JKR vs IW

[ZeldaFighter]

Are we going to talk about this? I think JKR was feeling a bit grumpy today 😀

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-india-willoughby-twitter-gender-b2507309.html

I am a bit worried that "naice" people will think JKR is being horrid.

we now hear word of a Canadian proposal to impose house arrest on someone who is believed likely to commit a hate crime in the future – even if they have not done so already.

You'd think by now a friend would have prised their phone and computer out of their hands, unplugged their wifi and taken them out for a break from all this.

@Froodwithatowel you're presuming that whoever you're referring to here actually has a friend.

I wonder if, for someone whose career has been quietly sliding into obscurity, this is a way to keep relevant.

But you need a genuine friend who cares for your welfare to do such a thing Frood. A friend who cares enough to tell you that you need to step away and give it a rest.

IW's so called friends seem to just want to encourage IW on to total implosion.

I'd be seriously concerned for a friend's mental heath and well being if I saw such constant, obsessive, vitriolic, behaviour.

I'm waiting for the IW see what you made me do event as IW escalates.

IW is a very troubled individual imo.

And this.

Minority Report is happening in this world, in our time.

Just because it's 40 years beyond 1984 doesn't mean it isn't now and won't always be 1984.

Rainbow - they were very near it with the proposed Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill.

https://reason.com/volokh/2020/10/29/conversations-over-the-dinner-table-that-incite-hatred-must-be-prosecuted-the-justice-secretary-has-said/

https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/bills/hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-bill

I agree.

I never believed it and was shocked when it turned out to be a Real Place

I'm amazed he didn't lose the will after that encounter.

That male pattern baldness at the temples is a dead give-away, IMO.

'the will to live'

I can't edit posts.

IIRC it wa the TRAs themselves who originally used the word "transwoman" ("It's yer actual Latin! It's. prefix!! Transalpine Gaul!!! Educate yourselves!!!! BIGOTS!!!!!*), .. . then it cunningly morphed from a prefix to a faux-adjective - and because it's an "adjective" it describes the noun "woman" doesn't it? Just like "black" or "tall" or "French" or "red-haired" does. Except of course, it doesn't. It "describes" a MAN.

*(And that makes YOU "cis" whether you like it or not! TRANSPHOBES!!!!!")

What? Nothing makes me "cis". Last time I came across cis and trans was when I learned A Level chemistry. They're called Z and W now.

Oh FUCK!

This is really happening, isn't it? 😧

Excuse me!

What about "xe:, "fae", "per", "meow", etc?

😠

Moi aussi.

IW probably wanted this for JKR. Funny how extreme left wing Canada has become

They can stuff all of those back where they came from!
😄

My cat says he is literally physically sick at the thought of someone taking his meow and using it to describe their genital belongings.

Quite right.

Species appropriation.

He has every right to be annoyed about it

E and Z

Entgegen and Zusammen

However, we do still use cis and trans, probably more commonly than E Z isomerisation.

In relation to this part of the Act?

The government plans to add online hate speech as a form of discrimination under the law and allow people to file complaints against individuals posting such content to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
It would also make changes to the Criminal Code, including by increasing the maximum punishment for four hate propaganda offences.
For example, someone found guilty of advocating genocide could face life imprisonment, up from five years in prison.
The government is also looking to create a new hate crime offence that could be applied to every other offence, instead of only listing it as an aggravating factor during sentencing.

So an Act largely designed to target social media platforms has snuck this in with it. Proving that the political left can be as authoritarian as the political right…

the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Who let Yaniv persecute self employed WOC in a stupid trumped up process that made a laughing stock of them and the country around the world.

The Scottish Hate Crime bill is imminent.