JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow

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• steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I disagree with a lot of what Linehan says but I didn’t see his tweets as breaching the theshold for inciting violence. I think a threat needs to have the maker/sender of it claim that they, or those close to them, are credibly about to enact the violence.

  The tweet I saw, not sure if it’s the one that got him in trouble, was similar to how people put “punch nazis” in their twitter bio. To me, that is non-specific and not a credible threat.

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  • Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neeson wasn’t inciting violence though was he? He wasn’t encouraging others to be violent. He was describing an incident in his past which he went on to describe how this behaviour filled him with shame and remorse. It was literally the opposite of inciting violence.

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  • dandelion@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Writing on his blog, Mr. Linehan said he was taken into police custody, searched and interviewed in relation to three posts he made on X in April, including one that read: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

    Mr. Rowley defended the arrest in his statement, saying that the law “dictates that a threat to punch someone from a protected group could be an offense” and that “most reasonable people would agree that genuine threats of physical violence against an identified person or group should be acted upon by officers.”

    In the 12 months that ended in March 2024, almost 4,800 hate crimes were recorded against transgender people, British police data shows, up from 2,800 hate crimes in the 12 months that ended in March 2021.

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    Mr. Linehan, 57, is set to go on trial on Thursday on separate charges of harassing an 18-year-old campaigner for transgender rights, accusations he denies.

    Linehan made three separate threats, is already on trial for harassing a trans-rights activist, and is a known anti-trans activist - the context is important, it's not like this is being overblown, a bigot is advocating for violence against a minority group he campaigns against.

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Journalists need to drop this use of slam.

  Whines about… Is butthurt about… Wails incoherently…

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tbh what he did say was inciting violence. You cannot deny that

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  • G4Z@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, is it not the same vein as when we say you should punch a nazi?

    Now I mean obviously, he’s wrong and all the rest of it but I don’t think these kind of hypotheticals are calls for violence.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think we should shoot nazis. Primarily because they are traitors to King and Country

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    • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The main difference is the Linham has a history that means it’s probably not a hypothetical. He’s already appearing in court on the fourth for harassing a trans woman and breaking her phone.

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Punch bayonet

      • my grandfather

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• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Transphobe sad that other transphobe was treated correctly.

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• Bonus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You wouldn’t steal a transphobic call to violence…

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