J.K. Rowling Returns To Global Spotlight After Alleging She'd Received Death Threats From Trans Activists
After removing herself from the limelight following several controversies surrounding her stance on trans issues Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling once again attracted Twitter's attention after alleging she'd received "hundreds" of trans activists "have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb" her.
The claim started when she screenshot a tweet from a user who wrote "I wish you a very pipebomb in your mailbox" to her.
"To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go," wrote Rowling. When a user asked what the tweet was in reference to, she sarcastically said, "Yes, but now hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me I’ve realised that this movement poses no risk to women whatsoever."
The tweets split users on Rowling's accusations. Some were appalled at what Rowling claimed to have received:
A large number of Twitter users argued that what Rowling claimed was false equivalence, arguing that advocating against trans people with her platform was far more harmful than the backlash she'd received.
After her brief foray back onto Twitter to stir the pot, Rowling returned to writing her crime novel.
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Kenetic Kups
"Muh death threats"
every single time someone needs attention
KoimanZX
I personally would like to see the material evidence before making a judgement. Of course, since I am not in law enforcement, I am not required to take every threat of violence toward celebrities whom I do not care that much about seriously. That being said, it would be no shock if she were telling the truth.
Peanut970
Twitter and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Shui
I legit think the site got like 20x worse after Tumblr banned porn and most of their crowd migrated to Twitter.
Zigzagoon
There's a (very dangerous) double standard here.
If there's someone right leaning who makes dangerous death threats, they're going to be put out there for what they are: dangerous, extremist, should be deplatformed. but when someone left leaning or trans does it? "no, you see how many trans people are killed on the streets? you see how many trans people get death threats each day?"
and then this type of stuff just fuels terf's preconceptions that trans people (specifically trans woman) are violent.
honestly, typing this out distresses me. maybe logically i shouldn't since i haven't been in the right mindset recently but i just need to get this out there.
Shui
This is something that unfortunately happens all too frequently. I've seen many "allies" of LGBT say "it's fine to group and condemn an entire group of people because LGBT is oppressed" when in actuality, it just makes you come off as someone who just hates people who aren't LGBT at all, regardless if you actually mean it.
Shui
Leave it to Twitter to turn what should be a two-way argument into a three-way mess.
If you actually think the other party deserves death threats just because of injustices that happen to your people (regardless of whether or not they actually DIRECTLY did it), you're actually just fucking insane.
SSmotzer
How centrist of you.
A group of people is advocating we dismantle another group of people based on the circumstances of their birth. There is no middle ground here.
If someone supports racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. you deserve the hate they get. Cause if the people they support come into power people will die.
Shui
Okay, glad we're attaching labels here, but hear me out.
Giving others the impression that you're a bunch of bloodthirsty rebels does not help your cause in the slightest, and will only further increase the pushback against what you're fighting for. It's one thing to criticize, but another to threaten to send a fucking pipe bomb to someone's house.
SSmotzer
What? Do you think Civil Rights are won through peaceful protesting, compromises, and optimistic speeches?
Sometimes when someone is threatening you based on how you were born, the best thing to do is match violence for violence. Cause history has shown that violence, be it against the Confederacy, the Nazis, or the KKK, has made way for progress, and it's moderate centrists who are the ones hold back progress by saying we shouldn't resort to their level to beat them.
"I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." – MLK
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RagingGhost
Can we apply the eight deadly words to both sides?
Alex Reynard
The eight deadly words?
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…you mean ecky ecky ecky ecky pikang zoop boing goodemzuowlyzhiv?