SNEAKO - January 31, 2023


Why The Left Betrayed J.K. Rowling

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Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy
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Harry Potter J.K. Rowling Daniel Radcliffe Emma Watson Hillary Clinton Nancy Pelosi Dumbledore Hermione Trump Creativity Kit Eddie Redmayne Miss Watsi Voldemort Wyskowski Obama Steve Colt Chad
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15 minutes

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70

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J.K. Rowling is a feminist, an anti-racist, an LGBT advocate, and a self-proclaimed "progressive" ideologue. So why did the left turn against her? And why did they hate her?

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00:00:00 Why did the left turn against J.K. Rowling?
00:00:02 The Harry Potter book series is one of the biggest franchises in the world.
00:00:05 There's a good chance you've either read the books, seen the movies, played the video games,
00:00:09 or even visited the real-life Harry Potter world.
00:00:12 In fact, at over 500 million copies sold,
00:00:15 the Harry Potter franchise is the best-selling book series in history.
00:00:19 But if there's one thing we know, in 2022, nothing is safe or sacred from the left.
00:00:24 And no one learned that harder than J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books.
00:00:30 You remember when she hit her name because she wanted people to think she was a man? 0.90
00:00:36 No one was more surprised by the franchise's popularity than the author herself.
00:00:40 Rowling's early life as an author didn't reap much success.
00:00:43 While writing the first Harry Potter book, The Sorcerer's Stone,
00:00:46 she actually lived off government welfare in a tiny apartment in London.
00:00:48 When the book was sent to publishers in 1995,
00:00:52 her work was widely rejected until one small publisher picked up the book in 1997.
00:00:57 Almost overnight, her books were a colossal success.
00:01:01 And over the years that followed, Rowling was almost as active politically as she was artistically.
00:01:06 She became well-known for her leftist views,
00:01:08 donating millions of dollars to Britain's Labour Party
00:01:10 and speaking regularly about the role government should play in expanding welfare and other liberal policies.
00:01:16 She's a self-proclaimed feminist, LGBT advocate, 0.93
00:01:18 and she routinely speaks out about systemic racism.
00:01:23 You can probably guess how she feels about Trump, too. 0.98
00:01:25 She's referred to him as a fascist, a bigot, a jo- 0.96
00:01:28 So why do they hate her? 0.93
00:01:29 What did she say?
00:01:30 What was it, some transphobia or something?
00:01:31 Orange egg.
00:01:33 And even as the main antagonist of her book series, Voldemort himself.
00:01:37 Voldemort was worse than Trump?
00:01:38 Or, I guess it's he whose name shall not be spoken.
00:01:41 Sorry about that for all the Harry Potter fans.
00:01:43 Wrong.
00:01:43 Conversely, she's praised Hillary Clinton during the election
00:01:48 as a, quote, highly intelligent, experienced woman,
00:01:52 HAT!
00:01:52 I don't like mine!
00:01:53 And spent the entirety of Trump's presidency decrying his every move,
00:01:57 wishing for a, quote, Clinton or Obama in the White House.
00:02:00 Her political views certainly carried over to her books as well.
00:02:03 Rowling has been infamous for retroactively changing certain parts of the series,
00:02:07 months or even years after the Harry Potter books were published.
00:02:10 Apparently, Dumbledore was actually gay the entire time.
00:02:14 I don't know how any of us could have missed that.
00:02:18 And Hermione? 0.91
00:02:19 She was actually black, despite virtually no reference to her skin color or race in any of the books.
00:02:25 And thankfully, according to Rowling, you won't have to worry about tuition fees at Hogwarts
00:02:29 because the Ministry of Magic is happy to pay off your student loans for you.
00:02:35 She's saying all the right talking points in order to get Twitter on her side. 0.98
00:02:39 That's right, it sounds like Rowling's reworked Wizarding World was actually quite the progressive paradise.
00:02:43 So why then, if she's such a diehard leftist, would the left try and cancel her? 0.99
00:02:48 For the influential author of children's literature to be so vehemently anti-trans
00:02:53 and to so publicly shame, ridicule, and invalidate trans people is lethal.
00:03:03 And I can't talk about it without getting mad.
00:03:05 Wouldn't they want someone with so much influence on their side?
00:03:08 Yes.
00:03:09 But remember, to be on the left is essentially to be in a cult.
00:03:12 You can't go in halfway.
00:03:14 It's all or nothing.
00:03:16 This is actually a cult.
00:03:18 Left is essentially to be in a cult.
00:03:19 Is that Nancy Pelosi?
00:03:20 You can't go in halfway.
00:03:21 It's all or nothing.
00:03:22 Why are they wearing the, my brother?
00:03:28 Don't use the N-word because we are the African Kings.
00:03:31 It's just like a BLM scarf.
00:03:33 What's the point of her with the mask on if she's not wearing it?
00:03:36 Why is this?
00:03:37 What is going on in this picture?
00:03:39 What in the left?
00:03:40 What in the woke am I looking at?
00:03:43 Any...
00:03:43 You know, people are still wearing this.
00:03:47 I was coming back from the airport.
00:03:48 Just now.
00:03:49 Just getting food right now.
00:03:51 When I was buying my eggs and protein shakes at the grocery store.
00:03:55 Still wearing masks.
00:03:57 Still.
00:03:58 It's not over.
00:03:59 You know that to enter the United States from a foreign country? 0.94
00:04:03 L-Stream.
00:04:03 You're one of the...
00:04:04 We're one of the five countries in the United States.
00:04:06 To force foreigners to be vaccinated just to enter this country?
00:04:09 Anything they decide goes, your agency as an individual is totally stripped.
00:04:16 And when it comes to the left, full commitment to the cult means agreeing with every leftist 0.97
00:04:20 talking point imaginable, no matter how insane or ridiculous you think they might be.
00:04:25 If you don't fully commit, if you're even missing 1% of the leftist ideology in the
00:04:28 playbook, then not only are you not with the left... 1.00
00:04:31 But you're literally a fascist, racist, homophobic bigot. 0.99
00:04:34 But in their view, you're actively against them. 1.00
00:04:37 Silence is violence.
00:04:39 You have to be actively anti-racist.
00:04:42 You can't just be...
00:04:43 You have to actively burn racism down.
00:04:46 And J.K. Rowling made the mistake of only committing halfway to the cult.
00:04:50 In December of 2019, she took to Twitter to support a researcher who had been recently
00:04:55 fired for, quote, transphobic comments.
00:04:58 Well, that's the word the media is using.
00:04:59 In reality, the researcher had opposed legislation that would allow people...
00:05:03 Could someone change the word of transphobia?
00:05:05 Nobody's afraid of trans people.
00:05:06 It's just...
00:05:08 You understand that men can't become women and women can't... 1.00
00:05:11 It's not...
00:05:11 Nobody's phobic.
00:05:13 Ah!
00:05:13 Trans people!
00:05:14 Who...
00:05:15 Who's actually transphobic?
00:05:17 Does anyone have a phobia of trans?
00:05:20 Someone's gonna try to be like, yeah.
00:05:22 Yeah, me.
00:05:22 But...
00:05:22 It's just...
00:05:25 No, you can't...
00:05:26 Did you see that video today of like this male sprinter who became a woman and she's 1.00
00:05:34 just fucking, I'm a woman! 1.00
00:05:36 I'm a woman! 1.00
00:05:37 Smoking all the women? 1.00
00:05:39 Or did you see that guy in the UK who just murdered a bunch of people?
00:05:43 I think he stabbed like three people and he gets convicted.
00:05:45 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 prison because he identifies as a woman without doing any...
00:05:54 It's not phobia.
00:05:57 It's just... 1.00
00:05:57 This is clown shit. 1.00
00:05:59 It's just clown shit. 1.00
00:06:00 So I can say, I'm scared they finna be my ass. 1.00
00:06:02 Bro, you need to get in the gym. 1.00
00:06:03 If you're afraid of a tranny... 0.98
00:06:05 If you can't fight off a tranny, man, you need to get in the gym, bro. 1.00
00:06:07 People to choose their gender legally without actually undergoing a medical procedure. 1.00
00:06:11 Wyskowski says, bro, that man chick got the fattest ass I've ever seen. 1.00
00:06:15 Is that supposed to be a chick? 1.00
00:06:16 LMAO.
00:06:16 I don't know, man.
00:06:17 Just let...
00:06:18 You just...
00:06:19 It's not even...
00:06:19 I don't think of it as a man and a woman. 0.91
00:06:20 I just see clown world.
00:06:22 I went to school with one trans and it was being sad all day, being alone sad all day. 0.90
00:06:28 Bro, I went to school with the trans.
00:06:30 I went to a boarding school in high school and the trans person, they built its own dorm room.
00:06:35 I want to say it's because I was in the male dorms.
00:06:37 I think it was a female that became a man. 0.78
00:06:39 And he wanted...
00:06:42 She, whatever, wanted to live in the male dorms. 0.89
00:06:44 And so they built a room that had it...
00:06:46 So we all had to go...
00:06:47 Like everybody on the floor, we all had to share the same bathroom.
00:06:50 Toilets covered in piss all the time. 0.99
00:06:52 Someone's always taking a shit. 0.99
00:06:53 People would have like coffee and shaving shit all over the sink. 1.00
00:06:56 And this one tranny, they got their own bathroom. 1.00
00:07:00 Why? 0.94
00:07:01 Commit.
00:07:02 Like if you're going to come into the male dorms, be... 0.96
00:07:04 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 And if you're supposed to be your own...
00:07:10 If you're supposed to become a man, why are you still getting privileges of your own...
00:07:15 Like nobody...
00:07:16 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 You have to be like a proctor, an RA, for example.
00:07:25 You have to be in charge. 1.00
00:07:27 This tranny got all these privileges for cutting a dick off. 1.00
00:07:31 You cut your dick off and here's a bathroom. 1.00
00:07:34 Yay! 1.00
00:07:34 The tranny was always celebrated, always got all these privileges. 0.99
00:07:39 It's like, are you trying to assimilate?
00:07:40 Are you trying to become a man or not?
00:07:42 Why are you getting all these extra hula hoops?
00:07:44 BTR got reported for taking the elevator and the trans was rushing to take a picture of me.
00:07:50 I don't even know what you're talking about, but...
00:07:53 Yeah.
00:07:55 Rowling expressed disdain over the firing while trying her best to appeal to the left in the process.
00:07:59 But ultimately, as most arguments with mobs are, it was futile.
00:08:03 The second she showed even an ounce of disapproval to the left, especially to the sacred transgender community,
00:08:09 she became a target for them, as opposed to an advocate.
00:08:12 After all that grifting for Hillary Clinton, after all that Nancy Pelosi and Trump hating,
00:08:19 it doesn't work, man.
00:08:20 The woke, woke is a cult.
00:08:22 Woke is a cult.
00:08:23 And you could argue that the all, like the right, I guess the red pill is a cult too.
00:08:27 But what's a better cult?
00:08:28 People who are, we're chugging eggs, we're in the gym every day, we're making money online,
00:08:34 we're starting our own businesses, we're motivating each other. 0.99
00:08:36 Or would you rather be in a cult of blue-haired dick cutters? 0.98
00:08:40 Would you rather be in a cult of cancel culture and bringing people down and making hit pieces? 0.99
00:08:45 What do you think is a better one?
00:08:47 Thank you for the five.
00:08:48 Hey, Steve, this is my first donor.
00:08:49 I'm a full-time college student.
00:08:50 I work a part-time job.
00:08:51 Can I still join Creativity Kit?
00:08:52 Is it a big-time commitment?
00:08:53 I'm worried if I can get much out of it.
00:08:55 Bro, you stop.
00:08:57 Everyone is in here.
00:08:58 It's $50 a month.
00:08:59 I'm teaching you.
00:09:00 I have different professors every single day of the week.
00:09:02 I have calls every single day.
00:09:04 It's a good community.
00:09:05 Like, stop coming in here.
00:09:07 Well, can you talk to me specifically if I should buy it?
00:09:10 Check out the website.
00:09:11 If you don't like it, you don't need to buy it.
00:09:13 It's only 1,000 people could join tomorrow. 1.00
00:09:14 And just fuck off now. 1.00
00:09:16 Like, I don't know. 1.00
00:09:17 Well, this is what you should do as a college student. 1.00
00:09:20 Fuck off, bro. 1.00
00:09:20 Look at the website. 1.00
00:09:21 If you think it's worth it, fine.
00:09:23 Only 1,000 people are going to be able to join.
00:09:24 If you snooze, well, I don't know.
00:09:27 Then just don't buy it.
00:09:28 I don't care.
00:09:30 The human rights campaign and GLAAD heroically condemned Rowling's hateful anti-science tweet.
00:09:37 But where you might expect her to cower before the mob, as so many before her have, Rowling
00:09:42 actually refused.
00:09:43 She didn't apologize for the tweet.
00:09:45 In fact, she doubled down on her statement.
00:09:47 Nah, you have to, if we learn anything about the woke left, this is how you get out of
00:09:52 it. 1.00
00:09:52 When you fuck up, you gotta go. 1.00
00:09:53 Pattern of behavior where I really want, especially women on stage, to feel safer. 1.00
00:09:59 Like, we call fucking booba spam cringe. 0.99
00:10:02 We don't do that there. 0.99
00:10:02 I've never made like a fucking weird, I don't know, seat sniffing joke. 0.89
00:10:07 Yeah, this is what you gotta do. 0.98
00:10:08 You gotta get the tissues.
00:10:08 It's in June, 2020, when DVEX.com released a headline titled, Creating a More Equal Post-COVID-19
00:10:19 World for People Who Menstrate. 0.98
00:10:21 Remember, people who menstruate, it's the term they use for women these days.
00:10:24 Rowling was not a fan of the headline.
00:10:26 And really, who can blame her?
00:10:28 People who menstruate.
00:10:29 You mean a human, a human female, a woman?
00:10:32 We have words for this, people.
00:10:34 We don't have to use people who menstruate. 0.97
00:10:35 But shortly after she tweeted that pretending sex and gender are fluid will eventually
00:10:40 and inevitably lead to the erasure of women, she expressed ire with the trans community,
00:10:44 a community she said she had allied herself with for decades.
00:10:48 In the same tweet thread, she supported, quote, every trans person's right to live any way
00:10:52 that feels authentic and comfortable to them, but said she wasn't willing to concede the
00:10:57 truth fully.
00:10:58 She took to her website to describe the, quote, toxicity she was receiving from the LGBT community, 1.00
00:11:03 saying she only wished to be left alone.
00:11:07 But of course, that wasn't going to stop the left from showing up at Rowling's door
00:11:10 with pitchforks, almost quite literally.
00:11:12 Many began advocating that people stop reading her comments altogether.
00:11:16 After all, it was worth it to avoid the, quote, far-right language and pure hate that Rowling
00:11:21 was spreading.
00:11:22 The media, which had spent a decade holding up Rowling as a feminist icon, turned on her 0.99
00:11:26 as well.
00:11:27 Well, they started running headlines bashing her over the remarks, all while conveniently
00:11:33 leaving out the fact she made Hermione black and look what happened. 1.00
00:11:38 She made Dumbledore gay and look what happened. 1.00
00:11:40 Was it worth it, J.K. Rowling?
00:11:41 That she agrees with the other 99% of their views because, again, 99% isn't enough.
00:11:47 It's all or nothing when it comes to the cult.
00:11:48 What is turf?
00:11:49 What is that?
00:11:50 Colt.
00:11:50 The stars of the Harry Potter movies, who owed all of their wealth, fame, and prestige
00:11:55 to J.K. Rowling, were quick to turn on her as well.
00:11:58 Oh my god, they're crying too?
00:12:00 They disavowed her?
00:12:01 Bro.
00:12:02 Deciding to virtue signal from their ivory towers.
00:12:04 Wow.
00:12:05 Daniel Radcliffe bravely proclaimed, quote, transgender women are women.
00:12:09 No, they're not. 1.00
00:12:10 This idiot! 1.00
00:12:11 Oh! 1.00
00:12:13 No, they're not.
00:12:14 And apologized to the poor souls who felt their book reading experience was tarnished.
00:12:19 It's worth noting that Daniel Radcliffe now- 0.93
00:12:21 Okay, he'll say some shit like this, but he won't be able to answer the question, 0.99
00:12:24 what is a woman? 1.00
00:12:26 Trans women are women. 0.90
00:12:27 What is a woman? 1.00
00:12:32 ...who felt their book reading experience was tarnished.
00:12:36 It's worth noting that Daniel Radcliffe now has a reported $110 million net worth,
00:12:41 thanks almost entirely to the bigoted brain of J.K. Rowling.
00:12:45 It remains to be seen if Radcliffe will be donating any of that money to a trans organization,
00:12:49 because, after all, that money is tarnished.
00:12:53 Emma Watson, who strangely is a white woman, played what we now know to be a black woman
00:12:56 in the character Hermione, told her trans followers that she respects them and sees them,
00:13:01 before issuing a, quote, Pride 2020 hashtag.
00:13:04 Truly courageous sellout from Miss Watson.
00:13:07 Eddie Redmayne, who plays the main protagonist in the spinoff Fantastic Beasts,
00:13:12 wanted to make it, quote, absolutely clear where he stands.
00:13:15 That Rowling is wrong and trans women are women, trans men are men. 0.98
00:13:19 You know, you've heard it all before, you get the idea.
00:13:21 Warner Brothers jumped on the dogpile too.
00:13:23 In July of 2020, they released a statement promising that diversity and inclusion
00:13:27 had never been more important to them.
00:13:29 Never, ever, ever.
00:13:31 They gave the usual talking points about, quote, fostering empathy and advocating understanding.
00:13:36 Again, they're still happy to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the back of J.K. Rowling,
00:13:40 but Rowling never backed down.
00:13:42 She never apologized for her statements.
00:13:44 And she still today talks about protecting real women's rights. 0.99
00:13:47 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 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 in Hollywood.
00:13:56 Do you actually think that Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson were like,
00:14:00 trans women and hashtag pride, and I really care about these trannies? 1.00
00:14:06 Or was it just like their manager, yo, J.K. Rowling is going to cancel.
00:14:10 You got to tweet this.
00:14:11 You got to tweet this.
00:14:12 Oi, but come off it. 0.96
00:14:14 No. 1.00
00:14:15 They've got penises. 1.00
00:14:17 You got to do it. 0.99
00:14:18 I'm sorry, Daniel. 0.60
00:14:19 You got to, I'm going to get you this white supremacist role.
00:14:21 If you don't do it, they're not going to believe you anymore.
00:14:25 Come off it.
00:14:26 And then Emma Watson, no, I just want to do my star sign.
00:14:30 No, you got to do it.
00:14:31 Sorry, Emma.
00:14:32 Okay, whatever. 0.99
00:14:33 They don't give a fuck. 1.00
00:14:35 They disobey. 1.00
00:14:36 Yes.
00:14:36 Yes.
00:14:37 Matrix agents.
00:14:38 No unique opinions.
00:14:39 No actual voice.
00:14:41 No substance.
00:14:42 They just get on camera and they're, you know, slightly attractive so they get roles.
00:14:46 And drawing the line between trans women and women.
00:14:49 Despite everyone in her life essentially selling her out and calling her an important person
00:14:54 for having ideas they didn't agree with, Rowling didn't go anywhere.
00:14:58 Now, most of her tweets still read like they were written by DNC operatives.
00:15:02 And she still routinely advocates for Democrats and against Republicans.
00:15:06 But it wasn't enough.
00:15:07 It was my life.
00:15:09 And it was very hard.
00:15:10 Total adherence is the price to pay to stave off the outrage mob.
00:15:15 No matter how far liberal you are or have been your entire professional career,
00:15:19 you've just made an enemy with the left.
00:15:21 Maybe Republicans won't have to do much to win over the midterms this year
00:15:24 because the left is eating its own right in front of us.
00:15:28 I'm Cabot Phillips with The Daily Wire.
00:15:30 A humble muggle signing off. 0.84
00:15:32 Okay, okay. 1.00
00:15:33 Why do you have to say that shit at the end? 0.99
00:15:35 Thanks for watching. 1.00
00:15:37 Yeah, I didn't like it.
00:15:38 With The Daily Wire.
00:15:39 A humble muggle. 1.00
00:15:41 Shut up. 1.00
00:15:42 Signing off. 1.00
00:15:43 Yeah.
00:15:44 Boo! 0.83
00:15:45 Thanks for watching.
00:15:48 Boo! 0.83
00:15:48 Boo! 0.83
00:15:49 Good video though.
00:15:51 That's it.
00:15:56 Is this your job?