JK Rowling has warned towards “black-and-white thinking”, urging individuals to “think again, look more deeply” in a podcast which is ready to deal with the backlash over her feedback concerning the transgender group.
The Harry Potter creator, 57, seems in a brand new collection, The Witch Trials Of JK Rowling, and the primary two episodes had been launched on Tuesday.
Rowling has been criticised for her staunch views on gender identification, explaining that she was partly motivated to talk out due to her expertise of home abuse and sexual assault, however has strongly denied accusations of transphobia.
In the second episode, creator and activist Megan Phelps-Roper who hosts the podcast, examined the impression of the Harry Potter books, which had been criticised by some Christian teams within the US .
She defined there was a “clear presence” of fine and evil within the franchise earlier than asking Rowling: “How do you discern when a behaviour falls on one side of that line or the other?”
Rowling stated: “That is such a deep question and it goes to the heart of Potter and it goes to the heart of much of my world view.
“There’s a huge appeal, and I try to show this in the Potter books, to black-and-white thinking.
“It’s the easiest place to be and in many ways, it’s the safest place to be. If you take an all-or-nothing position on anything, you will definitely find comrades, you will easily find a community – ‘I’ve sworn allegiance to this one simple idea’.
“What I tried to show in the the Potter books and what I feel very strongly myself, we should mistrust ourselves the most when we are certain. And we should question ourselves most when we receive a rush of adrenaline by doing or saying something.
“Many people mistake that rush of adrenaline for the voice of conscience. In my world view, conscience speaks in a very small and inconvenient voice, and it’s normally saying to you ‘Think again, look more deeply, consider this’.”
The podcast episode titled Chapter One: Plotted In Darkness opened with Rowling discussing the backlash she obtained after sharing her views on gender identification
“I never set out to upset anyone. However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal,” she stated.
“And what has interested me in the last 10 years and certainly in the last few years, particularly on social media ‘You’ve ruined your legacy, oh you could have been beloved forever but you chose to say this’ and I think you could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.
“I do not walk around my house thinking about my legacy. What a pompous way to live your life walking around thinking about what my legacy will be. Whatever. I’ll be dead. I care about now. I care about the living.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
