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J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newl crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif.

Nabil Boudi, the Paris-based attorney of Khelif, confirmed to Variety that both figures were mentioned in the body of the complaint, posted to the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor’s office on Friday. 

The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. That “ensure[s] that the ‘prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages under pseudonyms, said Boudi. The complaint nevertheless mentions famously controversial figures.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lmao wtf.

"Yer a cunt, Joanne"- Hagrid probably.

[–] eestileib 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Robby Coltrane stands out among the HP cast members as having taken JKR's side on the culture war stuff.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Well that's unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

It's always interesting whether people consider getting offended vs allowing offense as being a strong-man attribute depending on the situation. Like, he's defending JK for being offended at other people living their lives, but people standing up for the oppressed makes them weak.

Maybe defending people is strong and getting offended by other people existing is weak.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, at least he admits he’s an old grumpy man.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Admitted. He died in 2022.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's worth mentioning that article is from 2020, around the time she had started pivoting from TERF-lite to TERF-MAX. It was...reasonably possible to assume at the time, for someone who wasn't paying close attention, that her opinions were still rooted in misguided concern rather than open bigotry.

She had only just posted her manifesto a few months earlier, according to Vox's helpful timeline, which reads reasonably if you're unaware of the multitude of false and misleading claims she parrots.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hagrid was a transphobe??

Oh that’s so disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

“Joanne Roowwling, you cunt”. -Snape maybe