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The last 24 hours tell you everything you need to know about the modern day witchhunts 1/x

I saw two pieces of information from people that had actually read @jk_rowling’s book ahead of its release, the telegraph @JakeKerridge who suggested its moral was never trust a man in a dress...

And @NickCohen4 of The Observer who said it absolutely was not anti-trans 2/x

Without having read the book,guess which the pitchfork mob focussed on? Being behind a paywall,I suspect most haven’t even read the Telegraph review but instead just the headlines, or maybe the 2nd hand headlines of those that admit going off the telegraph review @VanityFair 3/x

It seems reading a book isn’t required to have a fully formed opinion about it, so they lit their torches and joined the pile on... 4/x

The baying mob spans society... we have Katy, whose bio simply states ‘feminist’, who describes it as a whole book of anti-trans trope before admitting she hasn’t read it. It seems reading it really isn’t required to know what its inside 5/x

And Michael, who works in property, who I imagine didn’t get a pre-release copy but still managed to tell Nick Coren he was wrong & should defer to those with lived in experience transphobia. The mob will never tell you to defer to women’s lived in experiences. 6/x

There is ex Lib Dem MP Lynne who doesn’t need to read the book to know it is viscous and unnecessary. One would hope politicians would know better than to be swept along with such groupthink... but alas...7/x

There is @nevillesouthall, ex footballer,who blocked me because I challenged his assertion that this book (which I assume he hasn’t read, he ignored the question) shows who the wicked witch is. A man calling a woman a wicked witch for the content of a book he hasn’t read. 8/x

If you joined them, congratulations, go back 300 years and you would have been standing there jeering as she burnt. You have shown yourselves to be easily led with no evidence. 9/x

Maybe work on that because whenever we look back at atrocities in history that relied on normal people doing horrific things, we scratch our heads and wonder how such people were led to such a place... and rather terrifyingly we can now witness it in action. 10/x

Normal people who don’t think they actually need to read a book to form an opinion before joining a pile on.

Normal people trying to compell speech:
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Normal people who see an I

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Normal people joining a RIP hashtag for a woman who simply has opinions that differ from them.
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And amongst this, where are thinkers and the writers? Not out here condemning the pitchforks because they know too well how easily it could be them, so they twitch their curtains as cowards as the flaming torches wander past their doors.
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I have never read a @jk_rowling book, children’s fantasy & adult crime are not my preferred genres,but I shall be buying this one. Maybe I’ll come to the conclusion it is transphobic,maybe not, but at least it will be an informed opinion,if only such things fashionable again 15/x

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