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[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

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[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

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.

[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

@OcrazioCornPop Yes

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Targeting hospitals is a war crime (Iran).
Using hospitals to keep weapons, hide terrorists, smuggle hostages, build HQs, and launch attacks is a war crime (Hamas).

Falsely accusing Israel of targeting hospitals is a violation of journalistic ethics.

Hope that clears things up.

[Daniel @VoteLewko]

A test for the world. When Israel bombs a hospital being used by Hamas, Israel is condemned. When Israel doesn't even bomb a hospital, (Palestinian terrorists did), Israel is still condemned. So let's see who says what about Iran firing a missile at a Beer Sheba hospital. One which unlike Gaza hospitals isn't a military outpost. It's a hospital. And they fired at it.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Randi Weingarten is a Marxist...

She is the President of the American Federation of Teachers.

1 of 2 national teachers unions.

Her salary is $565,000.

99.9% of her union’s political donations go to Dems.

The teacher unions are just another Dem $ laundering scheme.

Simple.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

How about that! The guy riding the motorcycle goes home to a 2 million dollar house. Tony Seruga tracked down his cell phone Data and learned some interesting facts!

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

It's pretty hilarious that the Left is no longer arguing that California belongs to the "indigenous" tribes that lived there hundreds of years ago. Now they say it's the rightful property of Mexico because it was claimed by the Spanish empire. I guess we all believe in the right of conquest now. No more land acknowledgments. That's progress.

[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

@Riley_Gaines_ Well said Riley.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

To all the people that insisted Imane Khelif was a woman because his passport said so,

You were wrong. We were right.

Sincerely,
People with functioning eyes and a shred of honesty

[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

@libsoftiktok Great question

[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

@IvankaNews_ Yes Ma'am

[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

@CNviolations Poor guy

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Only in America can a young black man stab and kill a young white man, spin the narrative to play the victim and make hundreds of thousands of dollars from it.

Race baiting is profitable.

Sickening.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

"[J.K. Rowling] believes... that if you're born a man, you can't ever be a woman."

Labour MP Carolyn Harris: "Biologically, she's correct, but... when you introduce this level of hate into a debate, rationality goes out of the window."

Which do you find more irrational? The statement of biological facts, or the belief that males can become females? 🤔

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Democrat Washington State Senator Jamie Pedersen

“Kids over 13 have the complete right to make their own decisions about their mental health care. Parents don't have a right to have notice. They don't have a right to have consent about that”

“If they're old enough to get pregnant, they're old enough to make their own decisions about what happens with their bodies. And parents do not have the right to change that or make a different decision or be notified in advance.”

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

BAM !!!

[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

@JesusSavesUs777 All the time

And all the time...

[Kip Metzer @MetzerKip]

This

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

You folks in the media are so awful, lazy, and radical.  

The Trump administration is trying to get its hands around a truly massive bureaucracy that has never been comprehensively and thoroughly investigated for fraud, waste, and abuse.  Hundreds of departments and agencies, thousands of offices and divisions throughout the country, millions of employees, contractors, grantees, etc.  And the media sit on their fat collective asses, looking for mistakes here and there, and highlight them for the purpose of undermining the entire effort. You're a shameless disgrace.  
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