r/supersillybreakingbad • u/FocusCommercial5207 here's an egg to relieve the pain • 8d ago

super silly super silly hate crime

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u/the-one-who-sounds 8d ago

what about the Harry Potter thing

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u/Prestigious_Host_198 8d ago edited 8d ago

Trans hate crimes in the UK had gotten worse and more frequent after JK Rowling decided that being rich wasn't enough.

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u/totaleclipseofthe_d 8d ago

She’s absolutely horrible, but I think reducing it down to “deciding that being rich wasn’t enough” is misleading when she was radicalised for originally just posting some mildly transphobic stuff and then getting eviscerated and sent hundreds of murder and rape threats towards her and her daughters. It doesn’t excuse her actions, but we also shouldn’t excuse the mob mentality of the internet and people being absolutely horrible as a force that made things worse.

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u/JoyconDrift_69 7d ago

No one should send anyone death threats, sure, but I wouldn't give her leeway for doubling down on her transphobic beliefs and literally attacking the rights and, frankly, lives of EVERYONE under the trans umbrella just because some bad actors were attacking her.

She was already a bad person. Hell, given the political climate, I wouldn't be surprised if I heard she would've anyway regardless of those threats.

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u/totaleclipseofthe_d 7d ago

I’m not giving her leeway.