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.
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.
Got it. You’re incredibly lazy. Here you go. I bolded the most relevant parts in case reading an entire paragraph plus a couple of other sentences is just too much effort:
Holocaust denial is not “criticism.”
“The first victims of the holocaust”. Where did she say the holocaust did not happen?
They were, in fact, the first victims of the Holocaust. Which she denied. That’s what’s known as Holocaust denial.
https://www.gendergp.com/remembering-the-institute-for-sexual-research-and-lgbtq-victims-of-the-holocaust/
https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany#Ransacking_of_the_Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft
Believe it or not, admitting that the Nazis killed Jews but saying they only killed one million instead of six? Also Holocaust denial, not criticism.
By the way, if you had not been ridiculously lazy and had read the article which put those quotes in context, you will see that she still denied it after many people educated her on the subject.
Do you deny it?
I do not deny the holocaust. I am of Jewish descent. Surely you can see that saying someone is the first victim is not even close to the same as saying some is not a victim. Are you purposely being obtuse?
Yes, and saying the Nazis only killed one million Jews is not the same as saying the Nazis didn’t kill any Jews.
And yet both are Holocaust denial. You being of “Jewish descent” doesn’t change that denying parts of the Holocaust happened is Holocaust denial. You can be a rabbi, but if you say no Roma people were killed in the Holocaust, you’re a Holocaust denier. “I’m Jewish” is not a shield.
She was shown she was wrong and she doubled down on it. And now you’re supporting her because you refuse to look at the context which is also a form of Holocaust denial.
That is not hate speech and I do not support JK Rowling. I do support freedom of speech. Like I predicted, this law would be used to silence political opponents. Like you are in support of here.
Holocaust denial is considered hate speech based on the parameters I gave you.
She is not being silenced. She posted multiple tweets about this issue.
That is not holocaust denial. She did not deny the holocaust happened or that they were not victims. You are being purposely obtuse.