Video: Culture Critic 'Echo Chamberlain' On The Vindication Of J.K. Rowling

A YouTube history of the controversy around her stand for women's rights

Nicholas Sheppard, aka ‘Echo Chamberlain’, is a British writer and musician as well as a popular culture critic on YouTube. He is a frequent guest on on the Critical Drinker channel as well as other panel shows that discuss cultural criticism. I have always found his insights and analysis good. Now he has applied them to the controversy over J.K. Rowling’s public stand for women’s rights in this video.

As he pronounces Rowling his “person the year”, Sheppard uses polling data and petitions to reveal that the controversy over her views has been almost entirely confined to the “cultural establishment”, where the luxury belief in transgender ‘identities’ is strongest. Despite her stand, Rowling remained on the political left, refusing to become the ‘right wing’ enemy that transgender advocacy desperately wanted to frame as its only opposition. It is “the rare instance where the absence of a political flank becomes an asset”, he notes.