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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Replying to @onefortymax @arthur_affect
This isn't anywhere near the worst online abuse I've seen, no, and it barely compares to the kind of pileons I've seen of trans public figures (e.g., Emly VDwerf). So I think it's gross and I'd report it, but I find the magnitude of the response odd. I do my own taxes.
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Replying to @zacharyherz @arthur_affect
You think it’s gross? Great, you’re a human being capable of empathy. Well done. But you’re also just like Jess. Who thinks it’s gross and wrote to a newspaper about it. Who should tell you off? Do you have a dog walker?
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Replying to @onefortymax @arthur_affect
No. I can't afford servants. It's the "writing to a newspaper about it." That's not saying it's bad, but that it's *so important to me that I must take action.* I'm not clear why this one pileon needs an open letter and I suspect it's because of the trans angle.
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Yeah Donald Trump gets a lot more abuse than JK Rowling and has been getting it for longer, where's his open letter
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