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Ralph Fiennes is speaking out about the horrible abuse his friend JK Rowling has, and is receiving over her defense of gender sanity
Ralph Fiennes has mounted a vocal defence of Harry Potter author JK Rowling, saying that the “abuse directed at her is disgusting”.
In an interview with the New York Times, Fiennes discussed his role as Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films and reportedly “bristled” at the controversy surrounding the writer. Fiennes said: “JK Rowling has written these great books about empowerment, about young children finding themselves as human beings. It’s about how you become a better, stronger, more morally centered human being. The verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting, it’s appalling.”
He added: “I mean, I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says about women. But it’s not some obscene, uber-right-wing fascist. It’s just a woman saying, ‘I’m a woman and I feel I’m a woman and I want to be able to say that I’m a woman.’ And I understand where she’s coming from. Even though I’m not a woman.”
Rowling has been subject to threats on social media since publishing an essay on gender identity in 2020, which sparked furious rows over gender identity and trans rights. In August she tweeted a death threat she received after expressing concern over Salman Rushdie, after he had been attacked on stage.
In his New York Times interview, Fiennes also expressed his distaste for “cancel culture”, saying: “Righteous anger is righteous, but often it becomes kind of dumb because it can’t work its way through the grey areas. It has no nuance.”
Good for him.
Good for him my ass! He decries bigotry and then with the same breath calls right wingers fascists. Apparently to him name calling is only bad when it is someone other than himself doing it. Somebody ought to tell that clown that fascism is a left wing invention and that we on the right are not fascists because we don’t want the left grooming our kids or pushing transgender ideology on them.
As far as Rowling goes, just because she’s not down with breaking the binary does not mean her politics are not left wing.