One more observation about @KerryKennedyRFK 's statement: The litany of things she says JKR has done wrong starts on 6 June 2020 with the Wumben? tweet.

But JKR first tweeted about this issue on 19 Dec 2019.

(She received the RFK award on the 12th)

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033 https://twitter.com/rthonbwooster/status/1299285058143035392
You can bet that the RFK people noticed in December.

I don't know, but I'm assuming they would have talked to her.

She may have talked about the issues and the fact that she was writing something... and they stood by her.
And when she published her essay on 10 June 2020, they didn't immediately condemn her. ... they stood by her.

I assume because they could see it was a nuanced and compassionate essay
They didn't betray her until 3 August 2020.

Presumably because they had come under some pressure they could no longer withstand.

It certainly wasn't because of some breakthrough in their analysis.

Or because they wanted anyone to hear what they had to say on it.
If JK Rowling had said something so heinous that the human rights community had to condemn her, they would have noticed it straight away.

They didn't. And if they had her integrity and her strength they would have stuck with that position.
They have taken down the video of her award acceptance speech https://twitter.com/RFKHumanRights/status/1207359541551124480

And taken 2019 out altogether

https://rfkhumanrights.org/awards/ripple-of-hope-award

A human rights organisation airbrushes last year's history.
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