Jon Stewart clarifies remarks he made during a December podcast episode in which he called out the portrayal of goblins in the 'Harry Potter' franchise.
"I cannot stress this enough,” the former “Daily Show” host said. “I’m not accusing J.K. Rowling of being antisemitic."
"There is no reasonable person that could have watched it and not seen it as a lighthearted conversation amongst colleagues and chums ... enjoying ourselves about Harry Potter, and my experience watching it for the first time in a theater as a Jewish guy, and how some tropes are so embedded in society that they’re basically invisible even in a considered process like moviemaking," he said in a video,"I cannot stress this enough," he said. "I’m not accusing J.K.
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