What do you think: coincidence or not?
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00:00JK Rowling has long been publicly condemned for transphobic comments, but we need to talk
00:04about her new book, which has a storyline that eerily mirrors her own fall from grace.
00:08Rowling's new fiction book The Ink Black Heart follows an animator who receives public backlash
00:12for their work being racist, ableist, and transphobic. Spoiler alert, the characters
00:17then doxxed, issued death threats, and ultimately stabbed to death. The book addresses the topic of
00:21social justice warriors, and suggests that the protagonist was the victim of a targeted hate
00:25campaign. While Rowling's real life experience was not fatal, the parallels are quite uncanny.
00:30In 2020, Rowling wrote a statement on why she's quote worried about the new trans activism.
00:35More recently, she protested Scotland's gender recognition reform bill that would expedite the
00:39process of legally changing one's gender. Longtime fans of her work, and even some of
00:43the actors from her acclaimed films, have condemned her comments. In a recent interview,
00:48Rowling claims that the similarities between her own life and the story are just one big coincidence.
00:53I think everyone's going to see this as a response to what happened to me, but it
00:56genuinely wasn't. The first draft of the book was finished at the point where certain things happened.