Vladimir Putin Compares Himself To JK Rowling, Writer Responds – HuffPost

Sky News captureVladimir Putin compares himself to JK Rowling, writer responds (capture March 25, 2022)JK Rowling, who recently saw an English school that bore his name renamed because of his “views on trans people” , had already shown his support for the Ukrainians before this intervention by the Russian president. The Briton, famous for her Harry Potter saga, has notably appealed for donations to help children trapped in orphanages in Ukraine, promising to match those donations up to £1million. Anti-LGBTQ policy Her name is out from the mouth of the Russian President earlier in the day when he compared the deprogramming in Western countries of Russian cultural figures and events to Nazi-orchestrated book burnings. “JK Rowling was recently ‘cancelled’ because ‘She doesn’t please fans of gender freedom,’ said Putin, whose own policy criminalizes LGBTQ people. “It’s impossible to imagine such a thing in our country”President Vladimir Putin uses JK Rowling as an example of Western cynicism and “cancel culture”, which he says is currently being aimed at Russia.Latest on Ukraine: https://t. co/XTFXr6HmAe? Sky 501 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/TyH9lddC5k— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 25, 2022“Today they are trying to ‘cancel’ a whole 1000 year old country, our people. I am talking about the growing discrimination against everything related to Russia, this trend in many Western countries”, continued Putin who estimated that “the last time, it was the Nazis in Germany, there are almost 90 years, who have waged such a campaign of destruction of an unwanted culture. We well remember the images of books burned in public squares”. See also on The HuffPost: In the middle of a concert, Hans Zimmer broadcasts the video of a Ukrainian pianist playing under the sirens