Rosetta was ready to bring the axe down on Rowling’s neck with an article titled “20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With.” The article, as you can guess, was meant to explore the horrific transphobia of the Potterworld author, further damning her to a life of social exclusion and cancelation.

Only something went wrong. Rosetta did something that the left hasn’t seen in a long, long time…journalism. As she posted in a Twitter thread that’s worth reading in its entirety, the HuffPo writer began with the goal of vengeance and by the end of her research she easily concluded that everyone is “burning the wrong witch.”

“Right, I’m done,” she began. “3 months ago, I was tasked with writing an article detailing “20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With” After 12 weeks of reading her books, tweets, full essay & finding the context of these “quotes”, I’ve not found a single truly transphobic message.”

Rosetta explained that she soon discovered that Rowling was not an “intolerable transphobe” but a woman who could have enjoyed fame and love but instead decided to be a warrior for women’s rights in the face of guaranteed hatred from a very large transgender movement. She said that while everyone was trying to go along to get along, Rowling was one of the few people paying attention.

“JK saw the loopholes being created & knew that women needed a voice,” Rosetta continued. “So instead of sitting back & wishing everyone well, said “It’s got to be me, hasn’t it?”. She did something terrifying & amazing & used her voice, I suspect knowing damn well what was to come. That’s bravery.”

Rosetta said that after three months of dedicated research, she found nothing transphobic from Rowling and that the abuse she endured — including death and rape threats — was as unforgivable as it was unwarranted.

“Shame on those who have framed her under the guise of “reporting” when you must know, deep down, you are just chucking out clickbait & stirring up hate. Shame on those who followed that propaganda without critical thought.

Shame on those who have framed her under the guise of “reporting” when you must know, deep down, you are just chucking out clickbait & stirring up hate,” she wrote. “Shame on those who followed that propaganda without critical thought. You’re burning the wrong witch. I stand with [Rowling].”

You can read the thread by clicking the tweet below.

The summary is good enough, but he should have included her final tweet in that thread:
https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595071714790150146
“Already ignoring frantic phone calls from my agent demanding I take it down.
NO”

https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2022/11/22/youre-burning-the-wrong-witch-writer-ej-rosetta-defends-jk-rowling/

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/23/colorado-club-shooting-suspect-non-binary-attorneys-say

whose killed 100,000 americans through negligence, not putin, but the apparat that allows the poison to flow into this country, who put a turniquet on every new wellhead in the permian basin, the chukchi inlet, the gulf of mexico, who let the 20 years we had fought in afghanistan, turn into a macabre joke,

https://tinyurl.com/2wr82vsr

the real fruits of discount jack black, samuel bank freed,

To each his own, but the news channels keep running scare stories about RSV and how Covid is still lurking out there. The local news channels, even the Fox affiliate, parrot the stuff they get from the Guv’s people. Governor Inslee is very much in the mold of Newsome and Whitmer. I expect we will have another round of masking and so forth before the winter’s over.

Here in Florida, I think the percentage is down to about 1% or less masking in the general public. Going into Publix I now see maybe 1 person at most. I had a doctor appt last week and no one was wearing masks now in the practice. Two months ago all the staff was, but patients weren’t required. Really nice to actually see my doctor’s face and have a conversation with her.

I rode Amtrak yesterday. Lincoln Service, through the heart and heartland of the U.S. A fair amount of passengers were wearing masks and the majority of folks at the station were. I have to imagine it’s worse on the nation’s coasts.

When this started, in 2020, my guess was much of America would now take after Japan and other Asian countries, where many people wear face masks in public during the winter months.