At school we would read novels aloud in English class - we were always expected to read the words out loud no matter how offensive. The n-word is used across various forms of media and literally everyone in the western world will have encountered it
This has made me genuinely curious about something: if you're white, and you didn't grow up in an explicitly racist household, how did you first learn about the n-word? I can't imagine there's a standard procedure for that sort of thing.
Imagine an American sitting through a Standard Grade English class where the kids have to read Of Mice and Men aloud and have to say every word because “that’s the way it was written”
@jillcb7@IndiaWilloughby@jk_rowling It’s a shop. People who work in shops are EXPECTED to ask customers if they need assistance. She was literally doing her job.
Jinkx Monsoon mocks J.K. Rowling’s transphobia in a recent interview with Ziwe:
“I know that oftentimes, female authors use initials so that people assume it’s a male writer. I have to presume that J.K. Rowling was unsatisfied with the way that the world saw her, and then she transitioned herself into a new personality so that the world would perceive her the way she wanted to be perceived.”
JK Rowling doesn't speak for women.
JK Rowling doesn't speak for LGBTQIA+ people.
JK Rowling doesn't speak for children.
JK Rowling speaks for JK Rowling, and JKR is an anti-LGBTQ+ bigot.