
Chapter 5: The Tweets
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
I Kill Turfs, This Baseball Bat Will Be Used to Smashed
JK Rowling, author of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II," has come under fire for her tweets. She wrote that she was concerned about predators getting at women and girls. Her comments were met with a torrent of criticism from people who called her transphobic. On June 10, 2020, four days after her initial tweets, JK published an essay on her website expanding on her views.
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