J.K. Rowling Hits Back At Putin Over ‘Slaughtering Civilians’

On Friday, Russian president Vladimir Putin compared J.K. Rowling to Russia.

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He said that they were both victims of “cancel culture.”

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J.K. Rowling has come under fire for her controversial position on transgender issues.

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Putin claimed without evidence that they are “banning Russian writers and books.”

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“The proverbial ‘cancel culture’ has become a cancelation of culture,” he alleged.

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J.K. Rowling responded with her own tweet a few hours later.

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“Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians,” she wrote.

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She again retweeted her support for Ukraine.

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She also shared more information about her children’s charity, Lumos, in Ukraine.

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