JKR receiving death threats for supporting Salman Rushdie

This is true. The Daily Mail isn't doing what it does simply to support women, or to be Islamophobic, or for any disinterested reason. It does what it does to sell newspapers. It does this by scratching the itches of its readership. And sometimes by pouring itching powder on those itches. It will happily dissemble, prevaricate and mislead if needs be. It has a pragmatic approach to the truth.

The fact that it is currently supporting women's rights is a good thing, in the same way as its support for justice for Stephen Lawrence was a good thing. It's creating a lot of exposure. It has an enormous circulation. Let's use it.

I'm glad the DM is doing this, even though I still won't have the paper in my house.

She's being roundly called out on twitter for her vile behaviour and that disingenuous twitter poll. Nasty piece of work.

It moves me to tears when I think about how brave JKR has been in the face of a vicious hate campaign, with nearly everyone who should have been defending her embarrassing themselves with displays of cupidity, cowardice and credulity. Then when I think she did it to defend someone else, it’s even more incredible, isn’t it? And she’s winning.

That's a very good, strong statement from Warner Brothers particularly the bit you highlighted.

How do they pick the Chair of the SOA and how do they remove them?

She’s being her usual horrible self.

There is a call for her to be kicked off being Chair (!m?) of the society of authors (but only the ones we approve on). She is being pretty awful.

Joanne Harris also tweeted something about the Joan of Arc hoo-hah akin to 'Gender criticals are having their minds blown by a woman wearing trousers.' Errr, no, we're having our minds blown by people who claim to be feminists saying that someone wasn't a woman because she wore trousers.

Like I said, wilfully thick.

Suzanne Moore is a fucking legend.

Obviously JKR is too, but that's more widely established.

Bouji quislings is about right.

Wow...
At least Suzanne Moore is great

I just wanted to share this glorious tweet from Suzanne Moore.

After the Rushdie attack, she posted this little mini poll asking writers whether they’ve received death threats, then later she deleted it. The tone of the options in the poll was very off (almost like she thought it was funny). It was less a response to the horror of what happened to SR, more a facetious response to a linked death threat issued to JKR.

What did she say?? (Don't go near Twitter)

It’s just bizarre, the way she has reacted to actual threats of assassination. I don’t care what your political opinions are, it’s unacceptable to threaten to murder people. No need for anyone to be facetious about that. It’s not controversial.

I'm not put off reading books by authors who are trans (love Jan Morris's books), I'm not put off reading books by authors who have different views from me, or even views that I find offensive, but I am put off reading anything by Joanne Harris because she's shown herself to be wilfully thick, and that I can't forgive.

What was going on with Joanne Harris and that Twitter poll? Shocking stuff.

And the man who threatened JKR only got suspended from Twitter, whilst Aja - a black woman got banned for posting a picture of a TW playing women's football and stating it wasn't fair because said person was clearly male.

Count me in as another.

What group are constantly known for making death threats against her?

Agree, @ScreamingMeMe .

Day after brown man stabs and almost kills a famous writer who'd been accused of islamophobia and was subject to a call for religious assassination, another famous writer gets a death threat for tweeting in support of severely injured man. That's newsworthy. Downplaying it is really not working @picklebrine . I'd say it's stirring it up, in fact.

Same here

I think the key issue here might be "straight after Salman Rushdie was stabbed" actually.

JKR faces MORE death threats from a different set of ideological extremists.

I'm not convinced they are not the usual arseholes.

The man who tried to kill Rushdie is the one stirring up Islamophobia

All extremists who are likely to resort to violence, or threaten violence to intimidate people, are dangerous. Nothing to do with them being Muslims, Trans, right or left wing, or whatever. It is behaviour unacceptable in a civilised society.

The fact that JKR is first strongly criticised by the right wing press (the Mail) and then TRAs, and then individuals who identify as Muslims, is extraordinary and very worrying. The common link? The fact that she is a strong successful woman? The problem? Some men, however they identify, can't cope with this?

I hope she is OK. There is too much hate/violence aimed at public figures, admirable, likeable or not. David Amess, Jo Cox, but also Rebekah Vardy, all sorts of people.

"Hate" is seriously over used, but actual threats need to be clamped down on effectively and quickly whether by police, social media or whoever. It might be just an inadequate teenager sitting in his bedroom, but the fear created can be debilitating.

I hope JKR is OK. The Salman Rushdie attack must have been terrifying to any author who has previously faced threats.

(And if our visitors don't see this, or acknowledge this well...I don't know.)

I really hope this will inspire more editorial courage. Bin the sensitivity readers. Stop deplatforming people. Call out violent threats rather than opting for the (much less risky) calling out of opinions that don’t match your own. Shun open letters.