JKR receiving death threats for supporting Salman Rushdie

[WandaWomblesaurus]

news.sky.com/story/jk-rowling-working-with-police-over-death-threat-after-voicing-support-for-salman-rushdie-12672229

How fucking predictable.

This is sad. Funny how the world went from loving and adoring her to completely turning their backs on her seemingly overnight. Now she is public enemy number 1.

It's not "the world" by any means. It's people who spend too much time and put too much importance on twitter.

I noticed recently JH also began using a ‘they’ pronoun in her bio.

*their bio………

It’s a she/they, which I don’t get at all. How can it be so important, but not important?

I dunno, surely her bio is fine? She is a she/they and I would like to take this opportunity to ask if anybody can tell me just how she/they works. Do you take turns in referring to her/them as her/their?

God knows, honestly. 🤷‍♀️

Covering both bases. Not too privileged, not too boring. Just a little bit special.

It’s a little bit sad. Kids have such an influence over people.

Article in the Times. JK Rowling speaks re Society of Authors.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c09c221e-1cde-11ed-b7c3-8b288ab55a56?shareToken=1fb573f14cb0b84bbd301d5a898a9ffa

"In a statement to The Times, Rowling said she had received no messages of support from Harris. “I was startled to read this,” she said, “as I’ve received no communication whatsoever from Harris expressing sympathy for the death and rape threats I’ve received.”

Mentions Rachel Rooney as well. I am so pleased seeing this in The Times. The treatment of Rachel has been one very upsetting aspect of all this.

Harris has published another disingenuous thread on Twitter. She is explaining how the SoA tried to help two writers who were ‘cancelled’, and therefore (she thinks) defending herself. But she misses out the fact that she defended the process of cancellation itself, didn’t she? She said cancellation isn’t bad, that we cancel things ‘we no longer want’. Like people.

She can’t help digging herself deeper can she? What exactly has she done for authors in the position? Women authors have been hounded (some have left the industry) on her watch. And she had said nothing - well actually ‘haha witch’ is closer to what she did say.

I was not familiar with Rachel Rooney's story. Horrendous. I'm now minded to go buy some of her books, not least because they look great.

‘And she had said nothing - well actually ‘haha witch’ is closer to what she did say.’

It is. Whatever has been done to help those victims of industry ‘cancellation’ was in spite of her public pronouncements. She should probably resign.

Where was she /SoA when the industry was busy circulating ban lists?

"Bragging rights" that you got the 'employer' to pay the contracted wages when the 'employee' was sacked is not a winning endorsement is it.

Rachel Rooney was treated appallingly, subjected to bullying by other children's authors. Here is the full text of My Body Is Me, so you can see what a lovely and positive message it has for children:

twitter.com/rooneyrachel/status/1462341653872754691?lang=en-GB

If you want to see what someone is like, look at the people defending them. Cough cough Jo Grady.

@SolasAnla

Yes, didn’t someone circulate actual publishing blacklists? Harris said nothing.

She says, ‘But just because I won't take your side, or join your hashtag, or be in your gang, doesn't mean your rights won't be fought for as fiercely as anyone else's...’

It really does mean that. Harris didn’t fight for Rowling’s rights to free speech. She threw her under the bus and supported her ‘cancellation’. She is giving off strong revisionist vibes this morning.

She is daft enough to think that people don’t remember or have the screenshots?

she is going lower in my estimation by the day. And that’s saying something!

Siri, show me a post that is going to come back and haunt the poster.

It was two days ago that she said, “People need to stop equating criticism of someone’s work with a crime.”

She was talking about Rowling, I think, and trying to open up a space between ‘criticism’ and a violent crime. And that’s true - criticism isn’t criminal, it is free speech. But what has been happening to Rowling for two years isn’t criticism, it’s threats of violence and hounding, and there is no way she would say that was acceptable if it happened to her trans child, or someone she agreed with. She would (and rightly) say it was an abhorrent state of affairs.

I'm not like those ordinary women.

There were a number of them.

Then the one where a competition winner who was edited out of the list, agents, publishers etc all celebrated that bit of racist anti-womaning, not a peep from the SoA on that abuse of economic power either.

A Unions job is to make public noise so that the 'employer' is balancing decisions by looking at reputation risk harming their profit margin. Saying we got them to stick to the contract but chose not make our win public is an odd strategic decision for a workers collective to make.

Of course they just did the bare minimum that was legally enforceable. But if you take a different group they wish to represent, they will do far more for them, won’t they? They pick and choose and call it impartiality.