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JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This story at PinkNews is linked by the techdirt story:

JK Rowling shared a screenshot of a page from the Amnesty International UK website which had previously hosted the report. Rowling’s post read: “Translation: oops, didn’t realise people outside our ideological bubble are this p***** off about the loss of sex-based rights. We remain implacably opposed to any organisation fighting to retain them, but shove in the words ‘rights of women’ to keep the bigots happy.”

She also said: “It appears that (as many of us have suspected for years) Amnesty believes certain kinds of humans don’t deserve rights: women, girls and those who are proudly same-sex attracted. I hope donors from those groups are taking note.”

That's just some breathtaking mental gymnastics there, it's so twisted-into-knots it's barely coherent. Who even are "the bigots" in her sarcastic statement? How could a writer write that absolute serpent of a statement and not have second thoughts?

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

She's rabid with hatred

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

This is a common logical fallacy when it comes to rights. She wrongly feels that giving others the right to live their life is actually infringing on her and other people's lives. This is of course ridiculous and false which is why she is a bigot.

Her position is also anti anti-discrimination. This is the common trope of the right. They view fighting against societal problems as unacceptable because it makes them look bad. It is a kill the messenger approach that entrenched players use to try and justify their insane hate.

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Describing her as a writer is awfully charitable of you. She only wrote one story worth telling (for kids), and her attempts at anything else have been pretty lukewarm.

She is more like a hateful Internet celebrity than anything else.