Where is everyone?

Celebrities are conspicuously silent on the abuse JK Rowling receives

Have any of my old pals from the world of showbusiness commented on this?

J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling

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.

David Walliams is supposedly a Rowling fan but I’ve yet to see him condemn the treatment she’s been getting. Let me check his latest tweets… hmm, plenty of virtue signalling, but nothing to support this survivor of domestic violence receiving death and rape threats. Racism IS bad, David, but your silence on the matter of JK Rowling suggests that misogyny is the ‘acceptable’ face of hate.

Dara O’Briain, what do you think?

Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain

Even I, who likes this stuff, am finding hard to care about Branson’s trip to “space”.

What about death and rape threats sent to feminist authors? Could you rouse yourself to be interested in that?

David O’Doherty? The ‘trans ally’ who gave my wife shit over the phone because he didn’t have the guts to confront me? Let’s see what he’s talking about.

David O'Doherty @phlaimeaux

🎵HOW MUCH IS THAT BIRKENSTOCK IN THE WINDOW🎵

Very funny! Any thoughts on your fellow children’s author being sent rape and death threats?

How about Josie Long?

Josie Long @JosieLong

i really like living in scotland.

I tell you who else lives in Scotland! JK Rowling, currently receiving death and rape threats which you have not condemned.

Aisling Bea what do you think of the pipe bomb threat? You were full of talk of nuance when you wrote this disgraceful, patronising tweet to a survivor of domestic violence.

Aisling Bea @WeeMissBea

From the lovely, brilliant stand up @sarahkcomedy to the author @jk_rowling who created a lead character who was told he was one thing but could absolutely be another if he wanted by a magical hat. Even the sorting hat saw nuance & was aware it was infallible defining people. 🧙🏻‍♀️

Sarah Keyworth @sarahkcomedy

An open letter to @jk_rowling. Please share it around. I’d really like for her to read it. https://t.co/j5cXO4OtPI

Anything to say now that the woman you and Cariad Lloyd harassed for imaginary transphobia is receiving death and rape threats?

Jon Ronson, author of ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’, anything to say about this public shaming, certainly more ambitious in scope and significance than what Justine Sacco went through? Not even a trace of journalistic interest in it?

jon ronson @jonronson

This just re-aired today, from 2015. It's the first interview I ever did for Shamed, IIRC. It's with the wonderful @OTMBrooke. These are the days before everyone started yelling, so we're chatting away with delightful unselfconsciousness.

wnycstudios.orgFrom Public Shaming To Cancel Culture | On the Media | WNYC StudiosWhat part did mass internet shaming play in making “cancel culture” the moral panic it is today?

Yes, all that awful yelling. Like when a woman is calling out for help after receiving rape and death threats.

The pipe bomb is just the latest part of a campaign that’s been going on for months now. I’ll leave you with Dataracer’s thread that gives you some idea of what she’s been going through and ask once again…

…WHERE. IS. EVERYONE?

Dataracer @Dataracer117

Here are the death threats and harassment JK Rowling has been recieving. Including abuse from verified accounts. Dozens of hit pieces written about "the backlash to her transphobia." Not one mentioned the threats she's receiving from these radical activists.

Dataracer @Dataracer117

Thousands of violent threats & harassment sent to JK Rowling by trans activists. Verified Twitter accounts calling her a coward for turning off replies. Upset they couldn't bully her for the crime of free speech.