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submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] computerscientistI@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

Why should Rogan and Musk be concerned about a law in Scotland? I can't be botheres to look up if Rowling lives in Scotland, but she's at least on the same island.At the minimum Rogan and Musk should mind their own business. As a German I also don't judge US gub laws, for example. None of my business.

[-] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

They are paid to stir up shit. So they did.

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[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago

It's interesting to see her timeline is full of Trump hate considering how much she hates LGBTQ

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[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Hilariously Harry Potters world does have hate crime laws, its like a fifth of the book series.

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[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

JKR actually lives there, the other two are just hate-signalling in their culture war and should mind their fucking business.

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Three dumbasses think alike.

A lot of astroturfing bots are also really mad about it as you can see with the tens of "I'm going to use this to report Humza Yousaf for anti-white racism" highest top-level comments you can see in UK subreddits right now.

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