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The "Harry Potter" author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X  in which she referred to transgender women as men.

J.K. Rowling shared a social media thread on Monday, the day a new Scottish hate-crime law took effect, that misgendered several transgender women and appeared to imply trans women have a penchant for sexual predation. On Tuesday, Scottish police announced they would not be investigating the “Harry Potter” author’s remarks as a crime, as some of Rowling’s critics had called for.

“We have received complaints in relation to the social media post,” a spokesperson for Police Scotland said in a statement. “The comments are not assessed to be criminal and no further action will be taken.”

Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Act criminalizes “stirring up hatred” against people based on their race, religion, disability, sexuality or gender identity.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

It certainly does change things.

It's enabled bigots all over the world to get in touch with each other and become even more vicious and violent because they can coordinate.

But I'm sure if we pray hard enough to Jesus, no black person or queer person or Jewish person or any other minority will ever be threatened again.

Because it's either that or Soviet Russia. There's nothing in between.

[-] Shake747@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

It's also enabled everyone to see cultures and ways of life they would never be able to before. People can share their differences and traditions more openly too. Knowing more about cultures, practices and different people is what opens doors to not being racist

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Knowing more about cultures, practices and different people is what opens doors to not being racist

Can you actually demonstrate this to be the case so far?

Because this sure doesn't seem to agree with you- https://div46amplifier.com/2022/12/14/online-racism-has-the-internet-caused-more-harm-than-good/

[-] Shake747@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Not a lot of real world analysis (that's not a priori) that I could find specifically on race, but here's one regarding this issue but with prejudice against transgender:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aad9713

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

That's about face-to-face conversations. So what does that have to do with your claim that the internet reduces racism?

[-] Shake747@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

This is so pedantic it hurts. I don't know how to dumb this down any further. You win, racism will never end and let's just put everyone in jail. Enjoy!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I made neither claim. Why are you lying about what I said?

You claimed the internet reduces racism and your so-called evidence didn't involve the internet. That's not my fault.

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