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Tell me again how JKR is the baddie?

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DumbassHamsterSitterPerson · 23/08/2024 16:35

Just saw this on threads. How is it ok. To wish someone dead? How is that being on "the right side of history"?
I disagree with lots of people on various things. I've never thought "I'd rather hear s/he is dead"

Tell me again how JKR is the baddie?
Tell me again how JKR is the baddie?
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Omlettes · 23/08/2024 18:26

I hazzard a guess that a large percentage of her trolls are American, and all that entails.
We are definitely dumbing down as a species at an alarming rate. Look beyond just our education systems, to our diet and the poisons in the air soil and water. If our brains are clogged with microplastics, our blood our guts, and we are under assault from forever chemicals, how can anything work properly.

In the 70s and 80s we finally recognised what lead was doing to our brains and nervous systems after millenia.
We are an unthinking species for all our smarts.
This insanity is all of a whole.
If we compartementalise we will never get to the root of any social ill. And that includes violence.

WhereYouLeftIt · 23/08/2024 18:10

wrongthinker · 23/08/2024 17:47

I saw something on facebook calling for everyone to unfollow pink news because of their transphobia! They've surely not come out in defence of JKR?

Never! No, a whistleblower within PrickNews put out a recording of Cohen talking about PrickNews, and it hasn't gone down well at all.

from https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/audio-leaks-from-pinknews-ceo

"In this most recent audio recording shared by whistleblowers, Cohen said that “things that relate to trans and non-binary [sic] remain incredibly contentious,” and that “there is significant brand and partner nervousness around that topic.”

“It’s the role of others … to change the narrative,” Cohen said regarding PinkNews’ responsibility to the trans community. “If we start doing too many things, I think it will harm the conversations with advertisers … what we are is an entertainment content powerhouse, we don’t want to be positioning ourselves as some sort of charity.”"

I read that as meaning that advertisers are wishing to access the 'Pink Pound' - the allegedly greater disposable income of gay men - and have cottoned on that the trans-identified are either poor or saving up for surgery or otherwise not a profitable niche to be advertising to - so Cohen is under some pressure to make PrickNews appeal more to gay men and less to the trans-identified.

Naturally the trans-identified are outraged, hence the calls to unfollow.

I'm not sure what tickles me more from that recording - Cohen's belief that PrickNews is "an entertainment content powerhouse", or that he equates serving the trans-identified readers as charitable work.Grin

Alleged Audio Leaks from PinkNews CEO — Assigned

A Twitter account dedicated to sharing the unflattering stories of people who claim to have worked for PinkNews released alleged audio recordings of CEO Benjamin Cohen that are, to say the least, troubling!

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/audio-leaks-from-pinknews-ceo

Omlettes · 23/08/2024 18:08

The relative thing to do in this scenario is report the tweets to the police. There is a dedicated line.

annejumps · 23/08/2024 18:07

wrongthinker · 23/08/2024 17:47

I saw something on facebook calling for everyone to unfollow pink news because of their transphobia! They've surely not come out in defence of JKR?

My understanding is that PinkNews is looking to not report on trans issues so often going forward. God forbid

wrongthinker · 23/08/2024 17:59

UtopiaPlanitia · 23/08/2024 17:51

Brilliant, thanks!

ErrolTheDragon · 23/08/2024 17:55

These people are evidently living in a sort of mirror universe in which reality and normal standards of civil communication don't exist.

AlisonDonut · 23/08/2024 17:53

wrongthinker · 23/08/2024 17:47

I saw something on facebook calling for everyone to unfollow pink news because of their transphobia! They've surely not come out in defence of JKR?

No, it would seem their advertisers want them to drop the T obsession.

wrongthinker · 23/08/2024 17:47

I saw something on facebook calling for everyone to unfollow pink news because of their transphobia! They've surely not come out in defence of JKR?

SoloSofa24 · 23/08/2024 17:42

JKR is back on twitter today, retweeting about the Giggle case and tweeting about the Khelif case - definitely not scared off. No past tweets deleted, as far as I can see, no matter what the TRAs would like to think. I presume she has just been on holiday.

Igmum · 23/08/2024 17:31

Well here's hoping she's healthy, happy, having a fabulous holiday and will return invigorated, refreshed and full of good GC energy.

IwantToRetire · 23/08/2024 17:14

Just another example of how being on twitter is just a complete waste of time.

Why put any mental energy responding to people who think it is okay to post stuff like this.

IMO!

RufustheFactualReindeer · 23/08/2024 17:04

I know the death threats are despicable, but honestly the lies and delusion are something else

what is wrong with these people?

apart from the obvious…

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