J.K. Rowling Returns To Global Spotlight After Alleging She'd Received Death Threats From Trans Activists

July 22nd, 2021 - 3:58 PM EDT by Adam Downer

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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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Shui
Shui

in reply to SSmotzer

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.

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Zigzagoon
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.

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