JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law. Here’s why.
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A legal shake-up aimed at protecting minorities angers high-profile opponents on freedom of speech grounds.

It was no April Fool’s joke.

Harry Potter author-turned culture warrior J.K. Rowling kicked off the month with an 11-tweet social media thread in which she argued 10 transgender women were men — and dared Scottish police to arrest her.

Rowling’s intervention came as a controversial new Scottish government law, aimed at protecting minority groups from hate crimes, took effect. And it landed amid a fierce debate over both the legal status of transgender people in Scotland and over what actually constitutes a hate crime.

Already the law has generated far more international buzz than is normal for legislation passed by a small nation’s devolved parliament.

    • Tyfud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’m sorry. The hate train? The hate train???

      Are you trying to use a mirroring technique to try and manipulate me or other readers with some cheap psychological trick, or did you just sort of stumble into those words like you stumbled into this thread?

      The purpose of the law is to protect people who are actually receiving hate trains. Like the kind that fucking kill them. Every fucking day.

      Remind me again how many self absorbed narcissistic Billionaires die a day due to hate trains?

      What’s that fucking number again?

      Zero?

      Yeah. That’s what I thought.

      Fuck off with your nonsense cheap psych101 shit trying to make, literally the most powerful people in the world, into victims, while the real victims: trans people, are actually getting murdered, and beaten, and raped, and tortured.

      But, fuck do go on. Really.

      Tell me how much these billionaires are suffering because they can’t turn their massive insecurities into dog whistling hate speech that ends with innocent people dying.

      I’d hate to upset their mamosa mornings on their private fucking yatch you absolute waste of space in a human skin.

      Get the fuck on the right side of history and stop sucking the dicks of the oligarchs that have never, and will never give a shit about you or anything you care about.

      • Woht24@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Fuck man, you need a doctor stat.

        I don’t like billionaires, I don’t give a fuck about them. I like logic. You don’t have much of it.

        Good luck.

        • Tyfud@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Your link didn’t work. I can’t even register on kbin because the captcha doesn’t work in FF. Maybe you could SS it and post here or something.

          I do not have the context you’re implying I should have read to hear the side you’re arguing for.

          I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and read it if you’ve got something that might change my views. I’m not trying to be ignorant or illogical.

          I’m sure there are legitimate criticisms of the law as it was written, but that’s true of most laws. We never get them right, especially out of the gate, but at least the attempt is being made.

          My issues are with the “clout” those 3 billionaires have and how they’re influencing their followers to believe in dangerous and hateful logic that hurts trans people at the end of the day while they sit in their ivory towers, safe from all the problems they’re causing for us little people.