Being wrongly accused of racism and/or bigotry is of course horrific, and so much worse than being called a jerk or an idiot that it's laughable to suggest otherwise. And I appreciate the irony of you ending your daft tweet with a racist insult. Kudos.
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Though interestingly, he jumped on the word "racist" but not the war criminal bit of the sentence.
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Yes because no one accused JK Rowling of that so that part just makes you come off as a histrionic fool
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I'm histrionic. Says the gentleman screaming at me that I'm a 'fucking dipshit,' a 'fucking turd' and every other playground insult he can dredge up. Stay classy you self-described genius.
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These are all, as Bryan helpfully reminded us, examples of insults that are matters of opinion and therefore cannot be legally actionable in a defamation suit, as opposed to his bizarre example of accusing someone of murdering civilians during wartime
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and
To be fair, I wouldn't say that calling someone racist or transphobic falls within the same purview as, say, calling them an idiot. It's an insult, but it's one which clearly implies a sufficiently specific factual assertion as to have a meaningful truth value.
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Replying to @quantum_boulder @arthur_affect and
That said, that vagueness ought to mean it's only actionable if the claim being made is clearly incorrect, which is not the case here. No reasonable person would say "JKR is so obviously not a transphobe that no good faith interpretation of her actions would suggest she is one".
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Replying to @quantum_boulder @arthur_affect and
Perhaps not, but if you are grouped in with proven bigots in a published article in a lazy 'as with Picasso, Dali etc...' manner, it's a pretty clear attack.
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Replying to @VincentFletcher @quantum_boulder and
Lol Picasso and Dali are "proven bigots" and JKR isn't, huh Name me the court cases where a jury proved it then
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Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder and
If a man beats up his wife and isn't prosecuted in a court of law, he's still a scumbag who beat up his wife. Picasso and Dali (just as examples of people you don't want to be grouped with) are retrospectively recognised as misogynistic creeps.
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Okay, and JK Rowling is recognized as a bigot
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Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder and
Not by the ex-editor of bigoted right wing newspaper The Daily Express she isn't.
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Replying to @VincentFletcher @quantum_boulder and
Gosh, if only Salvador Dali were still alive and had a billion dollars with which to hire a team of lawyers to look over that scurrilous gossip you just engaged in
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