Transphobia isn't a matter of "purity" or "personal beliefs" any more than racism or misogyny is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @onefortymax
Anyway what's very telling of course here is the class politics, the shock and anger that a mere tradesman could talk back to one of her betters Your own felt need here to equate working as someone's accountant with serving them at McDonald's
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Nah, just how awful every day life would be if every business interaction came with a ‘let’s check whether you tick all my personal work check boxes today’. But easier to attack a straw man, I guess. You do you.
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Replying to @onefortymax
If I were an accountant I wouldn't want to do taxes for someone who wrote a letter supporting racial segregation, or in favor of banning abortion
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That’s nice Arthur. I guess we get to the point where someone who wrote this is equivalent to supporting racial segregation sometime soon, right? Or are we still playing the boy who cried transphobe?pic.twitter.com/OCrjy0GqVj
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Replying to @onefortymax @arthur_affect
And, of course, Jess’s accountant didn’t write to lecture her over that statement. She lectured her over a letter to the Times that said abuse like this was wrong:https://medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-activists-a-story-in-screenshots-78e01dca68d …
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Replying to @onefortymax @arthur_affect
You're making two VERY different arguments. Are you saying that 'accountants shouldn't lecture clients about their politics' or that 'JKR's politics don't deserve a lecture'? Is this about free speech, or is this about the content of her views?
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Replying to @zacharyherz @arthur_affect
Accountant has the right to withdraw their business if they wish. Doing so, and doing it with a lecture, when all someone has done is defend someone else from that abuse I linked to? Course it’s their right, but it’s Puritan.
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Replying to @onefortymax @arthur_affect
you're dodging the question. If she did all this to a person who'd said something you find really awful--like, say, endorsing segregation--would you still have a problem with it?
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Replying to @zacharyherz @arthur_affect
Zachery, I’m talking about what actually happened here. Do you think this abuse is ok? https://medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-activists-a-story-in-screenshots-78e01dca68d … If yes, ugh. If no, send me your accountant’s deets so I can get them to send you a stern telling off.
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I don't think it's "okay" but when it's the result of a billionaire celebrity attacking a vulnerable minority I don't think it's worth getting upset over, like that's the serious issue at hand and not what she said and did
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Donald Trump gets horrific abuse on Twitter like this all the time! Plenty of people saying awful things I wouldn't defend - not just wishing him dead or wishing sexual violence on him but saying things that cross over the line into bigotry toward others
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People using ableist slurs against him, people going after his ancestry in a way that crosses over into xenophobia, etc I literally do not care I don't read it and I don't think about it and it doesn't matter to me
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