@NewWorldHominin @canteach she has amassed 14k followers in such a short time bcause thankfully many smart people in this world will not tolerate a tyrannical mob of half-wits trying to suppress free speech and critical thinking
Never forget this brave American citizen that turned down getting a Covid vaccine and called out Fauci right to his face on camera.
I still want to buy this man a beer!
BREAKING: The first 300 Ridglan beagles touched grass for the first time today.
They stepped outside and looked up at the sun.
Many are playful. Some are scared. All are learning the world can be safe.
Today, they are free.
He said "I get asked about you all the time" so I told him what to say next time. "Of course women deserve single sex spaces, of course they deserve fair sports, of course children shouldn't be mutilated in gender clinics."
@Glinner@ardalsfolly Itโs what cowardly creatures do-take shots at who they think are easy targets, because they are so despicably weak themselves. Heโs a crawler to the gang of bullies, he is insignificant.Could have kept his mouth shut - but knows he gets attention from his association with you.
Every word powerful! โ .a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it wasโ .. The always brilliant @jk_rowling โฅ๏ธ
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
@1dor Dorothy, no nursing home has the right to administer medication to your mother without your consent -the wrong medication or wrong mixtures of meds can be lethal. They have no legal right to go ahead without your consent. This is an absolute disgrace. @MichealMartinTD
We now know that highly violative surgeries were carried out on small children without medical justification. A whistleblower with knowledge of the scandal says they were carried out โfor profitโ. I could be jailed for not paying my TV licence, why arenโt Gardai investigating?
Iโm thinking of opening a cafe and bookshop in the centre of Dublin, close to Leinster House, for whistleblowers, troublemakers and those interested in changing Ireland for the better. Thoughts?
Crony reply guys are going to lose their minds