Look. I don’t think terfs should be arrested. I want to abolish cops and prisons. But this article by Libby Brooks is a disgrace and the should really withdraw it.
The story concerns “allegedly transphobic tweets.” Yet the article DOES NOT QUOTE ANY OF HER TWEETS.
Conversation
2
23
With respect, it doesn’t quote any of the tweets because these are active legal proceedings and the detail of the charges has not been released by the crown office yet. Many thanks
4
1
22
Did you read the rest of the thread? Your readers will come away with the impression that the legal and political question at issue is whether one should be able to post “offensive” tweets. The law’s clear: one can. So you have misrepresented the case and slandered trans people.
Grace, I'll try and be clearer: the crown office has not yet set out the messages that MM is being charged over; they are likely to come out at the sheriff court hearing; I cannot report them if I do not know what they are! Really hope that's crystal now
12
4
11
No, I got that. If you want to clarify in the article that being offensive/transphobic is only one—and by *far* the least serious—of the *possible* claims against MM, you’d have more credibility on that point. But it looks as tho you haven’t read the rest of my thread?
1
39
again, the real question is not what is happening in this case, but why the guardian is reporting the propaganda of a hate group as though it were news, and how this got through editorial without anyone asking what that paragraph about “LGBT activists” meant
1
7
58
What’s obvious, , is that you empathize with one of the positions you describe, and find the other baffling. That is obviously your prerogative. When writing a news story, however, it is reasonable to seek quotes from those on both sides of a contest. You did not.
1
3
46
Show replies
you're very naive if you think the line between grossly offensive and offensive is easily drawn or a good basis for distinguishing criminal from protected speech.
1
Perhaps you missed the part where I said we should abolish cops? The portrayal of the tweets as offensive—rather than threats, disclosure of personal information, or libels—is both prejudicial, and profoundly misrepresents the tactics of online GCs. As you well know.
1
6
Show replies