The once-beloved children’s author is working herself up over Scotland’s new bias law.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has jumped to defend J.K. Rowling, who is once again using her one wild and precious life to post obsessively about transgender women instead of doing literally anything else with her hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Harry Potter author took to X, formerly Twitter, on April 1 to share her thoughts on Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act, which went into effect the same day. The law criminalizes “stirring up hatred” related to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, trans identity, or being intersex, as the BBC reported. “Stirring up hatred” is further defined as communicating or behaving in a way “that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive” against a protected group. The offense is punishable by imprisonment of up to seven years, a fine, or both.
In response to the legislation, Rowling posted a long thread naming several prominent trans women in the U.K., including Mridul Wadhwa, the CEO of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Since it was April Fool’s day, Rowling decided to commemorate it by sarcastically affirming the womanhood of all the people she named in her thread. In the same breath that she said that a convicted child predator was “rightly sent to a women’s prison,” she also called out a number of trans women making anodyne comments about inclusion, seemingly implying that trans identity is inherently predatory.
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Prevent hate speech? Yes, desperately
Wait you think arresting her is proportionate?
If she sows hate speech? Yes.
Quote exactly some hate speech by her which is deserving of being locked up and link sources
Not stuff which is considered offensive, but quotes which genuinely deserve jail time
A proportionate response is banning of her social media accounts and any of her products which create revenue, not FUCKING JAIL.
So please, quote away.
That’s a quote from my comment that you replied to.
Holy shit really? You’re going with that?
You just turned the conversation on its head and then accused me of doing the same? hypocritical behaviour
What you really meant to say is: “no, arresting her isn’t proportionate, but she should be arrested if she does something she hasn’t done”
The woman has appeared in parliament to advocate for laws that will kill children. Yes, she deserves to go to prison.
Can you link me a source, I’ve never heard about this and don’t know the details and validity of these laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_J._K._Rowling#Transgender_rights
Not all of these are relevant to your question but they seem like the kind of thing you oughtta know
You’re right, none of those “advocate for laws which kill children”.
Weird take
I know she’s said some outrageous things but nothing in the above is deserving of jail time. Proportionality is completely lost on social media
Ugh this is sea lioning. Do you or do you not think JKR is transphobic? And do you or do you not think that trans rights are human rights?
Yes water is wet however thats importantly not what I’m discussing. I’m asking for sources about the previous claim that she’s advocating for British laws which kill children.
People really love twisting conversations comment by comment. Let’s stay on track here
Alright! Tbh it’s hard to see the line sometimes, and it’s impossible having a discussion with someone who just wants to launder some right wing view through a veneer of “just asking questions”.
I (not the person you’re responding to) make no claims that she has called for laws to execute kids. I do agree that anti trans laws that JKR advocates for will kill children, but the added layer of “via depression-induced suicide” is something hard to prove and easy to shift responsibility around.
I’m not British though. Maybe she’s also argued for some sort of “death penalty for going into the ‘wrong’ bathroom” type law. I wouldn’t know.
Nothing I’ve said is remotely right wing, I’m calling out extreme leftism crying to lock up anyone that disagrees with them.
Every single victim of a hate crime now wants you dead.
It almost feels like that given people’s comments on this site. Clearly I need to hang for being devils advocate
Reconsider.
What about my trans children? Who will look after them? JK Rowling?
I don’t think your “trans children” would appreciate what you’re doing here.