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And yet, at no point did she say or even infer "only white people can be women" nor bring race into the issue. The OP disagreeing with Rowling on transgender issues is absolutely fine, but to smear her by innuendo to associate her with also being racist is going too far.
It is also an example of the straw-man nonsense deployed by right wing extremists all the time; it's disturbing to see the same tactics being deployed by the left or centre on twitter and then more disturbing to see it being upvoted and even justified here.
Seeing someone deny the womanhood of two women who aren’t white and calling that racist only seems like a smear if you aren’t familiar with the long history of associating femininity with whiteness, and more specifically associating black women with masculinity. Black girls and women are consistently viewed as more masculine and less innocent than white girls and women.
Waiting for JKR to say “I’m doing a racism” before calling things she’s said racist essentially means never calling her racist.
There is a history of racists denying non-white women their womanhood. See Michelle Obama.
I hate that the tankies have stolen the phrase "blue MAGA", because I came up with it to describe them and I thought It was pretty eloquent. They have very similar thought processes, just support different things.
That's probably why they started using it, actually, to rob it if its descriptive power.
You mean imply, not infer. If you're going to use big words you don't understand to try and sound smart, look them up in the dictionary first.