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   https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/07/08/savage-j-k-rowling-tells-   
   author-to-be-sure-to-repent-before-unfollowing-her-on-twitter/   
      
   As you may have read on Twitchy Tuesday night, there was quite a big to-do   
   on Twitter about a letter with 150 progressive signatories that was to be   
   published in Harper’s Magazine’s letters section in the October issue.   
   Ironically, the letter was ostensibly about the growing cancel culture on   
   the Left — such as the New York Times’ editorial page editor being forced   
   out after printing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton — and its concern was that   
   “free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal   
   society, is daily becoming more constricted.”   
      
   As Twitchy reported, though, signatories started to drop like leaves from   
   a tree when they saw who else had signed the exact same letter, as was the   
   case with author Jennifer Finney Boylan.   
      
   I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing   
   a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know   
   Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company.   
      
   The consequences are mine to bear. I am so sorry.   
      
   — Jennifer Finney Boylan ?? (@JennyBoylan) July 7, 2020   
      
   One of the problematic names on the letter was “Harry Potter” author J.K.   
   Rowling, who’s been branded a transphobe for believing a woman and a trans   
   woman are not the same things.   
      
   Rowling was probably responsible for quite a few lefties asking to have   
   their names removed from the letter about open-mindedness, and she gave   
   Boylan some advice with a witch’s flair:   
      
   You’re still following me, Jennifer. Be sure to publicly repent of your   
   association with Goody Rowling before unfollowing and volunteer to operate   
   the ducking stool next time, as penance. https://t.co/SgjGDt1dcF   
      
   — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 8, 2020   
      
   pic.twitter.com/zqZBydAfBo   
      
   — Andrew S. (@shoutingboy) July 8, 2020   
      
   Holy shit, JK Rowling is a low-key savage and she seems willing to die on   
   the hill of free speech.   
      
   It's one worth dying on. Please don't back down. https://t.co/W239jtuv7c   
      
   — Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) July 8, 2020   
      
   By the time all the squabbling is over, she’ll probably be the only name   
   left.   
      
   You are the hero we needed.   
      
   — Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) July 8, 2020   
      
   This all started because you said women menstruate, right? I mean… it's   
   true. What's the problem?   
      
   — I didn't vote for him, so think of a new retort (@jtLOL) July 8, 2020   
      
   Jk Rowling said women menstruate (I know: shocker) but apparently that   
   isn't common knowledge to some people so they're mad… Plus this is what   
   she said about trans people: pic.twitter.com/SfSk3o4Y9e   
      
   — Stan JK Rowling ???? (@fx_tsc) July 8, 2020   
      
   Please update if Jenny unfollows. I like to watch the real-time groupthink   
   compliance action.   
      
   PS. Keep on keeping on, JKR. Our daughters need role-models like you.   
      
   — Vanessa ??? (@NeedaGin) July 8, 2020   
      
   You continue to handle everything so beautifully, and it's such a relief   
   for those of us who feel the same way to have ideas publicly articulated   
   so well, and to see your bravery in standing firm and not cowing under the   
   pile-on. Thank you.   
      
   — Brogan (@Brke90) July 8, 2020   
      
   You are the world's most badass woman JK!   
      
   — Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) July 8, 2020   
      
   Please absolutely destroy these people.   
      
   — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 8, 2020   
      
   JK Rowling taking on cancel culture & speaking the TRUTH about   
   transgenderism is the best part of 2020 politics so far.   
      
   — Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) July 8, 2020   
      
   pic.twitter.com/v0NL8JztkG   
      
   — Jane?? (@52degreesN) July 8, 2020   
      
   pic.twitter.com/Ad8EhrBHg5   
      
   — Maxine Waters' Glasses (@maxinesglasses) July 8, 2020   
      
   My God I love you so much.   
      
   — Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) July 8, 2020   
      
   I support JK Rowling   
      
   — coronavirus (@GladmirPutin) July 8, 2020   
      
   Excellent response. #IStandWithJKRowling   
      
   — ???????? ??? (@olrazzledazzlin) July 8, 2020   
      
   So, she signed a letter about putting an end to cancel culture and got   
   cancelled? Very on brand for 2020 Twitter.   
      
   — Del Preston (@Del_Preston) July 8, 2020   
      
   Huge respect to you for standing firm and being true to the principles of   
   social justice, freedom and decency you have long championed.   
   Inspirational.   
      
   — Matthew d'Ancona (@MatthewdAncona) July 8, 2020   
      
   It’s genuinely lovely to see this being done with such grace, good   
   manners, and yet so effectively.   
      
   — Anthony Potts (@Anthony_Potts) July 8, 2020   
      
   She should definitely think about doing some writing.   
      
   — DaveCovidDave (@davecoviddave) July 8, 2020   
      
   It is incredibly disappointing when people throw you under the bus to save   
   themselves from the baying mob. But that’s on them and their character.   
   You are on the right side of history Joanne and we got your back. ????   
      
   — la scapigliata (@lascapigliata8) July 8, 2020   
      
   I can’t even imagine how exhausting it must be to try to appease everyone   
   all of the time…   
      
   — Zuzus Petals (@zuzuspetals89) July 8, 2020   
      
   Your writings have captured generations, old and young, while creating   
   avid readers born in 1991 and beyond. Your stance on “cancel culture”   
   makes me more of a fan. Thank you for standing strong. It’s crazy.   
      
   — Myra (@myra539) July 8, 2020   
      
   The parallels to the witch trials are getting too on-the-nose to be   
   believed. “She signed her name on the devil’s letter! She keeps the   
   company of known witches!”   
      
   I want to shake everyone who ever read The Crucible and asked “how could   
   everyone go along with that??” This is how.   
      
   — Tom de Guerre (@threecatpileup) July 8, 2020   
      
   Oh my god pic.twitter.com/D38ACe6Xtb   
      
   — Hayley (@HippyDippyHay) July 8, 2020   
      
   Rowling isn’t backing down and it’s glorious.   
      
   * * *   
      
   Updated:   
      
   Rowling got some support from a big name:   
      
   I praise J.K. Rowling for standing her ground.   
   She is a hero of our times. She is not transphobic and neither am I. This   
   fight to preserve the free exchange of ideas is worth having; to protect   
   the hard-won rights of women but also to uphold the principles of our free   
   society.   
      
   — Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@Ayaan) July 8, 2020   
      
   Thank you from the bottom of my heart, @Ayaan. If all the people with   
   public platforms who’re messaging me to say they agree with us but are too   
   scared to stand up found their bravery, we’d have an army.   
   https://t.co/b4PZSXmYpp   
      
   — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 8, 2020   
      
   Too good not to include:   
      
   I signed the Harpers letter because there were lots of people who also   
   signed the Harpers letter whose views I disagreed with. I thought that was   
   the point of the Harpers letter. https://t.co/ozFsAmXq9R   
      
   — Malcolm Gladwell (@Gladwell) July 8, 2020   
      
   Related:   
      
   ‘It isn’t HATE to speak the truth’: J.K. Rowling causes SO MANY meltdowns   
      
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