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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Come on dude. No one has talked more about the nuance around these issues than we have, but there is no nuance about how this happened. It's not her first Olympics, yet this is the first problematic one. JK Rowling and her merry band of far right affiliates haven't shown a single curious thought on this.

I don't doubt that you see it as a complex issue, but you weren't the one screaming about her to begin with.

I don't deny at all that a door has been left wide open to the "right", I just don't think that spawned out of thin air, nor do I think it's the "fault" of anyone in particular, other than anti-intellectualism as a broad concept that spans the entire political spectrum. They don't have a single curious thought about anything whatsoever, that's my point really. Woodlice. They're just "there", and stomping on them might be satisfying but there'll just be more tomorrow. And JK Rowling might be extremely famous and a billionaire but she's at the end of the day just as reactionary as the rest of them, with a bigger platform. I genuinely believe she started out well-meaning. I think there are clear indications that at this point she's unwittingly become marginally radicalised.

Remember when Gove said that the British public are "tired of hearing from experts"? He wasn't wrong, other than the part where it's not just the UK. Very angry, very loud progressives fought (and still fight, hard) against academics concerned with anything resembling reasonable compromise. It's a tactic that can be traced directly to Stonewall.

There's no nuance in describing WHAT has happened in this case but of course there's nuance and complexity in trying to examine how we got here and dividing the issue neatly into goodies and baddies is a huge oversimplification.