The idea that JK Rowling is in any way an antisemite is offensive, preposterous, disgraceful nonsense.
But the idea that Jeremy Corbyn is in any way an antisemite was also offensive, preposterous, disgraceful nonsense, and she joined in with that.
Witchhunts are NEVER OK.
"Burn the witch! Burn the witch!" From a frothing, shameless mob in both cases.
Memo to everyone: someone is not an antisemite because of what happens to be YOUR political position and opinions. And if you had real humanity, you'd say so. In both cases and that of others too.
Do you know what Joanne and Jeremy have in common? They've both done a quite massive amount for vulnerable people.
For some reason, this never gets reported by their myriad haters: many of whom have never done a thing for vulnerable people in their entire lives.
As, of course, did the colossal giant, Desmond Tutu.
Also denounced as an 'antisemite' by people who make me sick and should hang their heads in shame. But who never will - because their entire world is based on punching down on good people and enabling appalling people.
Good luck to those willing to put their head above the parapet in Britain and the United States' disgusting, obscene political discourse.
You won't just be criticised. You'll be DEMONISED. And the demonstrably better a human you are, the worse your treatment will be.
- Knight a war criminal
- Make a career liar and conman PM
- Elect a racist government doing disgustingly racist things every day
- Call its opponents 'racists'
- Call heroes of the apartheid struggle 'antisemites'
- Call people standing up for women everywhere 'antisemites'
There are clear allegories in Harry Potter to both the fight against the Nazis and the fight against British imperialism and white nationalism.
Only in the complete parallel universe in which we now live would someone who wrote about that in such a brilliant way be denounced.
Remember that line about evil succeeding because of good people doing nothing?
No no. Now evil succeeds because good people challenge it and are condemned as the actual evil ones.
Not in my name you disgusting bastards. Not in my name.
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Congratulations to the protesters, who should never have been prosecuted to begin with, Mr "terrorists hate our freedoms but I want protesters locked up".
Down with slavery apologists and down with those who've been rewriting history for centuries.
People like YOU.
Kelvin MacKenzie, by way of reminder:
- Cheerlead Thatcher's devastation of communities throughout the UK
11 years ago, I had the privilege of teaching a huge number of Indian and Bangladeshi students in their late teens and early 20s. Almost all of whom lived and breathed cricket in a manner I'd never come across before.
They all played cricket during lunch and in late afternoon.
I organised a live stream of the India-Pakistan and India-Sri Lanka World Cup semi and final, and a match between the Indian and Bangladeshi students.
Which I umpired and made a bit of a mess of.😳 Some of my decisions were so bad, the Indians were accusing me of matchfixing 🤣
The whole experience left me with a heck of a lot more respect for officials in all sports: it's a bloody hard job, believe me.
When you get a call wrong and KNOW you've got it wrong, then unless you're a narcissist, you start second guessing yourself. Which leads to chaos.
With the fourth ritual humiliation - ahem, I mean Fourth Test - just getting underway, here's a rundown of my ideal cricket team since I started following the game in the late 1980s.
CG Greenidge (West Indies)
MJ Slater (Australia)
IVA Richards (West Indies) (capt)
SR Tendulkar (India)
R Dravid (India)
SR Waugh (Australia)
AC Gilchrist (Australia) (wkt)
SK Warne (Australia)
MD Marshall (West Indies)
CEL Ambrose (West Indies)
W Younis (Pakistan)
2nd XI:
GA Gooch (England)
ST Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)
RT Ponting (Australia)
KC Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) (capt) (wkt)
PA de Silva (Sri Lanka)
AL Logie (West Indies)
A Flintoff (England)
W Akram (Pakistan)
M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)
AA Donald (South Africa)
GD McGrath (Australia)
This is Khadijah Farmer. In 2008, she was ejected from a woman's toilet in New York because "she looked like a man".
Khadijah Farmer is not trans. She's a woman. I'm just wondering how people on my TL explain what happened to her.
This is Eloise Stonborough. She's not trans either. She's a woman. She's been 'confronted tens of times in public toilets'.
Including by a woman as she stood quietly in line to use a toilet in a park. “She stormed off in a huff when I refused to leave".
“One of the worst times was in an art gallery. A man started screaming that there was ‘a f**king man going into the toilet’ at the top of his voice, and started following me around the gallery once I’d left the toilet. I had to tell security so he could be escorted out".
See also, the loony right in Argentina. Which to its eternal shame, urged people not to take the vaccine because they were being "experimented on" - then harangued the government when the rollout and uptake weren't fast enough. 🙄🙄