The woke left goes after Hogwarts legacy for the supposed transphobia of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

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All the things in culture, all the things in life must reflect the dictates of the

woke left. It's the most authoritarian force in American life right now. And that is clearly

true, particularly in the culture where they have the whip hand. The simple fact of the matter

is that the woke left occupies all of the slots in middle

management that all the companies that decide exactly how culture is to be done. That is true

whether we're talking about woke corporations in non-culture spaces or whether we are talking

about culture itself. And that means that they are able to generate an outsized amount of

attention and rage directed at particular people. The person who is on the chopping block today, of course, and has been for a couple of years, is J.K. Rowling. J.K. Rowling is apparently the worst person in the world. Sure, you say, she's the person who wrote Harry Potter. And sure, she's even on the left. You'll remember that she foolishly decided to retcon Dumbledore into a gay dude. There was nothing in the books that suggest that he was gay. But then she was pushed, why isn't there anyone gay in Harry Potter? And she's like, well, I guess Dumbledore was gay. And then they had to make an entire series, Fantastic Beast, dedicated to the proposition that we need a backstory for Dumbledore in which he likes dudes. Again, all of that is because the woke left always has the whip hand. and J.K. Rowland gave in to a point. But then she refused to give in to the big one, which is men can be women and women can be men. It turns out that J.K. Rowling is pretty invested in the idea that only women, biological women, can be women. And this has made her a persona non grata among members of the woke left. Again, despite the fact that she is a

member of the political left herself. They have declared that she's a trans-exclusionary radical

feminist because apparently you are a turf if you believe in basic human biology. And this means

that there has now been a widespread attempted boycott of Hogwarts legacy. Now, as we will see,

wokeism doesn't actually succeed in the marketplace. It actually leads to tremendous failure in the marketplace, but it does

succeed in pushing the Overton window to the left steadily and not all that slowly. According to Forbes,

the highly anticipated Harry Potter video games debuted this week, but it's been plagued by

controversy and boycotts as players grapple with whether to support JK Rowling's franchise in light of her

history of comments widely seen as transphobic. Hogwarts Legacy is a role-playing game set in the

Harry Potter universe and developed by avalanche software and published by Warner Brothers games.

It will be released on February 10th. The game has garnered largely positive reviews on places like Metacritic. However, some fans and gamers are boycotting the game in protest of J.K. Rowling. Because, of course, she has said that men are men and women are women. Some popular game review sites like Kotaku, Polygon, and Eurogamer, have not yet reviewed Hogwarts Legacy, despite the review embargo lifting on Mondaday. Others have denounced J.K. Rowling's comments and voiced support for transgender people in their reviews. Jesse Earle, one trans YouTuber and writer, tweeted in December that unlike consuming previously owned Harry Potter books or films, purchasing Hogwarts Legacy while Rowling is, quote, using her ongoing platform to target and also justify her continued targeting of trans people is hateful

to trans people. Ralling responded accusing her of Purethink. Some streamers on Amazon-owned

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