JK Rowling hits out at ‘ludicrous’ SNP hate crime law amid trans row
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https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/19/jk-rowling-india-willoughby-hate-crime-trans-row/
@Graci The law *is* ludicrous. That's a fact. That woman, however, is just so full of bile that she's very aware she'd end up in jail.
@stueytheround interested as to why you think it's ridiculous mate?
@killingfloorman Talk to @ecksmc for more details, but it's seriously Big Brother stuff. Conversations "in your own home" can be reported for instance. All media. Comedy, the arts, *everything* can be reported if somebody is offended. It's gone beyond trying to prevent hate speech as you or I understand it. It's trying to silence dissent on *any* subject.
@Graci
@killingfloorman I fully support a law which *effectively* tackles harmful speech but this law is literally taking liberties.
In extremis, a neo-nazi could report a stand-up comedian who jokes about neo-nazis, for instance.
@stueytheround @killingfloorman @ecksmc @Graci There's a certain point where you cannot legislate morals and ethics, only teach them.
@stueytheround I'm checking in with the people at home to get their views 🏴👍
@killingfloorman
I'm pretty certain a large part of it will prove unenforceable but it's worrying that a government in the UK is trying to go so far.
@ecksmc @Graci
@stueytheround not that I don't trust wee eck, but I'd need the reasoning from people not quite as anti SNP before pronouncing 🤣😎
@stueytheround we already had a hate crime law in place that was working
this new one is too broad on the definition of what constitutes a crime imo and open for manipulation by certain people or groups
@stueytheround @killingfloorman @ecksmc @Graci It's the sort of law that is intended to be applied selectively so that those in power can claim they are only punishing lawbreakers, and that a citizen asked them to uphold it so it's the will of the people.
Such laws are designed to silence selective speech and provide phony justification for oppression and persecution.
@stueytheround @killingfloorman @ecksmc @Graci If I may offer my limited insights on how "evil" gets shit done.
I might have some small experience in that area of study.
I'm torn. I feel like we want to avoid Authoritarianism at all costs, but the outrage kinda smacks of "You can't say ANYTHING anymore without people getting offended.", which is usually just people with shitty opinions/jokes getting mad at being called out for them. ,🤔
@Heucuva8 @stueytheround @killingfloorman @Graci
Ironically, some of the aspects of the bill that have been most criticised are items SNP MPs fought against at Westminster when a similar bill was being debated there.
lol
@Heucuva8 @stueytheround @killingfloorman @Graci
i will say though people are over sensitive these days like anything and everything offends them and they will go looking for it in order to moan about being offended
@Heucuva8 @stueytheround @killingfloorman @Graci
and further the Scottish police know they are gonna get a deluge of complaints hence why they have set up 3rd party complaint centres around Scotland inside sex shops and other places
it's gonna be a hit show imo with people reading things online then reporting it or hearing conversations on say a bus and reporting it etc.... Police have already stated it is going to be hard to actually police this
@ecksmc the more I look into it, the more it looks like a storm in a teacup being stirred up by people desperate to deflect from their own failures and hate ( tories, unionists, terfs, not you eck).
I'll keep digging.
@stueytheround thanks
@ecksmc @Graci