J.K. Rowling book burning videos are spreading like wildfire across TikTok
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A new TikTok trend has emerged this week as former "Harry Potter" fans protest author J. K. Rowling's widely criticized views on trans people by burning copies of her books.
One video, posted by TikTok user @elmcdo shows a number of "Harry Potter" books being placed on a burning pyre.
"You have to stop using 'death of the author' as an excuse to have your cake and eat it too," the voiceover says. "While the reader's perspective is an important part of interpretation and meaning, it is impossible to completely divorce a work from its creator."
The voice-over continues: "The positive impact that J. K. Rowling's work had on millions of readers does not negate how her hateful lobbying has affected the trans community.
"This doesn't even touch on the harmful fatphobia, racism and valorization of supramacists and child abusers in her most famous work."
The video ends with the message: "Your love of 'Harry Potter' is not more important than the lives of trans women."
Newsweek has reached out to @elmcdo for comment on the book-burning video. Rowling's representatives declined to comment.
A number of other videos showing "Harry Potter" books being destroyed are circulating on the platform.
Over on Twitter, a discussion around burning Rowling's books is circulating also, as many former fans react to one of the controversial elements of her latest book "Troubled Blood". The fifth in her Cormoran Strike detective novel series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith features a plotline involving a male serial kil... (Read more)
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