As much as I admire Rowling for her principled stance on trans abuses, I agree that her beat down on Watson wasn't a good look. Rowling doesn't get superiority points for being poor when young or any other of her personal experiences. She is much older than Watson, and has long past made her "fuck you"money. Rowling was jumping on the race bandwagon a few years ago and commenting about Hermione being black. Given Watson was barely early 20s when jumping on the trans wagon, I think she also gets to make a few mistakes and maybe be more selective about wading into politics. The death threats (unless credible) are noise. Lots of celebrities get them and there is plenty of "kill XX" all over the Farms. Punching down doesn't impress me.
Watson was 29 the first time she explicitly mentioned trans issues, and again only after (and obviously in reaction to) Rowling's essay. Do people not know how time works, most of this stuff happened post 2018. It has not been that long. Deathly Hallows was 2011 friend, that's when she was "barely" early 20s, Troon time was late 20s early 30s.
It’s always the same profile of some tunnel-vision retard who sees the world in black and white but condescendingly pontificates as if they have something to teach people. Like YOU are the one who doesn’t get the big picture. Please spare us.
Yes, its tedious whataboutism. Hell, the very fact that you can't talk about Rowling without her stance of refugees, whatever it may be, coming up, and without some dude crawling out of the woodwork to gargle bile and spit venom about black Hermione is a huge part of the problem. Do you know how hard it is to talk about the problems of mass, unregulated migration with normies when just around the corner there's some dude waiting to just start screaming about irrelevant culture war shit, about how the very presence of a black person in some alt history netflix garbage is an affront to them, no matter how many housewives love to fantasize about the lead faggot? Not everyone who opposes migration wants a triple walled ethnostate as the alternative, and the screeching internet banshees in favor of it don't make getting people to understand the reality of the situation any easier. Especially not when they engage in literally the same extreme cancelling behavior troons and their allies do, that we are laughing at in this thread at this very moment!
Hermione being black in the play literally doesn't matter, it's a fucking play, by the very nature of the art its expected that the characters will shift wildly in visual appearance by production. There are in fact entire productions, including a major broadway hit that I won't bother naming (because I hate it and it sucks, but box office numbers don't lie on whether or not its popular), that are based on basically that premise. Was it an absurd stretch of the truth to say that the book didn't mention Hermione's skin color? Obviously yes, the context and descriptions given to her make it clear that she was not intended as black. But it literally a nothingburger, something that does not fucking matter, and trying to frame it that way would have been way too much fucking effort to counter something so fucking stupid. Its the same way all the troons bitching about x cartoon property being transphobic for making their tomboy character "cis" does not matter. Were any of you frothing at the mouth the time Patrick Stewart played Othello?
This is literally the type of thing that alienates people and pushes them back towards liberal talking points.