She is apparently out of the country and thus cannot be arrested. When she returns to Scotland, however, she can be. No doubt the police will not arrest her unless her comments are truly egregious, but less famous people are certainly in jeopardy.
You are correct. The Reign of Terror has already begun. Hate speech is now whatever someone decides it is on a Monday morning. The following Monday it is something completely different. The only consistent theme is the inconsistency of rules and common sense.
That is the way hysteria and hate work. The hate actually comes from those who seek to control thought and speech.
Social media comments made by JK Rowling [on Monday, April 1] challenging Scotland's new hate crime law are not being treated as criminal, Police Scotland has said.
The Harry Potter author described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.
The new law creates a new crime of "stirring up hatred" relating to certain protected characteristics [but the law pointedly excludes sex].
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which came into effect on Monday, makes it a criminal offence to make derogatory comments based on disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
However, the new Scottish law does not include misogynistic or misandrist speech that denigrates people based on their sex or age, no matter how vile, cruel and dehumanizing it is. (Other laws in the UK already place limits on speech that "stirs up hatred" based on race and ethnicity.)
The force said complaints had been received [against Rowling for posting that the ten "transgender women" she listed, all of them public figures, are men] but no action would be taken.
Reacting to the news, Ms Rowling posted on X: "I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women - irrespective of profile or financial means - will be treated equally under the law.
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Roll up a lie - "trans excluding radical (???) feminist" - into a slur, repeat the slur as viciously and endlessly as possible, in a mob when possible, and somehow it gets mainstream acceptance. Believing men aren't women is "radical" and whoever does should be ostracized.
Standard far-left playbook. If it fails, then play victim - in this case, claim everyone is trying to murder you
Rowling has said if anyone else gets in trouble with Scottish authoriities under the new law for doing things like saying that so-called transgender women are men - and pointing out that some of them are convicted rapists and child molesters, and many of them speak and act in ways that are misogynistic, narcissistic, male supremacist and abusive towards actual women and girls - she'll repost the material that landed them in hot water. Several other high profile figures in the UK have said they'll do the same.
Radical feminists aren't necessarily radical in the sense of being wild-eyed revolutionaries who want to overthrow the existing order and remake society from the ground up.
The radical in "radical feminist" means "root"- which was the original definition of the word.
A radical feminist is simply someone who believes that the power imbalance between human males and females - and the historical dominance and subjugation of human females by males, aka patriarchy - is rooted in biological sex and the sexual dimorphism and markedly disparate reproductive functions/roles of males and females in the species Homo sapiens.
Whereas the gender theory/gender studies kind of feminist epitomized by academic guru Judith Butler say that the power imbalance between the two human sexes and the development of the so-called patriarchy have nothing to with biological reality - but rather that they are rooted in the sexist cultural stereotypess and expectations that get layered on top of human sex which collectively constitute gender.
The focus of radical feminist analysis is the material reality of sex - male and female. The focus of the kind of analysis used to promote things like "gender studies," "gender balance," "gender equity" and "transgenderism" is gender - femininity and masculinity - and the "performance" of gender.
The genderists define women/girls as people who "identify with" and "perform" stereotypes and norms of femininity and men/boys as people who "identify with" and "perform" stereotypes and norms of masculinity. Whereas the radical feminst view is simply that women are adult human females, men are adult human females, boys are minor-age human males, and girls are minor-age human females.
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Not only should she be arrested, jailed (minimum 4 years), fined (at least $200 million), but all her books should be immediately banned and pulled from libraries, bookstores, and online.
Not only is she a HATER, but I heard she also is skeptical about MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING !
Roll up a lie - "trans excluding radical (???) feminist" - into a slur, repeat the slur as viciously and endlessly as possible, in a mob when possible, and somehow it gets mainstream acceptance. Believing men aren't women is "radical" and whoever does should be ostracized.
Standard far-left playbook. If it fails, then play victim - in this case, claim everyone is trying to murder you
Radical feminists aren't necessarily radical in the sense of being wild-eyed revolutionaries who want to overthrow the existing order and remake society from the ground up.
The radical in "radical feminist" means "root"- which was the original definition of the word.
A radical feminist is simply someone who believes that the power imbalance between human males and females - and the historical dominance and subjugation of human females by males, aka patriarchy - is rooted in biological sex and the sexual dimorphism and markedly disparate reproductive functions/roles of males and females in the species Homo sapiens.
Whereas the gender theory/gender studies kind of feminist epitomized by academic guru Judith Butler say that the power imbalance between the two human sexes and the development of the so-called patriarchy have nothing to with biological reality - but rather that they are rooted in the sexist cultural stereotypess and expectations that get layered on top of human sex which collectively constitute gender.
The focus of radical feminist analysis is the material reality of sex - male and female. The focus of the kind of analysis used to promote things like "gender studies," "gender balance," "gender equity" and "transgenderism" is gender - femininity and masculinity - and the "performance" of gender.
The genderists define women/girls as people who "identify with" and "perform" stereotypes and norms of femininity and men/boys as people who "identify with" and "perform" stereotypes and norms of masculinity. Whereas the radical feminst view is simply that women are adult human females, men are adult human females, boys are minor-age human males, and girls are minor-age human females.
Maybe .01% of the "terf" slur is used on anyone who follows or even knows about the hated intellectual theorist. It's a straw man, to reduce easily perceived facts into someone's opinion. Someone presumed bad.
Try talking about overpopulation and you'll be slammed as a Malthusian before long, accused of eugenicism, etc etc.
Social theorists tend to completely lose touch with the people they theorize about.
JK Rowling could be investigated by police for misgendering trans people under Scotland’s new hate crime law, an SNP minister has said. The party’s community safety minister, Siobhian Brown, had previously claimed that misgendering – for example, using the pronoun “he” when talking about a trans woman – would not count as a hate crime, but she has now said it would be a police decision.
HOW has such clear-cut inciteful hate crime not resulted in arrest yet?
More police corruption.
More Boomer pandering.
Disgusting I am expected to live in a world where misgendering hate is not challenged.
Lol, like a right wing government would cause local farmers to storm parliament in tractors flinging manure. A Nationalist right wing government would make local family farms possible and noble not the opposite. Globalist Left wings support the multinational corporate farms destroying the environment.
JK Rowling could be investigated by police for misgendering trans people under Scotland’s new hate crime law, an SNP minister has said. The party’s community safety minister, Siobhian Brown, had previously claimed that misgendering – for example, using the pronoun “he” when talking about a trans woman – would not count as a hate crime, but she has now said it would be a police decision.
HOW has such clear-cut inciteful hate crime not resulted in arrest yet?
More police corruption.
More Boomer pandering.
Disgusting I am expected to live in a world where misgendering hate is not challenged.
Good for her for not giving in to the delusions of mentally ill people.Transgender women are not real women,and never will be.Trans men are not real men.That's fact.That's biology.
Weird that you give a sh!t. You should call people what they'd like to be called...a nickname, a middle name rather than their first name, an earned degree title (I know a retired MD who insists on being called "Dr. Last Name" even though he's no longer practicing, and he gets offended when anyone calls him "Mr." And, unless you're a hermit, you FOR SURE have been fooled by a transgendered person.
You're "a genius" and yet somehow missed the most incredibly obvious sarcasm and wrote 26 paragraphs rage-responding to it? What hope is there for the rest of us..