JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.
She said “freedom of speech and belief” was at an end if accurate description of biological sex was outlawed.
Earlier, Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf said the new law would deal with a “rising tide of hatred”.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
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Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.
I think the line is being drawn at “don’t sympathize with
terrorist groupsan opressive theocratic government” (publicly stating “at least the taliban know what a woman is”) and “don’t directly fund hate groups”.(Edited, see comment below)
That’s not sympathizing with terrorist groups.
Using the Taliban as your source for moral authority is 100% aligning yourself with a terrorist group. Perhaps “sympathizing” isn’t the most accurate word, but are we here to be insufferable pedants or understand the issue?
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Can you think of one valid reason why anyone would cite a terrorist organization as a moral authority in anything? Replace the word “Taliban” with “Nazis” and see how it sounds.
Terrorist for ones are maybe freedom fighters for others - kind of sketchy line over there.
Whose freedom does the Taliban fight for? Because the people in the country of Afghanistan don’t feel very free.
They were fighting against first Sowjet and than US-American occupation.
When you woke up today did you decide you were gonna make excuses for the Taliban right there and then or did it kinda just happen? Holy shit.
Taliban are obviously the only terrorist group on the planet and rebels were never before labeled as terrorists.
They’re not rebels. They literally are the government of Afghanistan.
Do you ever try to understand what the other person is saying? Why bother otherwise?
Which other terrorist group did that TERF sympathize with?
How should I know? I personally don’t follow those crazy people.
Technically correct, the best kind of correct! (they are technically the legit government of Afghanistan despite being a proxy warzone for the US and USSR(?) as I understand it)