JK Rowling has a message for all the Trigglypuffs and Social Juicebox Wankers seeking to shut down the right of others to disagree.
The full context of the quote; she despises Donald Trump, but would not deny him the right to be heard because that’s what tyrants do.
“I find almost everything that Mr. Trump says objectionable. I consider him offensive and bigoted. But he has my full support to come to my country and be offensive and bigoted there.”
“His freedom to speak protects my freedom to call him a bigot,” Rowling continued. “His freedom guarantees mine. Unless we take that absolute position, without caveats or apologies, we have set foot upon a road with only one destination. If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justification.”
Lest anyone miss the deeper context of her statement, she is referring to attempts and suggestions that the Billionaire Buffoon not be allowed to set foot in the UK.
Bully for her. Hopefully when the largest part of the UK goes completely batshit crazy she will still have her native Scotland to retreat to (not that the kingdom of the thistle doesn’t have its own problems with lunacy).
A plainer explanation of the First Amendment you will not find.
Good on Joan. I don’t agree with her on much when it comes to politics, but on this we are agreed.
Unfortunately, her native Scotland is pretty much the West Coast of the U.K. It’s a running joke in the other constituent countries that it’s a shame other members of the U.K. can’t vote on independence referendums, otherwise Scotland would have been independent decades ago, because the rest of the U.K. is kind of tired of them.
I agree with JK Rowling.
As a Scot I can tell you that Scotland has gone from an oppressive religious right country to a Looney Tune Socialist left in a historical blink of an eye. Not pretty.
@ 1, I think the Uk is already there with being batshit crazy
She came from a nation that throws people in jail for quoting Churchill on moslems & gives more jail time for saying true things on a street car than gang raping indigenous little white girls.