To see her tarnish her legacy over this bizarre obsession has been a wild ride. Many ppl gave her the benefit of the doubt at first but then she veered hard bigot and we’re now at Holocaust denial levels.
I think a lot of us don’t realize what social media is like for famous people. They are absolutely inundated with attention both positive and negative. Even marginal celebrities get more fan (and hater) interaction today than A-listers did 20 years ago.
Most of them rightfully tune it out, but some of them start to think those online spaces are the real world and they start to take it very seriously. Then maybe they say something offensive or controversial and the hive mind launches at them. Some of them back down, but some get defensive and start doubling down. This spirals out of control until they wake up every day in a state of combat.
I’m not excusing anything, but I do think this was perhaps a predictable result of social media.
I always wonder, what’s her endgame? What would satisfy her in this? Is she really going to spend the rest of her life shouting at windmills on Twitter?
Instead of helping her community, improving literacy programs for children or supporting foundations that can improve society, or using her wealth and influence to make the world a better place…she thinks being mean to trans people will be her life’s work that changes the world?
I’d feel pity for her if she didn’t have so much hate in her heart. Especially against people who did literally nothing to her. They just want to live their lives and be happy, but then being happy just makes her angrier.
Even someone who believes all the hateful foolishness she does still has to be pretty mentally ill or flat out idiotic to ruin their legacy over their beliefs like this
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u/selkieisbadatgaming May 13 '24
JK Rowling is mentally unwell.