“I believe the time is coming when those organizations and individuals who have uncritically embraced fashionable dogma, and demonized those urging caution, will have to answer for the harm they’ve enabled.”

The statement ends with Rowling announcing she will return the Ripple of Hope Award that was given to her for her international non-profit NGO Lumos which was founded to move children worldwide out of orphanages and institutions and into loving family care by 2050.

J.K. Rowling denounces cancel culture mentality

On July 7, Rowling along with writer Margaret Atwood and 150 other writers, academics, and activists signed an open letter published by Harper’s critical of the cancel culture and “restriction of debate” in today’s world.

The letter was titled “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate,”  and claimed that this creeping cancel culture will harm the most “vital causes of our time” by silencing “good-faith” disagreement.

The letter claims that “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted.”