British Newspaper Cancels 'Person Of The Yeaq’ Poll After J.K. Rowling Runs Away With Top Spot

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Readers of the British newspaper, The Guardian, are accusing the outlet
of deactivating an online poll that asked readers to vote on “Person of
the Year” after it became apparent that J.K. Rowling would handily win.

“Tell us: who is your 2021 person of the year?” ran the headline,
posted on Dec. 15, with the subtitle, “Time Magazine chose billionaire
Tesla boss Elon Musk – but who would be your choice?” A short time
later, when Rowling was far and away in the lead, the voting form
disappeared, as did the results. A message in small print stated, “This
form has been deactivated and is closed to any further submissions.”

Rowling has been at the center of numerous cancel culture storms this
year for her refusal to deny the reality of biological sex. Earlier
this month she stirred up controversy by mocking Scotland’s law
enforcement policy that allows accused rapists to self-identify as
female. “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The
Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman,” she tweeted in reference
to an article titled, “Absurdity’ of police logging rapists as women.”

As The Daily Wire previously reported, trans activists have retaliated
against her refusal to capitulate to their agenda by threatening to
send her pipe bombs and publishing her home address on social media.
Showing the flair for dark humor that runs through her novels, the
world’s richest author wryly joked that she’s received “so many death
threats [she] could paper the house.”

The Guardian, which is generally known for being left-of-center, has so
far provided no explanation for why it took its poll offline with
Rowling firmly in the lead. But that didn’t stop the public from taking
to social media to share their suspicions.

“JK Rowling was voted Guardian’s person of the year. Rather than
acknowledge this, Guardian killed the competition. What utter
cowardice, Guardian,” said one tweet that received nearly 3000 “likes.”
Another, which more than 7000 people approved, read, “BREAKING:
Guardian deactivated the poll on ‘Person of the Year 2021’ because JK
Rowling was in the lead. Pathetic!”

One person even photoshopped a fake Guardian article that satirically
reported:

The Guardian has had to announce that cis-woman writer and
notorious transphobe J.K. Rowling will be the 2021 Person of
the Year. Rowling was awarded the honor after 112 recounts of
the votes and will have the award reluctantly sent to her via
second class post after a brief, secret ‘ceremony’ at the
Guardian’s well-appointed and upmarket offices in King’s Place
in London, which in no way betrays the paper’s working class
roots.

It seems the Guardian’s politically awkward popularity contest isn’t
going to be easily forgotten. When the outlet posted the question,
“What’s the funniest thing you saw on the internet in 2021,” to
Twitter, numerous people responded in the same vein as one user who
replied, “The Guardian closing its Person of the year award because JK
Rowling got so many votes — that was totalitarian levels of funny.”

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