For those who value freedom of speech, Scotland is not a promising place to live.
The country just passed the Hate Crimes and Policing Act, which makes it a criminal offense to incite hatred through threatening or abusive conduct based on characteristics such as age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity. do.
A famous writer has put the new law to the test herself, daring the Scottish Government to arrest her for breaking new laws against ‘hate speech’.
“The new law highlights the dangers of excluding women and girls from solo opportunities, the grotesque unfairness of allowing men to compete in women’s sports, and the reality and immutability of sports. “Biological sex is being heavily exploited by activists trying to silence us,” JK Rowling tweeted on X.
She ended her tweet with a challenge.
“If what I have written here constitutes a crime under the terms of the new law, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” she wrote.
Her tweets have been declared not criminal by Police Scotland, and she has vowed to keep a close eye on other non-celebrity individuals to ensure they are not punished for the same expression of free speech.
Glenn Beck was impressed.
“What J.K. Rowling is going through is a window into what they’re trying to do here. But she doesn’t back down,” Glenn said, adding that one of her “Harry Potter” novels Since then, I have quoted a passage that I believe should apply here.
“Do you know how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? They all realize that one day, among their many victims, there will always be someone who will rise up and fight back. I am.”
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