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RaveJK Rowling's response to hate crime law
I just wanted to share this post on X which sums up just how powerful and brilliant it was for JK Rowling to do what she has been doing all day, on Day 1 of the new hate crime law.
https://twitter.com/Rob_ThaBuilder/status/1774959860502708291
It's hard to overstate how important - and strategically brilliant - @jk_rowling 's power move was today, a first-move checkmate that effectively neutered Scotland's dangerous new #HateCrimeBill. By openly and unambiguously breaking this law - on a massive public platform - on its very first day, she has in effect nullified the law by forcing the authorities in Scotland into a corner where they only have two options, both of which will be this laws downfall. They can:
Option 1) Enforce the law as it's written, arrest Ms Rowling, creating the world's greatest Streisand Effect and put this law under the kind of extreme scrutiny it was never designed to withstand. Her arrest and trial would be in many ways the biggest media event in years and give the deep-pocketed Rowling the world's biggest stage with which to our transgenderism on trial. Anybody regularly involved in this debate knows the massive, enormous flaws in the logic that underpins gender ideology, and instinctively understands a trial of this magnitude would be a death blow both for this law in particular, and gender ideology in general. Personally, although I don't know what's going on inside Ms Rowling's head, I suspect this route is her preferred option. I think she wants this fight. Her taunting responses all day to the smooth brained pearl-clutchers whining about her thread suggests she's run out of fucks to give and wants to have this battle out in a real forum. And what better forum than a court of law?
Option 2) They DONT enforce the law (precisely BECAUSE they know it would kick off a humiliating battle they cannot win, and would galvanize such strong public support against the law that the SNP would likely suffer catastrophic political consequences) and the Elephant In The Room of having such a massive public personality so openly break the law without any consequences effectively renders the law null and void for anybody charged with it who ISN'T JK Rowling. All anybody charged with this law would have to do would be introduce Rowling's tweet thread in court and make the extremely persuasive argument that it is being selectively and arbitrarily enforced. After all, if such a massive public voice isn't charged under this law, clearly the law is unenforceable on anyone else. In effect, Rowling has created a shield for anyone WITHOUT her massive platform and deep pockets with her thread that - so long as it remains public on @X and she remains uncharged - effectively gives anyone else a Get Out of Jail Free card.
Either way, the law is cooked: either they charge Rowling and the resulting massive scrutiny of the law will inevitably result in it's repeal OR they don't charge her and the law is in effect utterly nullified.
Heads she wins, tails they lose. This is about as close to a chess match being lost on the first move as you're ever going to see.
It's interesting that cats were used to ridicule suffragists before they took back the symbol! 🐱 It's reminiscent of how cats are used to ridicule women today.
I wonder if its a coincidence but there are anti feminist women who use 'cat' in their username on social media. One of them is pretty well known, I won't name her as she might appear in a cloud of sulfur.
I thought the colours were Green White Violent because G,W,V = Give Women Votes.
The colors stood for both. Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence sure had a flair for publicity.