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JK Rowling has challenged Scotland's new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence.

The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.

She said "freedom of speech and belief" was at an end if accurate description of biological sex was outlawed.

Earlier, Scotland's first minister Humza Yousaf said the new law would deal with a "rising tide of hatred".

The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of "stirring up hatred" relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.

Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nope, I literally called you a fellow traveler and a Nazi supporter. Because you're supporting Nazis.

And it's odd that you're talking about credibility when you continue to refuse to review a lot of information about an ongoing genocide so that you can continue to claim it isn't happening.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Keep going. Your hyperbole and moral panic are entertaining. Those Nazis are everywhere, I tell you. Everywhere!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah, so now genocide is a moral panic. Those horrible trans people!

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And another logical fallacy. Keep going. You're doing great!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Believe it or not, just accusing me of making logical fallacies doesn't actually make them logical fallacies.

It's not my fault that you're a fellow traveler, it's yours.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, making logical fallacies makes your argument logically fallacious. But keep going.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Too bad it's not a logical fallacy to call a genocide denier, which you are, a fellow traveler.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I already pointed out the logical fallacies one of your posts, in which virtually every word was part of a logical fallacy. That must be very embarrassing for you as a grown man. I don't think I need to embarrass you further. But keep going. Tell me again that I'm a Nazi.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I know you claimed every part of it was a logical fallacy. That doesn't make it true. Much like this is a falsehood:

Tell me again that I’m a Nazi.

I still have not called you a Nazi. I don't know why you've lied about that twice now. It's interesting that you think your lying would embarrass me.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Hair splitting. But keep going.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nope. A fellow traveler is not a Nazi. They mean different things. So that's another lie. How many more lies do you plan to tell?

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't hurt your legs backpedalling so fast.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Another lie. I did no backpedaling. So we'll call that four lies.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Distraction and derailing. Claiming that I'm lying in order to avoid dealing with your logically fallacious argument.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nope, I'm claiming that you're lying because you're lying. You lied twice about me calling you a Nazi, which I never did, once by claiming that a fellow traveler and a Nazi are the same thing, which they are not, and once because you claimed I backpedaled, which you did not do.

Furthermore, it is not a fallacy that there is an ongoing transgender genocide just because you arrogantly refuse to believe it.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Time for you to go back to school. Your style of argument is full of hyperbole, ad hominem attacks, slippery slope assumptions, hair splitting, and straw men.

But keep going.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Your claims do not change your lies or your genocide denial.

And repeatedly saying "but keep going" achieves absolutely nothing other than making you look like a very silly person.