Since muggles can't read minds (yet)

Cancel culture has been the in thing among the self-righteous. The politically correct lot just know it as 'cancelling', while the other lot - who are also PC by their own reckoning - know it as banning and boycotting.

J K Rowling had faced the cancel crowd before, when she had 'dared' to say how humans came in only two 'normal' gendered forms: male and female. They could then grow up to choose all other gender formats available on the menu. The Harry Potter creator faced a massive pushback, charged of being 'anti-trans(gender)', never mind that wasn't what she had said at all. But hey...

Last week, Rowling faced the most extreme form of cancel culture - a death threat. Going by the 'cancelfest' everyone seems to be gyrating to, it seems best to keep one's trap shut. Showing solidarity with another writer who was grievously stabbed - who, like Harry Potter's nemesis Lord Voldemort, is 'He Who Must Not Be Named' - and wishing for his recovery, had asked Twitter 'authorities' for 'some support' in taking down a post by a hardcore muggle that glorified the attacker of He Who Must Not Be Named. What followed was a warning from the muggle behind his Twitter handle, 'Don't worry you are next.' Cancelling cancel culture is too hard a boiled egg. So, the best thing to do? Don't write/speak/post what you think, since thought-reading is not real. Yet.