WOKE JK Rowling could be investigated and arrested by Scottish authorities for "misgendering" people.

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Collin Rugg
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NEW: Author JK Rowling could be investigated and arrested by Scottish authorities for "misgendering" people.

Scotland has introduced a new Hate Crime & Public Order Act where calling someone a "he" even if they're a biological male could be a criminal offense.

Rowling is now taunting authorities to arrest her as she refuses to back down on her opinions on transgenderism.

"I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offense under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment."

The maximum penalty under the new act is 7 years in jail.

Absolutely insane.
 
TheSearcher

TheSearcher

Are you sure about that?
She is what one might call a "social" leftist. Trends matter to them, and they cultivate a veneer of sympathy with others they believe are somehow mistreated. She's also a self-made businesswoman with advanced degrees in hard knocks, which means she does have reality-guided boundaries.

We are watching her bubble getting burst in realtime.
 
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Old Gray Mare

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From OP: "NEW: Author JK Rowling could be investigated and arrested by Scottish authorities for "misgendering" people.".

IMHO they don't dare. She's too high profile, way too popular, with many followers from multiple generations watching her. I hope they do push it. HARD! The push back could be spectacular.
 
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Plain Jane

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There is an update.

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The Rules For The Rich And Famous

So here’s a thing. But that’s not how the Hate Crime Act is supposed to work.
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But that’s not how the Hate Crime Act is supposed to work.

For the avoidance of doubt, Wings does not believe that either JK Rowling or the First Minister has committed a hate crime. But the recording of a hate incident isn’t even meant to be the police’s decision to make.

According to Police Scotland’s official Hate Crime National Guidance, if someone’s actions are assessed not to be a crime, but the victim perceives them to be hate-motivated, the incident WILL be recorded as a non-crime hate incident.

There’s no wiggle room at all. No evidence is required other than the complainer’s perception. It’s one of the few aspects of the law that is clear and unambiguous. Even as we write these words, the Police Scotland website remains steadfastly unequivocal on the subject:

Yet despite being the subjects of the most complaints in the first day of the law, that rule is NOT being applied to either Yousaf or Rowling, with no explanation offered.

And arguably even worse, it’s being applied to opposition politicians but not to those in the government, which is pure banana-republic stuff. Somehow, incredibly, the SNP have just contrived to hand the moral high ground to MURDO FRASER.

Not even three days old, the Hate Crime Act now lies in absolute tatters. The minister responsible doesn’t have a clue what the Act actually says, spraying misinformation about it across the media every time she speaks.

In less than one minute of a single interview on Sky News today, the wincingly glaikit Siobhian Brown made THREE embarrassingly fundamental errors about the law.

The law in fact requires only that behaviour be threatening OR abusive (NOT both), it requires hatred to be stirred up against a protected group (NOT an individual), and it does NOT give any protection to comments made privately in your home.

So perhaps it’s not surprising that Police Scotland don’t appear to be applying the law properly, if even the minister in charge of it hasn’t the first idea what it says.

But we’re now in a situation where either the law is going to be applied differently to rich and famous people than to the rest of us, or it simply can’t be applied to anyone.

On top of all the other huge issues with it, it’s difficult to see how this burning, crippled, bullet-riddled radioactive shambles of an act can limp on even as far as the end of the week without detonating whatever tiny shards of remaining credibility this wretchedly incompetent impersonation of a government has left and scattering them to the wind.
 
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Johnny Twoguns

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The more 'they' go after famous, and well loved, or liked, people, the deeper the holes they dig for themselves, and the sooner the holes get filled.

All they are really doing is waking up billions around the world, and pissing off tens of millions.

Money changers always over play the hands they set up with marked decks.
 
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KFhunter

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I might have to disavow my Scottish ancestry at this rate, bunch of pussies they’ve turned into.

But I guess we’ve done they same now haven’t we?
 
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Old Gray Mare

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Wondering how long before gender transition treatment is relegated to the dustbin of medicine like blood letting and foul humors causing illness?
 
Dennis Olson

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Plain Jane

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Police Scotland Deluged With Nearly 4,000 Complaints As New Hate Crime Law Is Weaponized | ZeroHedge

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Police Scotland Deluged With Nearly 4,000 Complaints As New Hate Crime Law Is Weaponized​


BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, APR 04, 2024 - 03:30 AM
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news,
As predicted, Police Scotland was deluged with nearly 4,000 complaints in the first day alone after the passage of an absurd new hate crime law, proving the legislation is being weaponized by activists.


Under the new legislation, anyone deemed to have been verbally ‘abusive’, in person or online, to a transgender person, including “insulting” them could be hit with a prison sentence of up to seven years.

Transgender activists have been busy making lists of people they are waiting on to make such comments, including Harry Potter author JK Rowling herself.

Although it was announced yesterday by police that Rowling wouldn’t be investigated, the mere fact that she has been reported could create a ‘hate incident’ file on her that will remain in perpetuity.



“Calum Steele, the former general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, said he understood that around 3,800 cases had been lodged over the previous 24 hours,” reports the Telegraph.

That figure is likely to now be almost doubled as deranged shitlibs feverishly report anything they deem offensive via an online form and a 101 non-emergency number.

Authorities are now being swamped with vexatious complaints exactly as the legislation’s critics predicted, with resources that would have been available to tackle real crime directed elsewhere to patrol speech.

Indeed, as we previously highlighted, Police Scotland admitted that the new law could create “additional demand”and create a “resource implication” for police.

This followed a trial of a separate program set to be implemented across the country to stop investigating crimes like theft and criminal damage, which authorities acknowledge will help criminals.

When it was put to her that she wasn’t at risk due to her profile, Rowling responded that she would defend anyone who was targeted.


“If they go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I’ll repeat that woman’s words and they can charge us both at once,” said the author.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1775190408110264673
View: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1775190408110264673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1775190408110264673%7Ctwgr%5Ed2ddda4697c77f292b35aa4908968b3e940f0c10%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fpolice-scotland-deluged-nearly-4000-complaints-new-hate-crime-law-weaponized


As we highlighted yesterday, odious Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, who seemingly has a problem with there being a lot of white people in Scotland, ludicrously asserted the law was needed because some offensive graffiti was discovered near his home.
 
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Dash

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Rowling wouldn’t have cared if she was arrested. She was being intentionally antagonistic & has been for some time now. This isn’t a new fight for her. She is speaking out loudly for those that can’t. I am happy to have a voice as powerful as hers in this fight.

Just a few of her recent tweets…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1775886785849045478
View: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1775886785849045478?s=61

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1775607886606983424
View: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1775607886606983424?s=61

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1775578845577388343
View: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1775578845577388343?s=61
 
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