Got to love JK

Yes, and no. I fundamentally agree with her position on trans issues. Maybe someone of her stature who is uncancellable does need to draw a line in the sand by using provocative language to make a point, but in most cases I would not call a transwoman a man.

As a rule you go with politeness and live-and-let-live, but JKR was discussing characters, some of them criminals, who 'push it' in a manner hostile to women's rights, making their actual sex the issue. Police Scotland have blinked first and said they definitely won't be charging JKR. Although it's not a judicial precedent, it should mean that 'misgendering' cannot in itself be criminalised, even if you don't have JKR's profile and resources. She's performed a public service by establishing that straight off.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68712471

The law is still a bad, stupid and unnecessary one (there is no such 'rising tide of hatred' as the Scottish First Minister claims -- the wee laddie's far too young to remember the 1970s, a more difficult time in all sorts of ways), and the police don't welcome it and don't want the pointless workload.

This made me lol

Indeed. Rarely in the history of law making has so much nonsense talked by so many been debunked so quickly

Hate speech laws in general should have no place at all, no exceptions, in western societies, because giving judges (or even worse, "government agencies") the power to censor content on the basis of their own particular reading of some content, is always infinitely worse than the worst.effects of hate speech can ever be.

This is a line that should never be crossed

lol'd.

Almost 4,000 complaints received in the first 2 days.

Reported for Hate Speech !

We have some numbers in for the new Hate Crime legislation.

Police Scotland had previously said they would investigate every single hate crime report. This was a mere 2 weeks after they said they would no longer be investigating some lower level crimes such as theft.

I gather 'hate crime' reports now outnumber reports of all other crimes put together in Scotland. The First Minister claims that this proves the law is needed. It actually proves something quite different and the police, even though they're dismissing almost all reports, clearly can't be expected to handle this and also do their essential job.

The hate crime reports are known to be the result of a campaign by people to report alleged anti-white offences in protest at the law which they feel restricts their right to racially abuse people.

Lets see once the trolling and pent up demand has played out.

Can you post the data on this, and the people involved in the campaign, or a link to it?

I don't know if the full dataset is available but there are numerous reports in the media such as

Spare a thought for Elrazor and diebitter's keyboards.

Westminster goss

Arrived home to find an election leaflet, with the union flag on the front and back cover. At first glance I assumed it was from whichever white power party is currently popular, but it turns out it's from Labour.

Would anti white speech be persecuted under the act? Because there is plenty in a lot of currently popular books, does the act address books as well?

https://www.politico.eu/article/nige...s-out-dead-uk/

and today cosying up to The Daily Mail.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...za-and-climate

The pressure will tell eventually if we dont waste our votes by letting them take us for granted.

If the young are turned off labour cos climate, I'm starting to feel better about humanity. Hope KS reinstates those climate commitments.