Why we must all stand with JK Rowling

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I think free speech topics probably deserve their own thread.  For those that are so afraid of Trump and the circus the Biden DoJ and their Democrat allies have created by prosecuting their political rival, I guess you are fine with this.  Heck, even RFK Jr. sees the greater threat, but of course there are those that are so easily gaslighted by the MSM and the Democrats they cannot think for themselves.

 

Why we must all stand with JK Rowling

 

In Humza Yousaf’s Scotland, expressing the truth about biological sex can now constitute a criminal offence. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 makes it illegal to ‘stir up hatred’ against certain protected groups, including transgender people. This is punishable by up to seven years in prison. Of course, to any sane observer, Rowling’s views are not hateful but factual – and she has expressed them in a reasonable manner, too. But in the upside-down world of trans activists, any suggestion that transwomen are not real women is considered an unutterable heresy. And it is clear that these activists have the ear of the Scottish authorities.

 

Supporters of the law are currently mounting a desperate attempt to downplay its worst excesses. They say ‘misgendering’, for instance, isn’t explicitly criminalised by the Hate Crime Act and that gender-critical feminists need to calm down. But that term, ‘explicitly’, is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. It’s entirely conceivable that police, prosecutors and judges will go after those who refuse to toe the line on gender ideology. Not only have police and prosecutors in the UK already hauled people into court for ‘misgendering’, under existing laws, but Scottish police and politicians have gone out of their way to suggest things like ‘misgendering’ will be covered by the new law. Even if misgendering is not explicitly criminalised, this will not stop women from having their collars felt for doing little more than speaking the truth. Even if they are eventually spared a conviction, the process would be the punishment.

 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/02/why-we-must-all-stand-with-jk-rowling/

 

 

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

[TBoneTX 45,251]

When people fear the government, it's tyranny.

When the government fears the people, it's freedom.

[TBoneTX 45,251]

This is a very pointed, nicely argued piece.  Comments?

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The Cultural Elite Is More Absurd Than Ever

 

If there is one thing you can be certain of when dealing with alphabet activists it will be that they are utterly unconcerned with offending you.

 

By this I don't mean something as simple as some people being put off by the idea of others having different lifestyles.  I am referring to the IN YOUR FACE YOU MUST EMBRACE MY MENTAL ILLNESS AS I SHOUT AT YOU offensiveness.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/08/the-cultural-elite-is-more-absurd-than-ever-n3786093