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It was no April Fool’s joke.

Harry Potter author-turned culture warrior J.K. Rowling kicked off the month with an 11-tweet social media thread in which she argued 10 transgender women were men — and dared Scottish police to arrest her.

Rowling’s intervention came as a controversial new Scottish government law, aimed at protecting minority groups from hate crimes, took effect. And it landed amid a fierce debate over both the legal status of transgender people in Scotland and over what actually constitutes a hate crime.

Already the law has generated far more international buzz than is normal for legislation passed by a small nation’s devolved parliament.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

She literally pals around with nazis and denies portions of the holocaust, if you're gonna try and argue you can hang out with nazis, deny the holocaust, and still be a liberal, I implore you to reevaluate your own values.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also... even barring hanging out with literal nazis, if your whole fucking thing is trying to deny human rights to vulnerable segments of the population, you're a piece of shit, even if you are actually "pretty liberal" otherwise.

I'm so sick of hearing about this irrelevant piece of shit and everyone who makes excuses for her.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Seriously. If someone's support is transactional, it isn't worth shit. It's not like having an okay position on some issues means you "get" to call for a little extermination, as a treat.

You don't have to be perfect on every issue, but for fuck's sake, there are hard lines when it comes to people's right to exist, and live free. And even any decent takes she had are long past, since nearly ALL she does nowadays is rage tweet about trans people from her fucking castle.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue you also can't support censorship and be a liberal.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Godwin point jackpot