She is being persecuted, in other words, for the same reason a black woman might have been in the South for drinking from a “Whites Only” drinking fountain in, say, 1920.
But as bad as segregation was, by and large death was not pronounced, and certainly not pronounced publicly by civic leaders. At their worst, they would don hoods and do their dirty work in the dead of night.
I read today Theresa May, in perhaps the most blatant signalizing of what a weak, cowardly nation the UK has become, refused to grant this woman refuge out of a fear of Islamic disapproval. Put another way, the bullies won. The bullies always win, if you allow them to dictate the rules of the game by being a coward.
The political Left will in one moment scream about past racism, about poll taxes and Jim Crow, and in the next grant such policies full approval, when practiced by the same sorts of people, and for the same reasons, if they do not speak English.
Put another way, they believe NOTHING. It is an intellectually empty creed, with nothing to excuse its abuses of logic and common decency. Conservatives fail sometimes. This can be said because 1) we believe something; and 2) we can compare what we believe with what we do.
The same cannot be said of the Left. They cannot fail, because they never submit to the rule of intellectual coherence. They merely shout one thing one day, and something else the next. It is the perfect morality for people with fundamentally unstable personalities.
Orwell, in describing the sort of dystopian society that many public intellectuals were trying to bring about then, and continue to try and bring about now, was describing a society which bred Borderline Personality Disordered people. Such people crave both strong emotions, and social conformity. They are bred for authoritarian rule.
And such rule suits people “with” Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Anti-Social Personality Disorder. And when the society is thoroughly fucked up, these sorts will be everywhere. Love is a fiction to them, which they nonetheless love to invoke, since it retains some value as a tool to cover up their crimes.
I saw the latest Harry Potter, the “Crimes of Grindelwald”, and thought it appropriate that Johnny Depp told his companions that they were never to talk of murder, punishment or retribution, but only of justice and truth and liberty. Something like that. It is the leftist creed.
And on that score, I think it safe to assume Joanne Rowling has some degree of Developmental Trauma Disorder. She understands it well. She understands the authoritarian personality well. But she fails, even now, to draw the logical line between her understanding of human psychology, and the necessity of political conservatism, or at least Libertarianism of some sort.