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Private Eye has a dig at JK Rowling over Salman Rushdie attack

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Euforia · 24/08/2022 12:04

Do they they not know that she had a death threat made against her? I suppose they think only threats against male authors are important.

Picture is from the latest issue.

Private Eye has a dig at JK Rowling over Salman Rushdie attack
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thekooples · 24/08/2022 15:58

ErrolTheDragon · 24/08/2022 15:49

JKR knows that she only has to like a tweet and the right wing media will jump on it and make it about trans rights.

Really? So what do you suggest, that she never tweets or likes a tweet ever again? Hmm

JKR can do whatever she chooses, I said

JKR knows that she only has to like a tweet and the right wing media will jump on it and make it about trans rights.

I know that, she knows that and you know that.

PurgatoryOfPotholes · 24/08/2022 15:50

Banderita · 24/08/2022 13:53

It's not her fault that the Daily Mail take every tweet she makes or likes and use it to push their anti-trans agenda

The Daily Mail don't have an "anti-trans" agenda, they have a pro-women's rights agenda.

You're both incorrect.

The Daily Mail has a selling-newspapers-agenda and a get-you-all-clicking-agenda.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/08/2022 15:49

JKR knows that she only has to like a tweet and the right wing media will jump on it and make it about trans rights.

Really? So what do you suggest, that she never tweets or likes a tweet ever again? Hmm

IcakethereforeIam · 24/08/2022 15:46

In this instance the right wing media didn't get the chance, the tras got there first. The rw media may have got there eventually.

@thekooples I'm sure you didn't mean to but that comes across a bit victim blamey.

thekooples · 24/08/2022 15:39

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/08/2022 15:22

So it really wasn’t JKR who made this about trans rights. It was the trans rights lobby.

Indeed.

JKR knows that she only has to like a tweet and the right wing media will jump on it and make it about trans rights.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/08/2022 15:22

So it really wasn’t JKR who made this about trans rights. It was the trans rights lobby.

Indeed.

pollyhemlock · 24/08/2022 15:16

JKR tweeted support for Rushdie. As did many other writers. She then received a death threat which she highlighted and reported on Twitter. Joanne Harris then posted her ridiculous disingenuous ‘poll’ about death threats which was clearly a dig at JKR. So it really wasn’t JKR who made this about trans rights. It was the trans rights lobby. I would imagine that’s what PE mean. Unfortunately some of the TRA lobby on Twitter seem to have interpreted it differently.

bellinisurge · 24/08/2022 13:58

Let them make the point. Although it's rather sloppy thinking on their part.

To say "what about death threats against JKR" is not transphobic. Unless you think that saying anything remotely supportive of JKR is transphobic. Which is sloppy thinking.

It's a bit disappointing that Private Eye has flopped into sloppy thinking on this but I suppose they can't be sharp and fearless about everything.

Banderita · 24/08/2022 13:53

It's not her fault that the Daily Mail take every tweet she makes or likes and use it to push their anti-trans agenda

The Daily Mail don't have an "anti-trans" agenda, they have a pro-women's rights agenda.

thekooples · 24/08/2022 13:51

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/08/2022 13:41

This DM article below specifically calls for an end to pacifism when dealing with TRAs in her name.

In what sense? You've obviously read the article. It looks to me as if it's about "the Culture Wars" in general.

It literally names trans rights in the next sentence.

IcakethereforeIam · 24/08/2022 13:42

KittyKlaws · 24/08/2022 12:36

I agree, I think this is the point being made. It's the new Godwin's law - perhaps we should name it?

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Made me think of carcinisation, tendancy of arthropods to evolve into crabs:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

Tracinisation?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/08/2022 13:41

This DM article below specifically calls for an end to pacifism when dealing with TRAs in her name.

In what sense? You've obviously read the article. It looks to me as if it's about "the Culture Wars" in general.

justasking111 · 24/08/2022 13:41

Throwing a spanner in the works the Jerusalem post

www.jpost.com/international/article-715333

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/08/2022 13:39

I'd take a bet someone would have had a pop at her if she hadn't said anything.

This.

JasmineIndigo · 24/08/2022 13:38

OP Private Eye is very good on calling out the absurdity of gender ideology, they have been supportive of JKR in the past. You have completely misunderstood 😳

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thekooples · 24/08/2022 13:37

ItsLateHumpty · 24/08/2022 13:29

I don’t agree that JKR made this attack about her at all. She expressed sympathy and outrage. The TRAs made it all about them. As per.

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It's like the pp said, the Daily Mail take everything she says and uses it to attack trans people.

This DM article below specifically calls for an end to pacifism when dealing with TRAs in her name.

Private Eye has a dig at JK Rowling over Salman Rushdie attack
ErrolTheDragon · 24/08/2022 13:31

I don’t agree that JKR made this attack about her at all. She expressed sympathy and outrage. The TRAs made it all about them. As per.

I'd take a bet someone would have had a pop at her if she hadn't said anything.

ItsLateHumpty · 24/08/2022 13:29

deezaknutz · 24/08/2022 12:23

This, she turned it into a JKR issue and then the Daily Mail made it into a trans issue.

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I don’t agree that JKR made this attack about her at all. She expressed sympathy and outrage. The TRAs made it all about them. As per.

viques · 24/08/2022 13:18

DifficultBloodyWoman · 24/08/2022 12:12

I don’t think that is a pop at JKR.

I see it as a commentary of how absolutely everything is turned into a poor, marginalized trans people argument.

This.

placemats · 24/08/2022 13:15

It's exactly the opposite.

Bernadinetta · 24/08/2022 13:10

It’s the opposite to how you’ve read it, OP.

Tillitscool · 24/08/2022 13:05

deezaknutz · 24/08/2022 12:23

This, she turned it into a JKR issue and then the Daily Mail made it into a trans issue.

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It's not her fault that the Daily Mail take every tweet she makes or likes and use it to push their anti-trans agenda

KittyKlaws · 24/08/2022 12:36

DifficultBloodyWoman · 24/08/2022 12:12

I don’t think that is a pop at JKR.

I see it as a commentary of how absolutely everything is turned into a poor, marginalized trans people argument.

I agree, I think this is the point being made. It's the new Godwin's law - perhaps we should name it?

nauticant · 24/08/2022 12:32

What happened is that JKR made a statement that was nothing to do with trans and trans activists denounced her saying anything at all "because she is a transphobe who needs to be silenced, whatever it is she said".

Since the attack on Salman Rushdie was about free speech, who do you think is more aligned with that, JKR or the trans activists, and who do you think is responsible for "making it all about trans"?

deezaknutz · 24/08/2022 12:23

titchy · 24/08/2022 12:15

This! It wasn't JK that turned it into a trans issue!

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This, she turned it into a JKR issue and then the Daily Mail made it into a trans issue.