Harry Potter author during a speech about cancel culture.During a televised meeting with cultural figures, Putin claimed there was a campaign against Russian culture in response to the world’s reaction after he ordered the country’s military to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.“Today they are trying to cancel a whole thousand-year culture – our people”, Putin said. “They are banning Russian writers and books.”Putin was reported as saying: “They cancelled Joanne Rowling recently, the children’s author.
Her books are published all over the world. Just because she did not satisfy the demands of gender rights,” he said, in reference to the backlash Rowling has received for her views on transgender issues.He went on: “They are trying to cancel our country.
I am talking about the progressive discrimination of everything to do with Russia – this trend that is unfolding in a number of Western states.”Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine https://t.co/aNItgc5aiW— J.K.
Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2022Rowling later responded by saying “critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians”.Rowling referenced an article about anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny who was jailed in Russia and hit out at Russia for allegedly “jailing and poisoning critics”.In a later tweet, Rowling detailed the work her Lumos charity is doing in the country.“Children trapped in orphanages and other institutions are exceptionally vulnerable right now.
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