JK Rowling trending again

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JK Rowling is trending again because apparently she’s liked a problematic tweet. I have no idea what it means - can anyone explain? Tweet should be attached here.

I can’t see JKR liking or supporting a racist account…what’s going on?

She was probably dancing with the devil and giving suck to her familiar again. Bloody woman.

Yawn, the Twitter Like Police are so tedious.

Libs of TikTok is an account which mocks the stupid things genderists say on TikTok. It is run by a conservative. In the bizarro world of American online politics, you are not allowed to follow or like anything a conservative does or says. If you do, you are worse than Hitler.

Hurrah TheHarpySings, I’m so pleased you’re here, maybe you can tell me
a) have you read JKR’s essay
b) what about it is problematic? Quotes please, not misquoted, not taken out of context
You’d be a winner, nobody has managed this challenge so far!

@waterwitch It was a joke!

Pretty sure that post was sarcastic.

😂
so desperate to find someone who can back it up - missed the tone!

It might have been trending, but it isn't now. Twitter is just such an odd site and people behave in ways they would never dare to in face to face communication. Trawling through someone's "likes" to screenshot something to generate outrage is a weird way for someone to spend their time.

Most people seem to confuse the 'For you' page with the 'Trending' page, GC/trans stuff rarely trends properly.

Ok…so this libs of tiktok thing isn’t so awful? I can’t make head nor tail of it, but I’m glad JKR isn’t supporting anything problematic (not that liking something on Twitter is a huge deal, I suppose).

Helen Joyce appearing on GB news had me worried too - I have huge respect for her but to speak on a channel that’s so right wing (Nigel farrage - ugh!) gives me me a twitchy feeling

I dunno, I’m starting to believe Nigel Garage’s ‘talking pints’ segment was a work of post modernist genius in the vein of Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank

@BernardBlacksMolluscs 😁

Not sure I understand the tweet but, to be fair to Helen Joyce, if the Guardian or the BBC ever decided to take up journalism, I'm sure she would accept their invitations and be just as factual, well informed and balanced as she is everywhere else.

Helen Joyce does not consider herself left wing. She's a former editor at the Spectator.

GB News actually has more balanced commentary than most main stream news.

The day the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky etc give an equal platform to GC women, the day you can ask them why they should bother with GB News. Alternatively, you can think about the people that might gravitate towards GB News and think about how they are being educated on GC fight back by intelligent, driven women; and thank goodness some GC women aren't just content to speak into an echo chamber, and are brave enough and open enough to bring new people into the GC movement who might otherwise be put off thinking it is just another woke, minority cause.

Do rightwing wing women not get raped? Are only leftwing men predators?

Women's rights aren't party political, they are a universal concern. The damage that self-id laws and policies are causing to women and children continues to be denied by almost all mainstream leftwing parties and journalistic outlets. Instead of discussing the issue with us, they denigrate us. But we need to bring this out into the open and if that means using perfectly lawful rightwing outlets, then that's what we'll do. And even as a lifelong and very leftwing woman I will never feel ashamed of using whatever lawful means I can to defend women’s and children's rights in this way.

Even if you aim to be politically pure btw, purity spirals wind so fast and high these days, you'll fall afoul of the wrong people and views lightning fast and almost always without warning. So I'd rather be a realist, working within the law with anyone who will defend women's rights by democratic, peaceful means. (Rightwing or leftwing is not where I draw the line. Violence and illegality is.)

Yup

I’d much rather my parents in law were watching Helen Joyce speaking sense than some of the more odious presenters they have on GBN. Flood the channel with gender critical feminists, that’s what I say!

Is Andrew Doyle 'so right wing'?

Or is GB News a service that pulls talent from a wide range of political beliefs?

LOTT is awful, amongst other things they are responsible for Boston Children's Hospital receiving multiple bomb threats after highlighting them repeatedly on their twitter account.

Oh LOTT made the bomb threats then?

Oh I see, we are at that point Bernard. That a woman is responsible to highlighting issues and then she is to blame for the vile acts that people who have no impulse control carry out.

It is really very apparent that women should just always STFU. Just in case someone takes an expose as an invitation for committing violence....

LOTT is awful, amongst other things they are responsible for Boston Children's Hospital receiving multiple bomb threats after highlighting them repeatedly on their twitter account.

Do you actually think it’s fair and reasonable to blame LOTT for bomb threats because she quoted the words on a hospital’s website?

By the same logic, 100% of the TRAs on Twitter are responsible for bomb threats, violence, rape and sexual abuse.

Interesting that no-one here has condemned the bomb threats so far.

Bomb threats are bad, apparently the aptly named “anybodyinthere” thinks that’s somehow debatable. Most of us don’t think it’s up for discussion.

I condemn bomb threats. There, happy?

Now do you condemn a hospital that advocates carving the tits off adolescent girls?

I'm not sure why people have a problem with LOTT. All they do is repost content that's already freely accessible online. I would think the problem is actually the people creating the batshit content. As for LOTT being responsible for the hospital receiving bomb threats, no. The people responsible for the threats are the ones making the threats.

If it needs saying, I condemn any and all bomb threats.