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JKR and more bomb threats

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 06:59

JKR posted on Twitter that a user of another account posted her address, a picture of a pipe bomb and a handbook for making bombs.

If you are defending these people, you are defending terrorism now. It’s incredible how low they will go and still try to claim the moral high ground (although I suppose that’s space and they can’t really help thinking they should have all the space?).

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Conflictedunicorn · 02/07/2022 18:38

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Why? Why should the victim of bomb threats or any threat not call out the accuser on the off chance that person may have used a fake avatar? Should anyone who gets threats nor speak up about it? Don’t the traliban often blast people for wrongthink? Do you think they stop to think that persons avatar might not be them? So just to check, at what level of followers is it ok to call out threats you have received, just so I don’t make a faux pas?

Roseglen84 · 02/07/2022 18:34

TheWeeDonkey · 02/07/2022 18:29

JKR could become the victim of actual serious bodily harm and people like Margarita will be excusing it because JKR is a white billionaire.

The fact that she is a self made billionaire and her creativity has inspired thousands is a small detail to them.

Yes, exactly. She is a successful woman who will not sit down and be quiet. And that makes some people very angry.

Actually I think the fact that she hasn't made her money from marrying a man, but rather earned it all herself is extra annoying to a certain type of male person.

Larasizzler · 02/07/2022 18:34

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Conflictedunicorn · 02/07/2022 18:32

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Ffs JKR is not Spider-Man.

Conflictedunicorn · 02/07/2022 18:31

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Would you say that if it was any other person? If Nimco Ali got a death threat on line, should she be allowed to tweet about it? When Owen Jones did the same thing, was he wrong to tweet about it?

TheWeeDonkey · 02/07/2022 18:29

JKR could become the victim of actual serious bodily harm and people like Margarita will be excusing it because JKR is a white billionaire.

The fact that she is a self made billionaire and her creativity has inspired thousands is a small detail to them.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 02/07/2022 18:25

This is all a bit "look over there, a squirrel"

Ereshkigalangcleg · 02/07/2022 18:24

The person who put them in blast also has some lesser responsibility.

No.

PlantSpider · 02/07/2022 18:15

The person who put them in blast also has some lesser responsibility.

I think when you make threats of violence the victim of those threats doesn’t have a responsibility to stay quiet.

Larasizzler · 02/07/2022 18:11

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 18:00

Yes, she’s “punching down” on “tiny little accounts” by being the big bad cis billionaire.

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PlantSpider · 02/07/2022 17:56

There seems to be a new thing of accusing JK of ‘punching down’ when she responds to the smaller accounts sending her threats of violence, it’s ridiculous. Like in this recent article: www.politico.eu/article/metamorphosis-jk-rowling-trans-rights/

Conflictedunicorn · 02/07/2022 17:50

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And who would be to blame? The person who knowingly stole someone’s picture and sent threats or the victim? What makes you think the police would respond to this? Now if was a woman stating an opinion against the trans cult they’d be there with blues and twos, but a threat against a woman? Nah, too busy changing our pronouns

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 17:38

The police should deal with it. I think most of them are at Pride this month, though.

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 17:26

Obviously that is a risk (and not a small one) but it’s not acceptable for the war against women to be fought in public and the defence action to have to take place in private. We’re not covering up people’s crimes against us because ‘be kind’.

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 02/07/2022 17:16

If the owner of the account had used a picture they stole from FB/Insta etc (your child for example) as their profile pic then bad faith actors will reverse image search to dox the innocent person in the picture.

Someone who uses someone else's photo as a cover to send anonymous threats to women is the bad faith actor here, I think.

Plasmodesmata · 02/07/2022 17:15

I'm reminded of an occasion where Owen Jones was sent homophobic abuse on Twitter.

He did not do as Margarita suggests above. He set his twitter followers onto a woman whose twitter account had been hacked. Here's the thread from the time.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4554627-owen-jones-sent-revolting-homophobic-abuse

So if JK did the same thing as Owen is she wrong or is he right?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 02/07/2022 17:14

Exactly.

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 17:07

The public way in which this debate is being played out (women being banned from libraries, their work being taken down off websites, their meetings being invaded by aggressive protestors) means this is part of a wider public discourse anyway. It’s not some random threat. It’s part of the systematic monstering of females who say no to males, and therefore completely appropriate that it stays in the public domain.

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 02/07/2022 17:07

she is accusing of doing this

We can see they are doing this. I saw the tweet before she retweeted it because people picked it up.

Conflictedunicorn · 02/07/2022 17:04

MargaritaPie · 02/07/2022 16:57

"So it’s ok fir that person to send bomb threats but nor be called out for it"

Report to the police, let the police do their job instead of putting the law into the hands of random Twitter users. If threats of a terrorist nature have been made then I'm sure charges will be pressed and we will hear about it in the news and media and can comment on it then.

I'm not doubting JK Rowling at all, I'm just not a fan of witch-hunts or lynch-mobs.

Well, not on the GC side anyway amirite? Bet you’d be up for a witch-hunt if it was a GC person who had transgressed. Why should this person not be public ally allied out? I thought the traliban were all in for accountability and taking responsibility?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 02/07/2022 17:04

A thing we can all rely on, whatever happens to JK Rowling, however unhinged and misogynistic the perpetrator, whatever she does about it, she's the one in the wrong.

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 17:03

‘Really we should all be checking our privilege, because clearly the fact that none of us women make regular rape and death threats to all these pipe bombers is a pure side effect of our privilege.’

And we are weaponising our tears.

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 17:02

‘Report to the police, let the police do their job instead of putting the law into the hands of random Twitter users. If threats of a terrorist nature have been made then I'm sure charges will be pressed and we will hear about it in the news and media and can comment on it then.’

Where’s the if?

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