across the globe
• Defended slavery in her most popular work (House elves LIKE being slaves thoooo 🙄)
• Used racist caricatures which have racist names in her most popular work
• Used antisemitic caricatures in her most popular work
• And if you’re still “well, but…”-ing the antisemitism of the Goblins, the recent game was straight-up the definition of blood libel
• Used the name of the man who invented conversion therapy as a pseudonym to write books
• And has now engaged in ACTUAL HOLOCAUST DENIAL
Seriously, how bad does she have to get before you all will admit to yourselves that supporting her is the same as supporting nazism??? “It was part of my childhood!” Same!!! And it sucks to admit that something you used to love is actually awful and harmful!!! But also at some point you have to just…move on!!!! “Oh I’m sure its just a mistake!” Why, because she claimed that ONE character is gay and wouldnt even let it be shown ever??? Because the main villain was slightly more cartoonishly racist than she is???? Because one of the most popular characters quit being a cartoon racist *BECAUSE HE WAS HORNY*?
Seriously. Give up Harry Potter. No grey area anymore.
blanka represented poland because if jann and luke black were in the same room the pure power of vampiric slavic twinks would have killed every member of the jury
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