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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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Rowling literally did holocaust denial not too long ago

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  • [+] -26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Idk if she did or didn't, but censorship isn't a liberal solution

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's telling that you stopped replying to the thoughtful explanations on why this isn't censorship and decided to keep calling it censorship.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago

    "Its telling you stopped replying once I pointed this out"

    I'm sorry but that was just a ridiculous thing to say- it had been a couple hours, and I was doing other things in my life- plus was half asleep as it was 2am. I think its important to try to understand the situations others could be in aren't identical to your own- that is empathy.

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