JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.
She said “freedom of speech and belief” was at an end if accurate description of biological sex was outlawed.
Earlier, Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf said the new law would deal with a “rising tide of hatred”.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
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Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.
What did JK Rowling specifically say that was hate speech and not a criticism?
Sorry, you think holocaust denial counts as “criticism?”
Would it also be “criticism” if you denied that the Nazis killed millions of Jews?
Do you not have any quotes? I personally don’t follow her or care to, so I have no idea what she said that would count as hate speech.
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/
I’m guessing you will excuse her as “just asking questions.”
Again, do you have any quotes from her that count as hate speech? Not looking for editorialized or sensationalized headlines
If only that article quoted her in it more than once…
I don’t really have to hold your hand and copy and paste the quotes from the article, do I? It’s not a very long article.
You don’t have any quotes, do you?
I do. I gave you a link with direct quotes from her. Again, do I really need to copy and paste them here? Are you really unable to just read a short article that they’re in? I mean, I’ll paste them if you are actually that lazy. Are you really that lazy?
Give me her worst quote that counts as hate speech to you. At this point I think you’re proving my point here, you are classifying criticism as hate speech and using it to go after political opponents.