Edinburgh Harry Potter Tour

I agree lastsummer. It’s all very well trying to engage people in debate and being open to persuasion by logical argument, but at the end of the day so much of this genderist nonsense is espoused by people who are either blindingly stupid or intellectually dishonest. And I don’t care if it hurts their feelings to say so.

iT sHWould BE mADe a HaYte CWiMe!

Leaving gum under tables should also be made a hate crime IMO

Methinks someone does not even know what a 'hate crime' is in UK Law, not a particular offence but any offence aggravated by hatred of one of the protected groups, including those with gender reassignment.

The stupidity of the mad genderists is just too much...I can't take it!🥴

Vivienne?

Because there aren’t any

Les make it simple

Leave the crime aspect out

How and where does jk express hatred ?

A hate crime to stand up for vulnerable women and children? While also expressing compassion for people with dysphoria? You want to declare women to be a valid target for abuse while exploiting their work? There is a name for that. The authoritarian mindset of gender identity ideologists is really disturbing.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3602996-Edinburghs-The-Skinny-magazine-publishes-defence-of-fuck-up-terfs-tweet

It is JKR's message of inclusion and tolerance that is in the books.

Which bit of what JKR said is the hate crime exactly?

Good. Sick to death of Rowlings anti trans stand. It should be made a hate crime.

I’ve just emailed them so let’s see if I get an answer. I certainly won’t recommend them to any visitors.
The tours appear to be tip based unless you book a private tour.

It’s completely bonkers. The books weren’t set in Edinburgh and the films weren’t filmed there, so the only connection to the city is JKR herself.

Stonking hypocrisy.

“We’d like to continue to profit from the work of JK Rowling, who as well as creating the fictional world that we now use to make money, has also done us the enormous service of not cracking down on our unauthorised use of her intellectual property. However, we need to tell you that we think she’s horrid and wrong, and we dislike her very much indeed, while continuing to profit from her work. Thank you”.

It’s all bullshit anyway, there’s any number of fantastical claims swilling around Edinburgh of “this is where she got inspiration for x” or “this is where she sat when she wrote y”, and she’s on record as saying most of it is nonsense. Doesn’t stop grifters like this crew, though.

Where have they B E E N??????

Prime time for performative tantrumming a reasoned and persuasive ethical critique of JK Rowling’s audacity in tweeting tweets that somebody else wouldn’t have tweeted was some sixteen months ago. If the situation has been so dire, why and how have PotterTrail stayed silent so long?

And where’s PotterTrail’s denunciation of the rape and death threats directed against Rowling, and other outspoken feminists in Scotland? Of the shoring up of a toxic misogynist culture? Of the silencing of women? Of the normalisation of rape and sexual violence?

How long do you have to wait to decide that these things are (also) wrong, PotterTrail?

Grab a wand and join your robed guide on the original tour in Edinburgh designed for Harry Potter fans! You'll discover magical locations that inspired characters and scenes in the series, visit places where JK Rowling wrote the books and even learn a spell or two along the way

Hypocrites!

I hope JK Rowling is either getting royalties from them using her characters or sues them for copyright infringement.

Sometimes unpleasant people come up with great works.

Sometimes unpleasant people come up with crap posts.

Spacey?

Makes a fucking change from Hitler, I suppose.

But is just as fucking arse bearing, so you crack on with that bullshit. I find it tremendously helpful when people go straight for nuclear options, cuts out all the legwork of pointing out the absurdities.

Lol they don’t charge and they are dead sad that they have to do tours celebrating that well known transphobic JK Rowling

Cripes must hurt them so hard they have to do them tours yet crying inside

You know what. As adults just don’t do the tours. Fuck off and do something else

And stop leeching off the work off a woman who you obviously hate

Fuck off whiny fuckers

It's posts like that that remind me this is a long game and eventually it will default to common sense when in hindsight the activities of the trans activists will look like some kind of collective insanity.