You don’t think people should have the right to speak free from government interference? I very much disagree with her, but I don’t want to live under a fascist state that bans opposing opinions.
Zip2@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The sooner JK Rowling is charged with hate speech, the better. How the fuck has she been allowed to get away with it for so long I don’t know.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 days ago
III@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Free speech isn’t the same as freedom from consequences for that speech. Hate speech is regulated for a reason. Likening hate speech to an “opposing opinion” is outing your actual agenda here.
rah@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
charged with hate speech
I’m curious whether she has actually come out with any hate speech. Can you point to anything she’s said which is hate speech? By which I mean real hate speech and not just speech whose underlying motive you believe to be hate?
For example, this is hate speech:
“Illegal immigrants are lazy good-for-nothings and should all be deported.”
This is not hate speech:
“Illegal immigration is terrible and I wish the government would do something about it.”
fox@hexbear.net 2 days ago
The government is entirely on her side
Trae@lemmy.world 2 days ago
£,000,000,000
Thats how.
Emperor@feddit.uk 2 days ago
That’s not much.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It’s literally nothing.
DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Those in power agree with her
Truck_kun@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I think this is a good place to add context for those outside the UK that don’t pay attention to politics, especially foreign politics:
The UK is having elections on July 4th. The House of commons has… 650 seats, of which the Conservatives (Tories, equivalent UK version of US Rupublicans) have ~350 seats.
They are expected to literally lose hundreds of seats in this elections and fall out of power. Labour (UK equivalent of US Democrats) has not been as progressive as people expected/wanted, but they are expected to be the big winners. Hopefully the UKs situation improves from the past 14-15 years of the Tories rule… seems like they’ve gone scorched earth, and the UK is a shadow of what it was even a decade ago.
Those same whiners in power, are about to experience a near political power extinction event.
DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Lmmfao, ok, if we’re going for context, you’ve managed to conveniently leave out that Starmer, the current Labour leader has not only publicly declared transphobic shit like men = penis woman = vagina, but is now also taking advice from Joanne herself, after she called him out for not being a tef, and he willingly obliged to prove her wrong.
The idea that only Tories are responsible for the institutionalised transphobia in this country, and that blue Labour is going to do anything but continue toeing exactly the same line, is not only laughable, but glaringly and wilfully ignorant.
Truck_kun@beehaw.org 1 day ago
My reply said nothing about only Tories being solely responsible, only that they have been primarily in charge/in power for the last 14 years and are about to take a major fall from power in the upcoming election this week.
I didn’t praise Labour, merely said they will be the primary benefactor of the change in power, and that they are the UK equivalent of Democrats in the US (a simplified comparison for a non-UK audience, that happens across this thread); which isn’t untrue in general, even with your above complaints.
This is indeed a UK thread, but JK and Tennant are world renowned, and having them both in the title will draw in a larger audience.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I think it’s simpler. Those who are in power to dull with it to really do not care and do not really consider this to be an issue. It’s not so much that they agree or disagree with her, it’s more that they just don’t care
I’m not sure that’s actually better really but isn’t any important distinction.
DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
If you think those in power in the UK, widely known as TERF island, aren’t deliberately and actively trying to harm trans people (among others), you’ve not been paying attention,.
rah@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Curious who’s trying to harm trans people and what they’ve done?
rah@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Alexa, order a proof reader.