When the author dared police to arrest her – if they believed she’d broken new hate-speech laws – she struck a blow for freedom.
JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has defied a hate speech law introduced by the Scottish government. The law, introduced on Monday, makes it an offence to “stir up hatred” based on disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or the fact of a person being intersex. Critics ofbelieve the omission of biological sex means that women born female are not protected if their rights come into conflict with the claims of trans women.
The irony is, women are generally very accepting of trans women. However, a bullying minority in this minority-identification group, including the likes of Bryson and Scott, is determined that coexistence is only acceptable on their own intractable terms.
Rowling wasn’t arrested on her return. How could she have been? The Scottish government would’ve looked like fools.Her public defiance was an important milestone in what has been called “cancel culture”. This is a glimpse of how it will end.Cancel culture, in its modern incarnation, emerged in lockstep with social media.
Cancel culture works by creating a state of “pluralistic ignorance” in the community. That happens when we all hold different views and perspectives but – because it is only safe to utter one view – most people think they are alone in their dissent. That illusion can only be shattered when brave people begin to say what they think, regardless of the consequences to themselves. It then becomes clear that there is no social consensus, after all.
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