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I'll take it a step further : Where are the politicians?

They're lining up in their HUNDREDS to condemn simian emojis sent to celebrity footballers by Russian bots.

But if it's LEGIT DEATH THREATS sent to another celebrity they're conspicuously silent. Gee I wonder why 🙄

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The BBC too. Dozens of articles on the England players. A reasonable response to hideous abuse.

Abuse of Rowling seems to be acceptable though. The BBC only seem to deem the abuse as newsworthy if Ralph Feinnes defends her from it. As if it stands to reason she'd be threatened with violence regularly and it's only remarkable that a celebrity would step out of line and defend her from it.

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Excellent point...the virtual signalling of outrage...but death threats and bullying. Silence.

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You're so right. Please keep naming and shaming the cowards who collude with that misogynistic menace.

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Is it because women's rights are just not fashionable enough for the celebrity virtue signallers or is it because they secretly agree with Rowling but are far too cowardly to speak out, or is it because they can bleat about black rights without any personal consequences but if they were to support women's rights they have an uncomfortable feeling that they might actually have to change their own behaviour?

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All of the above.

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I absolutely agree. Self serving ,cowardly sycophants !!

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Frances Barber was tweeting in JK’s defence last night and was immediately targeted.

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Some entitled little jerk who works for Barclays Bank tried to get her taken off the production of Hamlet. Frances wasn’t having any of it.

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Jay Mann. You should see him - 7st soaking wet with the IQ of a wart. Absolutely vile pos

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I have to remember "the IQ of a wart"!

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Yes!

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My heart is aching today. It feels so relentless. How can people not see what’s happening. This is radicalisation in plain sight and everyone seems to either applaud it or turn a blind eye. What’s wrong with people. I’m so frustrated I could cry.

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We were wondering how it was possible 90 years ago. Now we know. And I am afraid it is only a matter of time until one of these "activists" takes the whole thing one step further.

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Do you mean murder? A transactivist stalked a lesbian couple in Oakland, California, for years, then murdered them and their son. From what I have read, ZERO coverage from the LGBTQWTF press.

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Some sort of aggrevated physical attack would most likely be the next step of radicalisation. Do you have any link on the Oakland asassination? I think this is something we should keep handy just in case we are again told that TRAs threatening rape and murder are just isolated cases and nothing is to be feared.

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Thanks. What an awful story. And btw practically a textbook example of a man on a murder spree.

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Not mentioned in this story- which you can find in other stories on this case, if you do some digging- is that the victims and perpetrator knew each other from MichFest and its opponent Camp Trans, an ideological precursor to the gender wars, and the training ground for a lot of these militant trans activists.

MichFest was a female-only women’s festival which ran from the 1970’s until 2015, nearly fifty years.

In its latter years, men who said they were women began sneaking in, often revealing themselves in the showers. They would be kicked out by the mostly lesbian female attendees and organizers.

Camp Trans, a protest camp of trans activists, mainly trans women, was set up across from them, and began its own festival. The ACLU and other organizations supported Camp Trans in its aims, including of getting performers to boycott MichFest for not allowing them in, trying to get them to play at Camp Trans instead, or just cancel altogether. They were successful in these pressuring tactics (they are a bunch of highly focused, hateful narcissists who are extremely good at this kind of thing), and in 2015 they were successful at getting the largest and longest-running women’s only festival in the world shut down.

That was not enough for Rivers, who it’s rumored was obsessed with one of the victims in the butch lesbian couple he murdered. He stalked them at their home after the festival was no longer even going on, then laid a plan to murder them and their son.

That this man is described as “gentle” and an “award-winning educator” has echoes of how male narcissistic serial killers and especially family annihilators are often spoken about as “great guys”- men who kill their families especially- “without an abusive bone in their bodies” who must have “snapped.” Often there is implied victim-blaming of the women and children they murder.

This was not a “gentle individual.” This was a narcissistic, sexually obsessed, creepy triple murderer, for Christ’s sake.

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Yep, pretty horriffic. :-(

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thanks graham, for not ignoring the threats, for understanding that those who threaten violence will continue to do so if there is no comeback for them. if the regulations violated are not upheld/and if then these laws that do exist are also attacked - the threats of violence will continue.

of course bullies don't just threaten violence. those who threaten violence enact their threats if those threatened are not protected. so these public-made threats need to be acknowledged. repeatedly.

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What is so saddening and maddening is that many of the same people now silent or applauding have called for campaigns or legislation to protect women from the same treatment by verified Nazis - but apparently if it's a woman speaking up for women's rights that's too much to ask.

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It's amazing, isn't it, how few people have true, real courage. All those who so bravely "stand up" for the rights of men, which are already backed by every organization and government in the Western world. And how few are willing to stand up against the real discrimination and marginalization of women, that is hitting hardest the poorest and most deprived.

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Thank you, Graham. What a roster of cowardice.

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'I wish you a very nice pipe bomb in the mailbox': JK Rowling calls out troll who tweeted death threat at her by saying how failed bids to 'cancel' her have left them with 'only one place left to go'

An account entitled 'Sam (Egocom Arc)' tweeted sick threat to author last night

In response author bravely hit back, saying critics had failed in bid to cancel her

55-year-old has faced barrage of hate from 'trans allies' over comments last June

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9802029/JK-Rowling-calls-troll-tweeted-death-threat-her.html

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Plot twist- The Daily Mail are now bastions of free speech. F’king hell.

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Waiting for a safe thing to virtue signal about.

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I pray she starts legal action against Twitter..or at least sue the ones threatening her..that will give them a wake up call

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It is astounding that with all the action being taken against race hate on social media that hate against women can go by almost unremarked. It just shows how sexist society is.

I always notice as well that people comment on her being rich and saying she is targeting poor people and I think that comes from a place of misogynistic hate too - hate that a woman could, off her own back, and using only her own skills, become a self made billionaire ( before she gave so much away).

Where do we raise these issues ? - my MP is Clive Lewis so I can’t write to him because he doesn’t care and wouldn’t raise it in Parliament and you can’t write to MPs who do care unless you are their constituent. Is a letter to BoJo the only option. It is so frustrating to have no representation.

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Interesting point...but then the black footballers and Lewis Hamilton having abuse (not death threats) are all multi millionaires.

Whether rich or poor saying men cannot become women is biology.

Whether rich or poor we die the same sex as we were born.

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Amazing no one has the guts to call it out.

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Here in Scotland those, like Josie, relocating from S England are known as

great white settlers.

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We have a few of those in Wales 😁

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Showbiz people can do very little but the law can yet they are, seemingly, the least interested of all. When you get people being arrested for singing Bob the Builder, but can't get someone arrested for threatening people with pipe bombs, something is very VERY wrong. Oh and David Walliams is a known coward anyway

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And a creep - remember this? https://www.ft.com/content/075d679e-0033-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5

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Why wasn't Bill Clinton invited? He loves to put his hand up servers' clothing.

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Bitty, bitty, bitty, was spot on, heh?

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I see radicalisation to violence going on there, that’s regarded as a warning sign of potential terrorism and the benchmark Prevent work to.

It’s beyond "hate speech".

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In idpol circles who have taken over large parts of the humanities in academia this is seen as a healthy reaction by whatever group has managed to portrait itself as the most marginalised. You can count on them to actively throw in their professional weight to fight any and all attempts to deradicalise this activist community. Plus, of course, their undereducated graduates in all formerly left and liberal movements and media they have also managed to infiltrate. (And the hatemongers on the right are already having a field day, what with the left paralyzed.)

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