I hope she does. Amnesty should serve as a valuable lesson for why you don't cave to bigots and bullies. They deleted the report from their site, deciding trans rights weren't human rights worth fighting for, hoping to avoid a lawsuit. I hope they get sued and have to spend all that money anyway.
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JK Rowling has spoken about how she wrote the first Harry Potter book while she was employed at Amnesty International and how much that experience influenced her writing, and how she learned “the power of human empathy” from working there.
Ummm. Ok.
How the fuck does someone look at a charity organization that has been fighting for human rights for over half a century and think "they're the bad guys"
If ignorance is bliss, Rowling must be in an orgasmic state of euphoria at all times.
Not a charity and she's not an activist. She's a fascist ghoul and a professional bigot.
Stop backing down. Pay me to fly out there and drop kick her in the hallways on sight.
Where are you then ? A flight to Edinburgh from most of the US is only a few hundred quid, I'm sure we can crowd source that
All due respect, but if we’re raising money to give her an ass whoopin, I think good ole Stone Cold would do a better job than you and he’s on record pro-LGBTQ+ and much more progressive than one would think for a drunk Texas redneck How do we crowd source a series of stunners and chair shots
as much fun as this sounds, it'd be pretty bad optics no matter how justified to have a man beating the shit out of a "feminist," even if she is a TERF and a massive conservative who does far more to hurt women than she'll ever do to help them.
Are there any pro-LGBTQ+ women wrestlers who could take her down? Hell, maybe we get Imane Khelif, even if they aren't explicitly pro-LGBTQ+ I'd bet she has an axe to grind with Rowling over some of the transphobic shit Rowling directed at her.
This story at PinkNews is linked by the techdirt story:
JK Rowling shared a screenshot of a page from the Amnesty International UK website which had previously hosted the report. Rowling’s post read: “Translation: oops, didn’t realise people outside our ideological bubble are this p***** off about the loss of sex-based rights. We remain implacably opposed to any organisation fighting to retain them, but shove in the words ‘rights of women’ to keep the bigots happy.”
She also said: “It appears that (as many of us have suspected for years) Amnesty believes certain kinds of humans don’t deserve rights: women, girls and those who are proudly same-sex attracted. I hope donors from those groups are taking note.”
That's just some breathtaking mental gymnastics there, it's so twisted-into-knots it's barely coherent. Who even are "the bigots" in her sarcastic statement? How could a writer write that absolute serpent of a statement and not have second thoughts?
Describing her as a writer is awfully charitable of you. She only wrote one story worth telling (for kids), and her attempts at anything else have been pretty lukewarm.
She is more like a hateful Internet celebrity than anything else.
This is a common logical fallacy when it comes to rights. She wrongly feels that giving others the right to live their life is actually infringing on her and other people's lives. This is of course ridiculous and false which is why she is a bigot.
Her position is also anti anti-discrimination. This is the common trope of the right. They view fighting against societal problems as unacceptable because it makes them look bad. It is a kill the messenger approach that entrenched players use to try and justify their insane hate.
Imagine being able to go down in history as a beloved children's author, but being remembered for being a hateful bigot instead.
Isn't that kind of par for the course? I.e. L Frank Baum, who wrote the Wizard of Oz was a real piece of shit.
Ok, Voldecunt
I work for an orphanage. We mostly have kids who could go back home if the situation at home changed. I tried to contact Lumos about a particular group of kids that would have been a perfect fit. Turns out you can't contact them. I'm not even sure if they do anything apart from slag off orphanages.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
I hope she falls down a flight of stairs into a pile of dirty needles. Fucking cunt.
Claiming something is an opinion doesn't protect you from defamation lawsuit.
But since she's most likely a public figure, she'll have to prove that defamatory statement are both false and done to damage her business. Not likely to happen.
Again? I thought she already did this and Amnesty caved completely like they have been doing so often recently. Cause they are a shadow of themselves.

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