I read the New European JK Rowling story 3 times yesterday + realised how easy it would be to take the arguments at face value. So here's a thread of all the inaccuracies and incorrect assumptions I spotted, in case you too are worried abt a family member who buys it every day 1. The headline/premise: there's no war against JKR. Even if you equate the idea of "cancel culture" to "war", none of this applies to JK - there is no huge movement calling for Harry Potter to be cancelled (at least, not for her views on trans people)...

📢After 15 months, 2 elections, Brexit, a global pandemic, murder hornets, Bernie Sanders' mittens, approximately 1475628596 Trump rallies, and ALL the discourse, I've come to my final week as editor of @indy100 📢

Fancied taking a trip down memory lane so here goes... In no particular order, some of the stories I've been proudest to publish:

When @_SeanOGrady did some vErY sErIoUs PoLiTiCs and interviewed our fave prospective MP, Count Binface indy100.com/news/general-e…

A reminder that yes, gender is a construct - it is also real. The vast majority of things in the world that exist are social constructs (such as: misogyny). Sex is a construct too: it's a way humans have invented to categorise people based on observed sexual characteristics (1/) There is no way to be "objectively" or "scientifically" female, it's all based on random assignation of meaning to existing trails which sometimes (arguably most of the time), but not always, can align to things like chromosomes and genitals. (2/)