Seattle museum removes J.K. Rowling items from exhibit on the fantasy genre and "Harry Potter", cites "racial stereotypes, fat shaming, lack of LGBTQIA+ representation, and bigotry" in the books

There’s a certain cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity in the world of Harry Potter and, this time, it is not actually a Dementor. Yes, we’re talking about J.K. Rowling, and no, we don’t like that we’re giving her more publicity, so that’s the last you’ll see of her name in this post. We’ll just stic...

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Trying to ignore the most successful modern fantasy series, and the most successful by far by a female author, is a very political choice for a museum to make.

They can like it or not but Harry Potter absolutely made history.

I wonder if they would remove HP Lovecraft’s books because he was a racist which absolutely shows in his novels.
I'm fine with this. J.K is a hateful cunt.
- Im not sure. No objection to your JK thing, but you don't need to represent lgbt in everything. The books were written at a time where there wasn't a big movement and active representation, and there is nothing wrong with that.
  
  I don't recall the fat shaming, but disagree with the bigotry and the racial stereotypes I see are "rich white man is a prick".