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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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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.

Conflictedunicorn · 02/07/2022 16:48

MargaritaPie · 02/07/2022 13:33

Obviously this is wrong but shouldn't she have at least censored the account she is accusing of doing this before broadcasting them to 13.9M followers? There are now abusive comments advocating violence towards the person she has accused.

JK Rowling should have gone straight to the police with this, not straight to Social Media.

So it’s ok fir that person to send bomb threats but nor be called out for it? Why? Why should she not let people know what has happened? And if you expect sympathy for someone who has sent a bomb threat to someone, again, why? Are we supposed to give them a pass because they are trans? If it had been the IRA making a bomb threat, should that not be called out?

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/07/2022 16:47

I saw earlier that someone (barrister Ania?) had been very on the ball and screenshotted most of that account before it disappeared. I thought Twitter had chucked the user out but apparently they hadn't. The user has deactivated the account so could re-appear with a namechange if Twitter and the police don't track them down. However, it looked as if the person behind the account had been contacting real people and mentioned working with them, so hopefully trackable.

PearlClutch · 02/07/2022 16:27

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.

Really, JKR should be apologising to the pipe owners for making them feel so cross and forcing them do all these awful things.

PearlClutch · 02/07/2022 16:23

The pipe bombers think we are horrible mean old women. The pipe bombers think we are bigots. The pipe bombers want us to be kind and to teach us to be kind they will send us rape and death threats until we learn our lesson.

PearlClutch · 02/07/2022 16:22

achillestoes · 02/07/2022 14:19

Why are we meant to be protecting the identities of potential pipe bombers again?

Because in case we hurt the feels of the pipe bombers, I think?

LunaLights · 02/07/2022 16:16

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Oh, of course that’s all she had to do. Report to twatter, and they would rush to her aid, just like they always do with all the violent abuse/rape threats/death threats she has received in the past…… FFS.

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 15:38

@Larasizzler

I see. I suppose it could be a stolen picture.

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Theblondestoftheblonde · 02/07/2022 15:37

Floisme · 02/07/2022 14:11

Less is more, MargaritaPie, less is more. The first four words of your post were all that were needed.

😂

Quicknamechangefortoday · 02/07/2022 15:27

Unfortunately I doubt the police will be able to do much, as they’ll no doubt be busy arresting a middle class woman from Surrey called Jane for saying women with penises are men (probably).

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 02/07/2022 15:26

MishyJDI · 02/07/2022 07:28

How do any of you know a trans person is behind this? Talk about jump to conclusions and condemnation. Let the evidence be pursued and justice follow, rather than piling in….

No one has said a trans person is.

What is being said is that these actions are being done in their name. They should call it out.

Larasizzler · 02/07/2022 15:21

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LordLoveADuck · 02/07/2022 15:05

@achillestoes ""She’s not human""."Where have we heard things like this before?"

Where indeed.

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 14:30

‘The account was only 3 weeks old when the threat was made, fortunately the (likely false) pfp cannot be reverse image searched.’

I’m sorry, I don’t understand.

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TheBiologyStupid · 02/07/2022 14:28

Conflictedunicorn · 02/07/2022 07:16

I do think most trans people are not like that, but they need to stand up and condemn this shit. This is being done in their name. They cannot complain that ‘people are scared of transpeople for no reason’ when their ‘allies’ are sending bomb threats, rape threats and murder threats to women. And it is usually women who get the worst of the abuse. The only reason people feel emboldened to do this is because no one says stop it.

Absolutely this!

Larasizzler · 02/07/2022 14:24

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achillestoes · 02/07/2022 14:19

Why are we meant to be protecting the identities of potential pipe bombers again?

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PearlClutch · 02/07/2022 14:11

MargaritaPie · 02/07/2022 13:33

Obviously this is wrong but shouldn't she have at least censored the account she is accusing of doing this before broadcasting them to 13.9M followers? There are now abusive comments advocating violence towards the person she has accused.

JK Rowling should have gone straight to the police with this, not straight to Social Media.

Violent threats are wrong.

If anyone makes threats, that is the responsibility of the person making the threat.

It is not the responsibility of the woman being threatened to protect the person threatening her.

Hope that's clear as clear can be.

Floisme · 02/07/2022 14:11

Less is more, MargaritaPie, less is more. The first four words of your post were all that were needed.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/07/2022 14:06

Circumferences · 02/07/2022 13:57

What's the context out of curiosity?

TRAs do love their threats of violence and rape, and violent rape etc, but why was it sent in this instance? Did JKR say something about gender ideology or was it a thread about her new book?
Not that it matters tremendously I'm just interested...

The screenshot she posted includes a tweet of hers commenting on Twitter deleting tweets from TullipR, a male detransitioner who has had a lot of publicity recently since he described the medical problems he now has since genital reassignment surgery.

OnlyLoveCan · 02/07/2022 14:03

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/07/2022 14:02

MargaritaPie · 02/07/2022 13:33

Obviously this is wrong but shouldn't she have at least censored the account she is accusing of doing this before broadcasting them to 13.9M followers? There are now abusive comments advocating violence towards the person she has accused.

JK Rowling should have gone straight to the police with this, not straight to Social Media.

And yet when she followed a policy of not replying to or commenting about dick pix posted on the Twitter thread she set up for children's drawings during lockdown, she was criticised for not saying she was reporting them. Almost as if nothing she does is ever right.

PeekAtYou · 02/07/2022 14:00

MargaritaPie · 02/07/2022 13:33

Obviously this is wrong but shouldn't she have at least censored the account she is accusing of doing this before broadcasting them to 13.9M followers? There are now abusive comments advocating violence towards the person she has accused.

JK Rowling should have gone straight to the police with this, not straight to Social Media.

Twitter are notorious for having a very left wing (pro TRA and anti-GC) agenda and sometime they need lots of people to report a post before they will act on it. She's not unreasonable to ask her followers to also report so it's removed quickly

Circumferences · 02/07/2022 13:57

What's the context out of curiosity?

TRAs do love their threats of violence and rape, and violent rape etc, but why was it sent in this instance? Did JKR say something about gender ideology or was it a thread about her new book?
Not that it matters tremendously I'm just interested...

Circumferences · 02/07/2022 13:55

Sorry I just find the defense of TRA violence quite indefensible