{"id":89484,"date":"2022-03-26T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/vladimir-putin-complains-the-west-is-trying-to-cancel-russia-like-it-did-j-k-rowling\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T02:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:35:57","slug":"vladimir-putin-complains-the-west-is-trying-to-cancel-russia-like-it-did-j-k-rowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/vladimir-putin-complains-the-west-is-trying-to-cancel-russia-like-it-did-j-k-rowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin Complains the West Is ‘Trying to Cancel’ Russia Like it Did J.K. Rowling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vladimir Putin may be increasingly isolated from the world, but he\u2019s kept up with enough pop culture to evoke J.K. Rowling and her controversial views on gender while complaining that the West is trying to \u201ccancel\u201d the entirety of Russian culture. And Rowling wasn\u2019t having it. <\/p>\n

Without explicitly endorsing Rowling\u2019s views on gender, Putin raised the way the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d author (who is British, just to be sure) was treated after expressing those views.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey recently cancelled children\u2019s author J.K. Rowling,\u201d Putin said, according to a translation of the TV appearance by SkyNews<\/a>. \u201cBut her views didn\u2019t satisfy the followers of so-called gender freedoms. Today, they\u2019re trying to cancel our whole country, our people. I\u2019m talking about the progressive discrimination of everything that has to do with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rowling on Friday responded to Putin\u2019s comments, saying that she stands with Ukraine, and even shared a link about Alexei Navalny, Russia\u2019s political opposition leader to Putin who was imprisoned by the Russian government. <\/p>\n

\u201cCritiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics,\u201d she wrote in a tweet<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Putin in his remarks lamented what he called the widespread rejection of Russian art and literature in the Western world since his decision to invade Ukraine without provocation or any apparent regard for civilian life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis trend is unfolding in a number of Western states, sometimes with the encouragement of the ruling elites,\u201d he said. \u201cThis cancel culture has cancelled the culture itself. They\u2019re now removing Tchaicovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmananoff from concert posters. Russian writers and books are also being cancelled. The last time a similar program of mass destruction of literature was conducted by Nazi Germans almost 90 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rowling has met fierce backlash for her traditional view of male-and-female gender that critics say is anti-trans. She has remained steadfast in her beliefs, despite public pushback from people including prominent \u201cHarry Potter\u201d stars Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n