JK Rowling responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that he linked her cancellation over anti-transgender comments to Russia’s sanctions.
The author of the Harry Potter series took to Twitter to tell Putin that his analysis was unwelcome.
“Criticisms of Western demolition culture may not be best voiced by those who currently slaughter civilians for the crime of resistance, or imprison and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine,” Rowling tweeted on Friday.
She added an article about the jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny.
Putin made his Rowling comments during a televised meeting on Friday. He compared the cancellation of Russian cultural events with the actions of Nazi Germany.
“Today they are trying to abolish a whole thousand-year-old country, our people,” Putin said. “I am speaking of the progressive discrimination against all things Russia, a trend unfolding in a number of Western states and with the full connivance and sometimes encouragement of the ruling elites. The notorious abandon culture has become an abandon culture.”
He then compared the treatment of Russian cultural figures to Rowling’s ostracism for their perceived anti-transgender views.
“Not long ago they hired a children’s book author, Joanne Rowling, because she, the author of books that have been distributed around the world in the hundreds of millions of copies, could not please the supporters of so-called gender freedoms,” Putin said.
Criticisms of Western demolition culture may not be best voiced by those who currently slaughter civilians for the crime of resistance, or imprison and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine https://t.co/aNItgc5aiW
— JK Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2022