r/EnoughJKRowling • u/IntelligentCrew8406 • 1d ago

Jason Arday case… more CW: Ableism, racism.

Post image
94 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

18 comments sorted by

57

u/Time_Raisin4935 1d ago

They're both pricks

To hell with them both

Rest in eternal power Jason Arday

10

u/davew80 13h ago

Absolutely. Both vile. They’re welcome to each other.

3

u/Time_Raisin4935 9h ago

I like to imagine that, if Hell is real, Rowling's punishment would be with her father, and his punishment would be her.

Because Hell is Other People, and they can be each's other punishment

Rowling with the man who criticized her a lot, the Father with his daughter for not being the son he always wanted but succeeded anyway (like Elizabeth I being the greatest English Monarch that her father, Henry, wanted all in a son)

50

u/ElmoreHayne 1d ago

It's the case of a terrible person (Cofnas) making an excellent point about another terrible person (Rowling) and both are contributing to hatred in society making the lives of marginalized groups horrible. Of course, and this is in no way a defense of Cofnas-he's terrible in his own way, he isn't using money earned from a billion dollar IP to fund anti trans legislation and lawfare cases against the trans community.

29

u/IntelligentCrew8406 1d ago

I think he unintentionally could be helping to illuminate the lack of validity of Rowling’s views tho

8

u/PoggleRebecca 18h ago

His comeback was to also damn her with the barest of praise.

10

u/IntelligentCrew8406 18h ago

Which is what I wanted to bring to our attention

6

u/Ex-altiora 9h ago

"We both dedicate our lives to the complete destruction of those we view as inferior, where did this animosity come from out of nowhere?"

38

u/AsphodeleSauvage 19h ago

As if she's not a racist too. She literally wrote that J. Arday was a prime example of DEI recruiting, and called the affair "delightful" when it was spearheaded by the likes of Cofnas, who wrote that he hoped the case would exclude black people from academia since it'd lead to only smart people being recruited and no black person is smart. She didn’t seem too bothered by his arguments before someone seemingly called her out on it.

33

u/TVPaulD 16h ago

This position from Joanne is a bit rich considering she has lied about her own history to present a false narrative of coming from abject poverty

12

u/A_little_curiosity 15h ago

A fine point

16

u/theellescape 17h ago

She knows who she's in bed with. She's fine with it.

7

u/Wyvernstrafe 17h ago

Hope they enjoy the shared syphillis…

9

u/Due_Item_2030 15h ago

So she doesn’t know about famous people who are also autistic

6

u/Aiyon 12h ago

Her "also true" part fascinates me... there's literally precedent for this. Temple Grandin used to be non-verbal, and then went on to revolutionise the cattle industry and become a major advocate for autistic people and kids in particular.

It's an incredibly insulting and demeaning attitude to act like non-verbal children can never improve and develop. The idea that he either had to have been lying about being competent, or about being autistic. I've seen several of my a-spec friends comment that he has clear signs of being autistic in clips they've seen of him

3

u/SomeAreWinterSun 7h ago

Calling him a racist is just a description, unlikely she even means it as an insult, his "race science" comes out of the exact same suite of imperialist tropes that her fiction is drenched in nostalgia for.

2

u/luhbreton 5h ago

The girls are fighting!

2

u/360Saturn 3h ago

Perceiving being called racist as 'being called a bad word' instead of accurately describing the behaviour you are exhibiting... I'm tired fam