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JK Rowling sticking up for KJK

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Signalbox · 29/05/2023 20:47

As @ PatrickStrud has blocked me on here (we've never, to my knowledge, interacted on Twitter or anywhere else) I can't challenge him directly about the claim he published in iNews (see below) that a Let Women Speak event in Australia 'staged a mass Nazi salute'. This is a lie so brazen, so easily disprovable and so libellous, I'm amazed it was allowed it into print by a supposedly reputable news source.

For years now, women and gay people concerned about the erosion of their rights, the dismantling of safeguarding and the escalating threats and violence of trans activists have been called 'fascists' and 'Nazis' by people like Strudwick for holding what, until five minutes ago, were solidly left-wing/feminist political positions.

Nobody but useful idiots can be genuinely surprised that REAL fascists have spotted a glorious opportunity in trans activism. The homophobic, anti-feminist far-right has long held that the left is degenerate, foolish, immoral and authoritarian, and now they can point to the incoherent arguments of the gender ideologues, the bullying tactics of the no-platformers and the swarms of masked men threatening violence against women for wanting to retain single-sex spaces, and crow 'we told you so'.

Actual Nazis have turned up on the fringes of Let Women Speak events for exactly the same reason aggressive, narcissistic trans activists are there. These groups closely resemble each other. Both are rife with misogynistic opportunists who're using a clash of rights to push their own agendas, both are there in the hope of violence, and neither gives a damn about the women who're there to speak out in their own voices, about their own lives, on their own behalf. It's high time those peddling lies like Strudwick's are held accountable and I sincerely hope @ ThePosieParker takes action.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1663265027783049223

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1663265027783049223

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Signalbox · 29/05/2023 20:48

And this...

JK Rowling sticking up for KJK
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Signalbox · 29/05/2023 20:50

I wonder how long before they apologise?

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Soubriquet · 29/05/2023 20:51

Signalbox · 29/05/2023 20:50

I wonder how long before they apologise?

Apologise? Never. They are too self righteous to admit they made any sort of mistake

JKR is just 100% a class act. A wonderful woman to aspire to be

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PilatesAndPaddleboards · 29/05/2023 20:57

💜JKR.

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Hepwo · 29/05/2023 21:19

That's amazing.

Eat your words Strudwick.

I hope he's stupid enough to try to defend it.

But a retraction in that pathetic paper will do nicely.

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Littlesprouts · 29/05/2023 21:20

Even by the i's pitiful standards that was a shocking piece. As ever it is heartening to see JKR standing up.

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Helleofabore · 29/05/2023 21:32

Joanne Rowling is very inspirational. And I noticed that Doc Stock also defended Kellie Jay on this article too.

The man who was arrested that is supposedly a far right winger, was wearing trans flag colours and over mingling with the extreme trans activists yesterday. Therefore, the same ludicrous logic they and used constantly about these groups being part of Let Women Speak and guilt by association needs to be levied at trans rights groups, socialists and Antifa.

It was always ludicrous, every one who knew the background knew it was ludicrous but still they repeat the lie. Now it is time to shine the lie back, to show just how morally bereft the claims were originally.

Thank you Joanne. Thank you Kathleen. And thank you Kellie Jay Keen for all holding the line at baring the truth.

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PurpleBugz · 29/05/2023 21:34

I just read the article.

He also says: "Last week, bomb threats were made to several branches of the American retailer Target in Utah, in reaction to the store producing merchandise to celebrate LGBTQ pride."

Another lie. The bomb threats were from the TRA because target caved to the pressure to move/remove the pride stuff.

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FOJN · 29/05/2023 21:49

JKR has so much integrity I imagine she must sleep very well at night.

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Rightsraptor · 29/05/2023 22:00

Strudwick persistently conflated the UK and the US, which really pisses me off. We're two totally different societies, stop implying that stuff happening over there is happening here in the UK.

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Jellycats4life · 29/05/2023 22:02

I can’t WAIT to see what comes out of this. I really hope KJK takes JKR up on her offer.

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AlisonDonut · 29/05/2023 22:08

They are so used to lying...they just cannot stop themselves...even when the fucking evidence is available for anyone to see.

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TheBiologyStupid · 29/05/2023 22:28

Signalbox · 29/05/2023 20:48

And this...

Excellent to see such solidarity in action.

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ArabeIIaScott · 29/05/2023 23:12

Wow. That's amazing. Thank you, JKR, for your support for women. Truly inspirational.

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ArabeIIaScott · 29/05/2023 23:12

Soubriquet · 29/05/2023 20:51

Apologise? Never. They are too self righteous to admit they made any sort of mistake

JKR is just 100% a class act. A wonderful woman to aspire to be

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There's self righteous and there's libel, and expensive lawsuits. Grin

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raspberrywine · 29/05/2023 23:17

ArabeIIaScott · 29/05/2023 23:12

Wow. That's amazing. Thank you, JKR, for your support for women. Truly inspirational.

Wholeheartedly agree. JKR is a class act.

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dimorphism · 29/05/2023 23:19

Thank you JK Rowling, for your exceptional integrity, bravery and kindness to all women and children.

Maybe time for some more Harry Potter merchandise (goes to browse...).

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Datun · 29/05/2023 23:52

Jellycats4life · 29/05/2023 22:02

I can’t WAIT to see what comes out of this. I really hope KJK takes JKR up on her offer.

Me too. It must be tricky for KJK to pick which piece of libellous crap to respond to, if any. Asking for donations to a crowd funder might not sit right with her either. And, of course, there's no upper limit to all this shit. It just goes on and on.

But litigation absolutely does move the needle.

She may not want to be beholden to any one person either. Not that JKR would ever make it the least bit uncomfortable, I'm sure.

I really hope she does it tho. It will send a message that lying about women has consequences.

Paid for by an enthusiastic billionaire 😄

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eleanorwish · 30/05/2023 00:08
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Clymene · 30/05/2023 00:14

Beautiful JKR. Strudwick is an odious deeply misogynist man.

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Littlesprouts · 30/05/2023 00:23

eleanorwish · 30/05/2023 00:08

They've now deleted the libel

twitter.com/simonjedge/status/1663316991069810688?s=61&t=S2W30T58IFF6Drc0Bzagkw

Does the i flag up any such edits, as the Graun does? You'd think they'd have to.

That piece was full of so many bad faith arguments it's hard to know where to start. Women not knowing how much men hate them and all that...

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TheBiologyStupid · 30/05/2023 00:40

They don't seem to have added a note about the change to the article, which is not very transparent and certainly not good practice.

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Datun · 30/05/2023 00:42

eleanorwish · 30/05/2023 00:08

They've now deleted the libel

twitter.com/simonjedge/status/1663316991069810688?s=61&t=S2W30T58IFF6Drc0Bzagkw

Proof that they know it's a lie.

I'd deffo sue now.

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TheBiologyStupid · 30/05/2023 00:46

According to The Daily Mail, it was TRAs that sent the bomb threats to Target so there might be another libel for Strudwick to delete...

https://archive.ph/38BqN

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https://archive.ph/38BqN

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