It is better not to criticize Western culture for those who kill civilians, Rowling said.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on whose instructions a full-scale invasion of Ukraine began a month ago, he explained Russia's criticism of the world's culture of abolition and compared the aggressor country to Harry Potter author Joan Rowling. This opinion was shared by the president, who started the war, at a meeting with the winners of awards in the field of culture and art, according to Russia's Novaya Gazeta.
“Children's writer Joan Rowling was recently” canceled “because she, the author of hundreds of millions of books around the world, did not please fans of so-called gender freedoms. Today they are trying to abolish the whole millennial country, our people, “Putin said.
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At the same time, he is convinced that In the West, the works of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff are “extinct” from concert posters, and books by Russian writers are banned. Putin does not name specific examples of such actions, but believes they are reminiscent of the destruction of “undesirable literature” by the German Nazis.
“The infamous culture of abolition has turned into the abolition of culture,” said the president of the aggressor country.
Putin's remarks did not go unnoticed by Rowling herself. She has already responded to them on Twitter.
“Perhaps it is better not to criticize the Western culture of abolition for those who kill civilians for the crime of resistance, imprison and poison their opponents,” the writer wrote. She attached to the publication a photo of opposition leader Oleksiy Navalny, who was recently sentenced to nine years in prison by a colony court.
Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine https://t.co/aNItgc5aiW
– J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2022
It will be recalled that in the summer of 2020, Rowling wrote an article in which she stated that she was worried about the large number of girls who had made the transgender transition. She has since been criticized by LGBT activists and even Harry Potter movie stars. Rowling was later criticized for her tweet about “menstruating people.” At the end of 2021, it became known that the writer was not invited to participate in the filming of a special episode dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the film franchise about the boy wizard.
On February 24, Putin announced the beginning of a so-called “special operation” in Ukraine, effectively launching a full-scale war in our country. Peaceful people are dying, civilian infrastructure is being destroyed. In response, many countries have imposed sanctions against Russia, and the aggressor market has decided to leave the leading companies that oppose hostilities.
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