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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.

read more: https://www.them.us/story/jk-rowling-rishi-sunak-social-media-trans

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If that's how you read it.

There's a teacher in the book who can see through clothes at a children's school and its held in the book by administration as a good thing to have around..... Think about that.

Ed: not enough?

A ghost woman who is canonically age 37 lives in the boys restroom of a children's school and again canonically watches potter and others bathe.... Its so well accepted its in the movies and no one thinks twice about it.

Polymorph potion, be anyone or anything of any age... I didn't really need to explain that.

Luck potion canonically a psuedodate rape drug.

Love potion a literal and unabashed date rape drug.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Damn, you finally produced some examples, should have started with those! Ill admit most of those are sketchy but man do they not play anywhere NEAR a large enough part in any if the books for you to assume any of us are going to be on the same page as you without those examples already present

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a teacher, Its not my job to help people read.

An adult bathing with children and making inappropriate comments. "That's not pedophilia!" I think I know now who not to leave kids with.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao, you're certainly not smart enough to be one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, don't make an actual argument just insult me personally because you disagree. Neat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lmao, I knew you were stupid enough to go there, reread your texts and tell me who started insulting the other party first

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You.

I simply said I wouldn't leave you alone with kids if you think adults bathing with children especially children that are not their own is ok.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lmao, ok troll. Time to head back to 4chan, I'm done having an argument with someone in bad faith

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

There's the issue you're looking for an argument, everyone else is having a conversation.