Rachel Riley stands up for JKR. Predictable abuse on Twitter

[Clymene]

Interview in todays Sunday Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ecb193b2-cb8e-11ec-8423-5db7bbe7a364?shareToken=31b9fc35227f1ff01a27fb51af5ada666_

Ben Cohen has told her she's wrong. She's told him she doesn't care what he thinks.

Didn’t a certain Joe 90 lookalike and non practicing Doctor make a similar comparison?

I think you're right @Deliriumoftheendless

And what's happened to Harrop since he had his medical licence suspended? He's gone awfully quiet

In The Independent Rachael is saying that JK Rowling is being attacked because she defended Jews.

So she's saying that JKR isn't being attacked by TRA's but by anti-semites?

I'm confused.

I think she's saying that on the Venn diagram of Lefty Anti-Semite and Lefty TRAs, there is a significant overlap, and therefore JKR has had double the target on her back.

Didn’t a certain Joe 90 lookalike and non practicing Doctor make a similar comparison?

Yes, thanks, I think that it was him. I thought someone had but couldn't recall the details.

I think a lot of people are using “trans rights” as a vehicle to express older grievances with greater impunity. Rosie Duffield says it’s the same people coming for her now as it was when she criticised anti-semitism in the Labour Party. Joanna Cherry gets abuse from a lot of the people who disagreed with her stance on Scottish independence (and I suspect this is the case forJKR too, although different people obviously) Graham Linehan says that the worst for him are those from an obsessive Chris Morris fandom that put a target on his back years ago (for what reason I don’t know!)

Rachel riley must be brave. My guess is she has read about this so is going in informed. Thay makes it less likely she'll back track. She obviously respects jkr and will have thought 'what's this about?' when it all kicked off. Plus she knows what online abuse is, has seen what jkr received for getting involved, so won't just be blundering in.

In her tweets since the article she is mainly standing up for Jkr's right to speak, and pointing out that the accounts who abused jkr for standing up against antisemitism are often the same ones who abuse her for her stance on womens rights.

But she also said, in a thread responding to India W:

"I think sometimes there is a conflict between women’s rights and trans rights, and there should room to discuss these things without being called a bigot, or without being called an extremist (for both sides)."

I completely agree with this.

I don't follow. Do you mean alot of glinner's work is recycled from dwindled and Chris Morris mentions it?

Not dwindled, Seinfeld! Really odd auto correct there.

Father Jack is plagiarisd from Seinfeld? Wow, who knew.

Comedy nerds don’t sound like much fun, actually.

Go Rachel!

Houseum

I suppose (and so am I tbh!)

I'm 99.9% sure that JKR has never been a Catholic, culturally or otherwise. I have read interviews where she's talked about having sometimes felt drawn towards Christianity despite not having been brought up with much religion, and that she is conscious of some Christian inspiration in her books. Sort of an ambivalent-to-fond cultural Christian, of the Protestant variety. Apologies if I am wrong there.

I do note, though, that TRAs seem quite happy to use Catholic as a term of abuse. I remember Dr Harrop or his buddy calling Caroline Farrow a "Catholic cunt". Not sure how this isn't immediately recognised as hate speech.