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Please do. She may see herself as some kind of martyr, but everyone else just sees her as an idiot.
I may not have the whole facts and information, but to me, it is beginning to sound more like a witch-hunt. Just let her have her opinions and move forward
How's telling her that she has shitty opinion a witch hunt, but her using her fame and wealth to spread her shitty opinion way beyond what a normal random person could ever do, isn't?
As mentioned, I do not have all the details. I have heard some of her ideas, but I don't follow her that closely. Many famous people have terrible ideas and many fans to spread their ideas to. To me it mostly looks like people being hurt even more by JK, because they like the universe that she has created but her ideology does not fit their own.
It's fair to feel like this, but she is just one person sharing her ideas. Nobody goes like: "JK is against trans people, so I am too". At least they shouldn't and at least we should expect most people don't. Just let her have her opinions and leave it at that
"I don't know the details, but this person is being falsely accused" is not a very rational position, so I hope you didn't think it was.
You say ypu don't have all the details to rid yourself of being responsible for the hate you are defending, because you're an idiot.
Oh sweet summer child.
Well then maybe, you should look a bit deeper in the topic before you propose that she's the victim of a witch hunt? I mean it's really not that hard, all the controversial shit is right there on her own twitter and can easily be found.
What? Of course people are constantly influenced by other people's opinions. That's how opinions form in the first place. And a world famous author with tons of followers on top of a shit ton of money to throw at groups actively advocating for legal restrictions on transsexual people obviously has a lot more power to influence people's opinions and shitty laws than you or me in that regard. So no, she's not just a person sharing her ideas, she's an incredible influencual one sharing her hate in a time when the transsexual community is under active attack in several modern countries not only resulting in hurt feelings but actual people ending up dead!
If you don't have all the facts, then it's best to shut up and move forward.
Learn to take your own advice before telling others to do it.
I guess I'm going to let you have your own opinion about that as well, and just move forward...
Good for you.
Go defend radical hate to somebody who cares what uninformed idiots have to say.
It is just a modern day witch hunt. If you posted this anywhere else but Lemmy this would be the popular opinion.