Husband just said: "what if Hitler was a successful painter and still had his political career? It would be so weird to go to an exhibit of his paintings and talk about separating the art from the artist."
We were talking about J.K. Rowling.
Reblogging because I'm sure they'll block me:
If you're comparing a feminist fighting to keep women and girls safe from male violence who spends millions supporting and running charities that lift up the world's most vulnerable people (living in poverty, women of colour, etc) to a man who engineered the murder of over 6 million people you're beyond stupid, you're actually mentally ill.
Let's review and compare
Hitler;
Incited violence by having his supporters go into minority communities and opposition communities with the explicit purpose of starting fights
Blamed a small ethno-religious minority (the Jewish people) for all of Gremany's and Europe's people's, including financial issues and illnesses
Got to power and started working on oppressing the Jewish people. Making them wear The Star of David to identify themselves in public, seizing their assets, having them fired from jobs, and segregating them into gulags with minimal food and medicine so they could die of disease.
Encouraged his followers to join the Nazi party or become informers, so they could more easily control Jewish people.
Set up camps with the express purpose of killing and experimenting on Jewish people.
Started sending Jewish people to these camps, many didn't even make it to the camps, they were killed on the way there, either by soldiers or sickness/stress/injury
Immediately executed anybody not able to work upon entering the camps. This included children, the elderly, the disabled, and then otherwise frail. The gas chambers were so horrific that there are preserved scratch marks on the inside of them where dying people tried to get out.
Worked Jewish people in extreme conditions, without food or water, and if they stopped being able to work, they were executed.
Took Jewish people for experimentation/torture. People were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia, pregnant women had their babies cut out of them, people had limbs removed, and so much worse.
He did this with all countries the Nazi party invaded. In total, 6 million Jewish people died and the global number of Jewish people has still not recovered, even as we get close to the 100 year mark since he came to power. Families were destroyed by his cruelty, the few that did survive were often left with no family.
JKR
Wrote a popular children's book series that made her billions
Donated so much money to charities for children, women, literacy, and the disabled (among other things) that she lost her billionaire status.
Founded a charity called Lumos that supports children in institutionalized care, such as orphanages.
Recognizes that there are two distinct sexes in humans and that males and females are different.
Acknowledges people's right to live how they want to, just not at the expense of others. Dress however you want, sleep with whoever will have you, but a man in a dress is still a man.
Founded a female only rape crisis center after so many women complained about feeling unsafe going to the other crisis center, because there were so many males involved.
Supports women's rights through financial supports. This includes supports for legal fights for women's only spaces, keeping male offenders out of women's spaces, and protecting little girls from males in their spaces.
Just to be clear, one killed several MILLION people and was the leading man behind the largest and most well known genocide on Earth. Again, the global Jewish population has STILL not recovered from the Holocaust.
The other is a feminist book author who supports your right to live how you want as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others and who has killed 0 (zero) people.
