“Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance,” the author tweeted.
Author J.K. Rowling blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, after he defended her in a speech condemning “cancel culture” on Thursday. “Critiques 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. #IStandWithUkraine,” Rowling tweeted Friday. The Harry Potter author also posted a link of a BBC story about Alexei Navalny, one of Putin’s most vocal critics. Navalny has accused the Kremlin of poisoning him, and was recently sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted of fraud in a trial he condemned as politically motivated. Rowling’s comments came after Putin gave a speech in which he denounced cancel culture, and argued that the West is trying to cancel the work of Russian artists including Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninov.
