SNEAKO - Why The Left Betrayed J.K. Rowling

00:00:00.000 Why did the left turn against J.K. Rowling?

00:00:02.340 The Harry Potter book series is one of the biggest franchises in the world.

00:00:05.840 There's a good chance you've either read the books, seen the movies, played the video games,

00:00:09.960 or even visited the real-life Harry Potter world.

00:00:12.920 In fact, at over 500 million copies sold,

00:00:15.640 the Harry Potter franchise is the best-selling book series in history.

00:00:19.380 But if there's one thing we know, in 2022, nothing is safe or sacred from the left.

00:00:24.540 And no one learned that harder than J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books.

00:00:30.000 You remember when she hit her name because she wanted people to think she was a man? 0.90

00:00:36.100 No one was more surprised by the franchise's popularity than the author herself.

00:00:40.160 Rowling's early life as an author didn't reap much success.

00:00:43.100 While writing the first Harry Potter book, The Sorcerer's Stone,

00:00:46.000 she actually lived off government welfare in a tiny apartment in London.

00:00:48.900 When the book was sent to publishers in 1995,

00:00:52.760 her work was widely rejected until one small publisher picked up the book in 1997.

00:00:57.640 Almost overnight, her books were a colossal success.

00:01:01.040 And over the years that followed, Rowling was almost as active politically as she was artistically.

00:01:06.060 She became well-known for her leftist views,

00:01:08.080 donating millions of dollars to Britain's Labour Party

00:01:10.320 and speaking regularly about the role government should play in expanding welfare and other liberal policies.

00:01:16.040 She's a self-proclaimed feminist, LGBT advocate, 0.93

00:01:18.680 and she routinely speaks out about systemic racism.

00:01:23.360 You can probably guess how she feels about Trump, too. 0.98

00:01:25.920 She's referred to him as a fascist, a bigot, a jo- 0.96

00:01:28.440 So why do they hate her? 0.93

00:01:29.480 What did she say?

00:01:30.460 What was it, some transphobia or something?

00:01:31.960 Orange egg.

00:01:33.000 And even as the main antagonist of her book series, Voldemort himself.

00:01:37.180 Voldemort was worse than Trump?

00:01:38.620 Or, I guess it's he whose name shall not be spoken.

00:01:41.440 Sorry about that for all the Harry Potter fans.

00:01:43.020 Wrong.

00:01:43.280 Conversely, she's praised Hillary Clinton during the election

00:01:48.520 as a, quote, highly intelligent, experienced woman,

00:01:52.360 HAT!

00:01:52.780 I don't like mine!

00:01:53.940 And spent the entirety of Trump's presidency decrying his every move,

00:01:57.200 wishing for a, quote, Clinton or Obama in the White House.

00:02:00.700 Her political views certainly carried over to her books as well.

00:02:03.620 Rowling has been infamous for retroactively changing certain parts of the series,

00:02:07.760 months or even years after the Harry Potter books were published.

00:02:10.540 Apparently, Dumbledore was actually gay the entire time.

00:02:14.020 I don't know how any of us could have missed that.

00:02:18.660 And Hermione? 0.91

00:02:19.420 She was actually black, despite virtually no reference to her skin color or race in any of the books.

00:02:25.240 And thankfully, according to Rowling, you won't have to worry about tuition fees at Hogwarts

00:02:29.080 because the Ministry of Magic is happy to pay off your student loans for you.

00:02:35.500 She's saying all the right talking points in order to get Twitter on her side. 0.98

00:02:39.100 That's right, it sounds like Rowling's reworked Wizarding World was actually quite the progressive paradise.

00:02:43.920 So why then, if she's such a diehard leftist, would the left try and cancel her? 0.99

00:02:48.260 For the influential author of children's literature to be so vehemently anti-trans

00:02:53.640 and to so publicly shame, ridicule, and invalidate trans people is lethal.

00:03:03.240 And I can't talk about it without getting mad.

00:03:05.220 Wouldn't they want someone with so much influence on their side?

00:03:08.340 Yes.

00:03:09.400 But remember, to be on the left is essentially to be in a cult.

00:03:12.920 You can't go in halfway.

00:03:14.540 It's all or nothing.

00:03:16.800 This is actually a cult.

00:03:18.260 Left is essentially to be in a cult.

00:03:19.840 Is that Nancy Pelosi?

00:03:20.420 You can't go in halfway.

00:03:21.840 It's all or nothing.

00:03:22.640 Why are they wearing the, my brother?

00:03:28.480 Don't use the N-word because we are the African Kings.

00:03:31.400 It's just like a BLM scarf.

00:03:33.860 What's the point of her with the mask on if she's not wearing it?

00:03:36.980 Why is this?

00:03:37.900 What is going on in this picture?

00:03:39.660 What in the left?

00:03:40.840 What in the woke am I looking at?

00:03:43.140 Any...

00:03:43.640 You know, people are still wearing this.

00:03:47.520 I was coming back from the airport.

00:03:48.840 Just now.

00:03:49.700 Just getting food right now.

00:03:51.760 When I was buying my eggs and protein shakes at the grocery store.

00:03:55.460 Still wearing masks.

00:03:57.300 Still.

00:03:58.500 It's not over.

00:03:59.520 You know that to enter the United States from a foreign country? 0.94

00:04:03.000 L-Stream.

00:04:03.360 You're one of the...

00:04:04.160 We're one of the five countries in the United States.

00:04:06.180 To force foreigners to be vaccinated just to enter this country?

00:04:09.380 Anything they decide goes, your agency as an individual is totally stripped.

00:04:16.680 And when it comes to the left, full commitment to the cult means agreeing with every leftist 0.97

00:04:20.600 talking point imaginable, no matter how insane or ridiculous you think they might be.

00:04:25.080 If you don't fully commit, if you're even missing 1% of the leftist ideology in the

00:04:28.840 playbook, then not only are you not with the left... 1.00

00:04:31.920 But you're literally a fascist, racist, homophobic bigot. 0.99

00:04:34.900 But in their view, you're actively against them. 1.00

00:04:37.960 Silence is violence.

00:04:39.580 You have to be actively anti-racist.

00:04:42.060 You can't just be...

00:04:43.340 You have to actively burn racism down.

00:04:46.240 And J.K. Rowling made the mistake of only committing halfway to the cult.

00:04:50.980 In December of 2019, she took to Twitter to support a researcher who had been recently

00:04:55.440 fired for, quote, transphobic comments.

00:04:58.440 Well, that's the word the media is using.

00:04:59.980 In reality, the researcher had opposed legislation that would allow people...

00:05:03.320 Could someone change the word of transphobia?

00:05:05.220 Nobody's afraid of trans people.

00:05:06.860 It's just...

00:05:08.180 You understand that men can't become women and women can't... 1.00

00:05:11.380 It's not...

00:05:11.960 Nobody's phobic.

00:05:13.120 Ah!

00:05:13.540 Trans people!

00:05:14.740 Who...

00:05:15.220 Who's actually transphobic?

00:05:17.520 Does anyone have a phobia of trans?

00:05:20.640 Someone's gonna try to be like, yeah.

00:05:22.060 Yeah, me.

00:05:22.420 But...

00:05:22.900 It's just...

00:05:25.520 No, you can't...

00:05:26.800 Did you see that video today of like this male sprinter who became a woman and she's 1.00

00:05:34.200 just fucking, I'm a woman! 1.00

00:05:36.140 I'm a woman! 1.00

00:05:37.780 Smoking all the women? 1.00

00:05:39.640 Or did you see that guy in the UK who just murdered a bunch of people?

00:05:43.320 I think he stabbed like three people and he gets convicted.

00:05:45.740 But before he goes to jail, he becomes a woman, puts on a crop top, and now he goes to a female 1.00

00:05:51.440 prison because he identifies as a woman without doing any...

00:05:54.760 It's not phobia.

00:05:57.140 It's just... 1.00

00:05:57.780 This is clown shit. 1.00

00:05:59.480 It's just clown shit. 1.00

00:06:00.940 So I can say, I'm scared they finna be my ass. 1.00

00:06:02.940 Bro, you need to get in the gym. 1.00

00:06:03.900 If you're afraid of a tranny... 0.98

00:06:05.440 If you can't fight off a tranny, man, you need to get in the gym, bro. 1.00

00:06:07.800 People to choose their gender legally without actually undergoing a medical procedure. 1.00

00:06:11.960 Wyskowski says, bro, that man chick got the fattest ass I've ever seen. 1.00

00:06:15.400 Is that supposed to be a chick? 1.00

00:06:16.420 LMAO.

00:06:16.940 I don't know, man.

00:06:17.800 Just let...

00:06:18.620 You just...

00:06:19.180 It's not even...

00:06:19.740 I don't think of it as a man and a woman. 0.91

00:06:20.960 I just see clown world.

00:06:22.780 I went to school with one trans and it was being sad all day, being alone sad all day. 0.90

00:06:28.480 Bro, I went to school with the trans.

00:06:30.120 I went to a boarding school in high school and the trans person, they built its own dorm room.

00:06:35.480 I want to say it's because I was in the male dorms.

00:06:37.860 I think it was a female that became a man. 0.78

00:06:39.380 And he wanted...

00:06:42.020 She, whatever, wanted to live in the male dorms. 0.89

00:06:44.240 And so they built a room that had it...

00:06:46.240 So we all had to go...

00:06:47.800 Like everybody on the floor, we all had to share the same bathroom.

00:06:50.800 Toilets covered in piss all the time. 0.99

00:06:52.500 Someone's always taking a shit. 0.99

00:06:53.860 People would have like coffee and shaving shit all over the sink. 1.00

00:06:56.960 And this one tranny, they got their own bathroom. 1.00

00:07:00.500 Why? 0.94

00:07:01.800 Commit.

00:07:02.540 Like if you're going to come into the male dorms, be... 0.96

00:07:04.860 What's the point of even living in the male dorms if you're going to have your own bathroom and be here?

00:07:08.080 And if you're supposed to be your own...

00:07:10.340 If you're supposed to become a man, why are you still getting privileges of your own...

00:07:15.700 Like nobody...

00:07:16.980 You can't earn the merits to even get your own room, to have a single room and not sleep in a bunk bed.

00:07:22.300 You have to be like a proctor, an RA, for example.

00:07:25.860 You have to be in charge. 1.00

00:07:27.460 This tranny got all these privileges for cutting a dick off. 1.00

00:07:31.700 You cut your dick off and here's a bathroom. 1.00

00:07:34.080 Yay! 1.00

00:07:34.320 The tranny was always celebrated, always got all these privileges. 0.99

00:07:39.240 It's like, are you trying to assimilate?

00:07:40.740 Are you trying to become a man or not?

00:07:42.220 Why are you getting all these extra hula hoops?

00:07:44.980 BTR got reported for taking the elevator and the trans was rushing to take a picture of me.

00:07:50.140 I don't even know what you're talking about, but...

00:07:53.440 Yeah.

00:07:55.120 Rowling expressed disdain over the firing while trying her best to appeal to the left in the process.

00:07:59.800 But ultimately, as most arguments with mobs are, it was futile.

00:08:03.920 The second she showed even an ounce of disapproval to the left, especially to the sacred transgender community,

00:08:09.520 she became a target for them, as opposed to an advocate.

00:08:12.960 After all that grifting for Hillary Clinton, after all that Nancy Pelosi and Trump hating,

00:08:19.220 it doesn't work, man.

00:08:20.540 The woke, woke is a cult.

00:08:22.980 Woke is a cult.

00:08:23.920 And you could argue that the all, like the right, I guess the red pill is a cult too.

00:08:27.780 But what's a better cult?

00:08:28.900 People who are, we're chugging eggs, we're in the gym every day, we're making money online,

00:08:34.000 we're starting our own businesses, we're motivating each other. 0.99

00:08:36.400 Or would you rather be in a cult of blue-haired dick cutters? 0.98

00:08:40.660 Would you rather be in a cult of cancel culture and bringing people down and making hit pieces? 0.99

00:08:45.780 What do you think is a better one?

00:08:47.240 Thank you for the five.

00:08:48.500 Hey, Steve, this is my first donor.

00:08:49.420 I'm a full-time college student.

00:08:50.460 I work a part-time job.

00:08:51.200 Can I still join Creativity Kit?

00:08:52.380 Is it a big-time commitment?

00:08:53.340 I'm worried if I can get much out of it.

00:08:55.340 Bro, you stop.

00:08:57.120 Everyone is in here.

00:08:58.180 It's $50 a month.

00:08:59.740 I'm teaching you.

00:09:00.440 I have different professors every single day of the week.

00:09:02.540 I have calls every single day.

00:09:04.640 It's a good community.

00:09:05.860 Like, stop coming in here.

00:09:07.380 Well, can you talk to me specifically if I should buy it?

00:09:10.440 Check out the website.

00:09:11.440 If you don't like it, you don't need to buy it.

00:09:13.080 It's only 1,000 people could join tomorrow. 1.00

00:09:14.820 And just fuck off now. 1.00

00:09:16.400 Like, I don't know. 1.00

00:09:17.600 Well, this is what you should do as a college student. 1.00

00:09:20.020 Fuck off, bro. 1.00

00:09:20.920 Look at the website. 1.00

00:09:21.900 If you think it's worth it, fine.

00:09:23.500 Only 1,000 people are going to be able to join.

00:09:24.980 If you snooze, well, I don't know.

00:09:27.580 Then just don't buy it.

00:09:28.800 I don't care.

00:09:30.200 The human rights campaign and GLAAD heroically condemned Rowling's hateful anti-science tweet.

00:09:37.420 But where you might expect her to cower before the mob, as so many before her have, Rowling

00:09:42.320 actually refused.

00:09:43.620 She didn't apologize for the tweet.

00:09:45.440 In fact, she doubled down on her statement.

00:09:47.580 Nah, you have to, if we learn anything about the woke left, this is how you get out of

00:09:52.180 it. 1.00

00:09:52.420 When you fuck up, you gotta go. 1.00

00:09:53.840 Pattern of behavior where I really want, especially women on stage, to feel safer. 1.00

00:09:59.180 Like, we call fucking booba spam cringe. 0.99

00:10:02.180 We don't do that there. 0.99

00:10:02.900 I've never made like a fucking weird, I don't know, seat sniffing joke. 0.89

00:10:07.320 Yeah, this is what you gotta do. 0.98

00:10:08.220 You gotta get the tissues.

00:10:08.980 It's in June, 2020, when DVEX.com released a headline titled, Creating a More Equal Post-COVID-19

00:10:19.320 World for People Who Menstrate. 0.98

00:10:21.520 Remember, people who menstruate, it's the term they use for women these days.

00:10:24.880 Rowling was not a fan of the headline.

00:10:26.600 And really, who can blame her?

00:10:28.260 People who menstruate.

00:10:29.580 You mean a human, a human female, a woman?

00:10:32.580 We have words for this, people.

00:10:34.100 We don't have to use people who menstruate. 0.97

00:10:35.700 But shortly after she tweeted that pretending sex and gender are fluid will eventually

00:10:40.120 and inevitably lead to the erasure of women, she expressed ire with the trans community,

00:10:44.960 a community she said she had allied herself with for decades.

00:10:48.820 In the same tweet thread, she supported, quote, every trans person's right to live any way

00:10:52.820 that feels authentic and comfortable to them, but said she wasn't willing to concede the

00:10:57.540 truth fully.

00:10:58.840 She took to her website to describe the, quote, toxicity she was receiving from the LGBT community, 1.00

00:11:03.680 saying she only wished to be left alone.

00:11:07.040 But of course, that wasn't going to stop the left from showing up at Rowling's door

00:11:10.040 with pitchforks, almost quite literally.

00:11:12.860 Many began advocating that people stop reading her comments altogether.

00:11:16.320 After all, it was worth it to avoid the, quote, far-right language and pure hate that Rowling

00:11:21.540 was spreading.

00:11:22.460 The media, which had spent a decade holding up Rowling as a feminist icon, turned on her 0.99

00:11:26.680 as well.

00:11:27.040 Well, they started running headlines bashing her over the remarks, all while conveniently

00:11:33.620 leaving out the fact she made Hermione black and look what happened. 1.00

00:11:38.220 She made Dumbledore gay and look what happened. 1.00

00:11:40.380 Was it worth it, J.K. Rowling?

00:11:41.780 That she agrees with the other 99% of their views because, again, 99% isn't enough.

00:11:47.160 It's all or nothing when it comes to the cult.

00:11:48.840 What is turf?

00:11:49.780 What is that?

00:11:50.460 Colt.

00:11:50.780 The stars of the Harry Potter movies, who owed all of their wealth, fame, and prestige

00:11:55.300 to J.K. Rowling, were quick to turn on her as well.

00:11:58.400 Oh my god, they're crying too?

00:12:00.180 They disavowed her?

00:12:01.860 Bro.

00:12:02.300 Deciding to virtue signal from their ivory towers.

00:12:04.820 Wow.

00:12:05.320 Daniel Radcliffe bravely proclaimed, quote, transgender women are women.

00:12:09.240 No, they're not. 1.00

00:12:10.200 This idiot! 1.00

00:12:11.340 Oh! 1.00

00:12:13.540 No, they're not.

00:12:14.760 And apologized to the poor souls who felt their book reading experience was tarnished.

00:12:19.600 It's worth noting that Daniel Radcliffe now- 0.93

00:12:21.740 Okay, he'll say some shit like this, but he won't be able to answer the question, 0.99

00:12:24.820 what is a woman? 1.00

00:12:26.280 Trans women are women. 0.90

00:12:27.400 What is a woman? 1.00

00:12:32.840 ...who felt their book reading experience was tarnished.

00:12:36.400 It's worth noting that Daniel Radcliffe now has a reported $110 million net worth,

00:12:41.560 thanks almost entirely to the bigoted brain of J.K. Rowling.

00:12:45.240 It remains to be seen if Radcliffe will be donating any of that money to a trans organization,

00:12:49.600 because, after all, that money is tarnished.

00:12:53.100 Emma Watson, who strangely is a white woman, played what we now know to be a black woman

00:12:56.940 in the character Hermione, told her trans followers that she respects them and sees them,

00:13:01.540 before issuing a, quote, Pride 2020 hashtag.

00:13:04.940 Truly courageous sellout from Miss Watson.

00:13:07.840 Eddie Redmayne, who plays the main protagonist in the spinoff Fantastic Beasts,

00:13:12.080 wanted to make it, quote, absolutely clear where he stands.

00:13:15.520 That Rowling is wrong and trans women are women, trans men are men. 0.98

00:13:19.420 You know, you've heard it all before, you get the idea.

00:13:21.460 Warner Brothers jumped on the dogpile too.

00:13:23.560 In July of 2020, they released a statement promising that diversity and inclusion

00:13:27.760 had never been more important to them.

00:13:29.940 Never, ever, ever.

00:13:31.580 They gave the usual talking points about, quote, fostering empathy and advocating understanding.

00:13:36.640 Again, they're still happy to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the back of J.K. Rowling,

00:13:40.500 but Rowling never backed down.

00:13:42.460 She never apologized for her statements.

00:13:44.240 And she still today talks about protecting real women's rights. 0.99

00:13:47.840 Chad, type of one if you don't think that they believe in any of the shit that they're tweeting, 0.98

00:13:51.680 and they're just doing it to keep their money and to not get canceled and to get more roles 0.99

00:13:55.400 in Hollywood.

00:13:56.400 Do you actually think that Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson were like,

00:14:00.800 trans women and hashtag pride, and I really care about these trannies? 1.00

00:14:06.560 Or was it just like their manager, yo, J.K. Rowling is going to cancel.

00:14:10.840 You got to tweet this.

00:14:11.900 You got to tweet this.

00:14:12.780 Oi, but come off it. 0.96

00:14:14.580 No. 1.00

00:14:15.720 They've got penises. 1.00

00:14:17.440 You got to do it. 0.99

00:14:18.280 I'm sorry, Daniel. 0.60

00:14:19.580 You got to, I'm going to get you this white supremacist role.

00:14:21.800 If you don't do it, they're not going to believe you anymore.

00:14:25.440 Come off it.

00:14:26.380 And then Emma Watson, no, I just want to do my star sign.

00:14:30.920 No, you got to do it.

00:14:31.660 Sorry, Emma.

00:14:32.180 Okay, whatever. 0.99

00:14:33.520 They don't give a fuck. 1.00

00:14:35.220 They disobey. 1.00

00:14:36.100 Yes.

00:14:36.680 Yes.

00:14:37.240 Matrix agents.

00:14:38.200 No unique opinions.

00:14:39.960 No actual voice.

00:14:41.200 No substance.

00:14:42.280 They just get on camera and they're, you know, slightly attractive so they get roles.

00:14:46.940 And drawing the line between trans women and women.

00:14:49.980 Despite everyone in her life essentially selling her out and calling her an important person

00:14:54.360 for having ideas they didn't agree with, Rowling didn't go anywhere.

00:14:58.040 Now, most of her tweets still read like they were written by DNC operatives.

00:15:02.020 And she still routinely advocates for Democrats and against Republicans.

00:15:06.200 But it wasn't enough.

00:15:07.640 It was my life.

00:15:09.000 And it was very hard.

00:15:10.560 Total adherence is the price to pay to stave off the outrage mob.

00:15:15.000 No matter how far liberal you are or have been your entire professional career,

00:15:19.800 you've just made an enemy with the left.

00:15:21.400 Maybe Republicans won't have to do much to win over the midterms this year

00:15:24.580 because the left is eating its own right in front of us.

00:15:28.260 I'm Cabot Phillips with The Daily Wire.

00:15:30.420 A humble muggle signing off. 0.84

00:15:32.680 Okay, okay. 1.00

00:15:33.420 Why do you have to say that shit at the end? 0.99

00:15:35.760 Thanks for watching. 1.00

00:15:37.140 Yeah, I didn't like it.

00:15:38.400 With The Daily Wire.

00:15:39.900 A humble muggle. 1.00

00:15:41.060 Shut up. 1.00

00:15:42.080 Signing off. 1.00

00:15:43.120 Yeah.

00:15:44.240 Boo! 0.83

00:15:45.300 Thanks for watching.

00:15:48.080 Boo! 0.83

00:15:48.520 Boo! 0.83

00:15:49.880 Good video though.

00:15:51.400 That's it.

00:15:56.820 Is this your job?

SNEAKO - January 31, 2023

Why The Left Betrayed J.K. Rowling

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