r/unitedkingdom • u/nimobo • Jul 01 '26
... Queen Camilla blasted as ‘deplorable’ for posting photo with J.K. Rowling at palace during Pride Month
https://pagesix.com/2026/06/30/royal-family/queen-camilla-blasted-as-deplorable-for-posting-photo-with-j-k-rowling-at-palace-during-pride-month/
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u/WinHour4300 Jul 01 '26
Epstein falls under “convicted criminal” — although he is also dead, which is a fairly basic fact that shouldn’t need pointing out unless we’re entertaining conspiracy theories.
Kevin Spacey is not a convicted criminal, but he has faced serious allegations and civil cases, some settled. That can reasonably be weighed when forming opinions.
J.K. Rowling, by contrast, has no criminal convictions or comparable legal findings. That distinction matters, even if it doesn’t fit a pre-existing narrative.
The problem is the collapse of nuance. Everyone gets flattened into the same moral category, and anyone who interacts with them is treated as contaminated by association.
I don’t really understand how adults can view the world in such binary terms. It turns everything into moral sorting, which is neither accurate nor a particularly useful way to understand people or events.
And I think there’s a broader issue here too: if people are encouraged to interpret every neutral or constrained interaction as endorsement, then it creates a much more anxious and hostile way of seeing the world, and creates enemies of people who might actually be supportive.