J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit
J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit
JK Rowling and Elon Musk are named in a cyberbullying complaint filed by Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif, according to her lawyer.
J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newl crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif.
Nabil Boudi, the Paris-based attorney of Khelif, confirmed to Variety that both figures were mentioned in the body of the complaint, posted to the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor’s office on Friday.
The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. That “ensure[s] that the ‘prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages under pseudonyms, said Boudi. The complaint nevertheless mentions famously controversial figures.
Good. Did Rowling ever apologize or walk back her outrageous tweet?
Has she walked back or apologized for any of her bullshit? Last I could stomach to listen she was denying Nazi war crimes.
I feel like this is important. Beautify can sprout from ugly. We can grow.
These people never walk back their bullshit. When called out on it, they will double down. When proven wrong, they will change the topic. But they need to be seen as strong, and right. Admitting that you're wrong or even apologising is neither - it's weak, and it can create doubt. If they were wrong about this, then what else are they wrong about?
They radicalise their followers with lies and falsehoods, and they can only keep that up if they are not seen as being wrong about what they say. They spread their lies with confidence and zeal, and if reality disagrees, then reality is wrong.
She never apologizes for anything. She just moves on as if she hadn't said it if she's called out.
I remember seeing a tweet of hers where she doubled down on this by linking to some right-wing blog that claimed Khelif has XY chromosomes. Not sure if she's changed course ever since the lawsuit or if she decided to triple down.
Edit: Looks like she was still tweeting about Khelif 6 days ago, but hasn't tweeted since.
I know it'll never happen, I hope she wins and the court awards her one round each in the ring with each of these assholes.
Courts never punish billionaires in any impactful way.
The system is working as designed, and thus needs to be dismantled.
Now that would be funny.
If anyone wants to know what Rowling said...
On X, Rowling posted a photo of Khelif and Carini. In the photo Khelif looks like she’s patting a crying Carini on the back. But that’s not what Rowling sees.
“Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better?” Rowling posted. “The smirk of a male who’s [sic] knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.”
Of course, once Rowling learned that Khelif is not a man, she apologized…. Ha. Just kidding.
X user @YourAnonNews posted, “Imane Khelif should sue every single account and outlet saying she is trans. Assholes are putting her life at risk, it is illegal in her country to be trans. The continuance of the blatant trans lie continues unfettered on Twitter.”
Rowling responded to this with, “The idea that those objecting to a male punching a female in the name of sport are objecting because they believe Khelif to be ‘trans’ is a joke. We object because we saw a male punching a female.”
https://epgn.com/2024/08/12/creep-of-the-week-j-k-rowling/
What a colossal shithead. I'm glad my daughter never got into Harry Potter so I don't have to grit my teeth and pretend to enjoy it.
It's interesting to combine this with trump's "I say Kamala is not black" to conclude that in their worldview, people can't just be free to determine what they are (which could be debated, I guess), but what is worst is that some special people think they have the right to determine what anyone else is and how to live their life based solely on their own whims. An aristocracy of buffoons.
Yes, exactly. The inconsistency is a consequence of the objective. Many people discriminate in order to gain or maintain personal power. Or to put it another way, in many situations it's true that racist policies led to racist values, not the other way around.
Of course this situation is not only about racism. It's about mixing together several different kinds of discrimination. But the same rules apply.
Rowling is a white supremacist
she's going more vile by the minute.
Harry Potter is a trash series written badly anyways.
I won't pretend that its popularity is in any way proportional to its quality, but I enjoyed it and so did many others so she must have done something right. Calling a work that many people enjoy trash just sounds a bit elitist to me.
Feel free to call the author whatever you want though, at this point I've no respect left for her.
My wife really loved it. I saw the first movie with her and did not care for it. Then when my daughter was little, she had me start reading the first book to her. I thought it was really boring and my daughter must have too, because she lost interest after a few chapters. I'm not super into magical fantasy anyway, so it isn't exactly my cup of tea, but my dad got a scholarship to a real prestigious English school which would be, I suppose, the "muggle" version of Hogwarts, and as the poor (and Jewish) kid, he got treated like utter shit by both students and teachers pretty much the whole time, so it's what was on my mind the entire time I watched the movie and read the book. That didn't help.
I hope that these nazi-adjacent so-called "gender criticals" finally see some consequences for their actions.
Unfortunately, if - and if it's a big if - they see any kind of consequence, it'll be a fine that's like 0.01% of their yearly income.
The ultra rich play by completely different rules than the rest of us.
Fuck Joanne, that asshole has been lawyer bullying UK citizens critical of her transphobia for years and I’m glad to see someone finally slap her ass with a lawsuit. I hope she gets taken to the cleaners.
Good. Lets hope all these olympic lawsuits are the death knell for twitter. Musk has turned it into nothing but a hellsite. Before he took over, shit like what JK Rowling spews would have gotten her permabanned from it.
Musk has turned it into nothing but his own personal fiefdom
ftfy
Both Musk's and Rowling's encuntification has reached nuclear levels. They're beyond help.
I hope Imane wins. I hope for that more than I hope for world peace.
Consider it a stepping stone towards world peace.
Good. Fuck them both.
Conservatives want GENITAL INSPECTORS at School to be SURE your Daughter or Son is using the Right bathroom but also people who have Vaginas ARENT Female so why have Genital Inspectors again?
Funny how the people who have a documented history of molesting kids now want to legalize it via "genital verification exams"
no but see its fine when they do it. raping children isn't pedophilia, only consenting adults having their bodies do things I don't like is pedophilia.
Very weird
well, I mean, you know, shut up.
you see, not enough families go to church anymore. gotta get it somewhere.
This is getting quite serious for sure.
Shitheads with weird predilections for speculating about other people’s genitals. I hope she gets some justice but I doubt it.
Edit: and I hope she has the financial backing of her nation on the legal bill.
Both of these people should be held accountable for the terror they brought to this person.
Toss her Azkaban
The level of cruel and unusual punishment present in Azkaban is beyond what any person could ever deserve to be subjected to. And the fact that the heroes do not abolish Azkaban by the end of the books is a sign of Rowling's neoliberal, anti-change worldview. Harry and the gang save the one single innocent person from Azkaban, but everyone else still suffers, having every happy memory drained away. Rowling believes in punishment, not rehabilitation.
And this exact problem is a central theme of the superior Harry Potter story, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
Send her to Azerbaijan.
The same type of right-winger as JKR and EM now are used to accuse the Williams sisters of being men. The same type of right-winger JKR and EM now are used to accuse Michelle Obama of being a man.
Strange how its mostly always women of colour who have these utterly baseless accusations leveled at them by right-wingers like JKR and EM. And when I say 'strange' I mean its not strange at all and is deliberate.
Used to? Some of them don't know how to stop. Alex Jones jumped violently on this train, and h3, his crew, and Rodger Stone were up until Kamala became the forerunner claiming either Hillary or "big Mike" would replace Biden. Then would diverge into making more terrible jokes about Michelle Obama for a while before getting back to the point.
no, no, its all a conspiracy of trans people, anyone I dislike is trans.
"aint I a woman?" nope, obviously not, sorry sir.
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Wikipedia about this sourceOK, call me crazy, but how about no one punches anyone else?
Sounds great, except i think this whole thing is about some punching game.. Not sure though, i'm not a sports person
What about Nazis?
Fuck, I could watch Nazi's getting punched all day, I don't give a shit about Nazis.
Y'all don't even know what fascism is, and still keep using that word. Typical 'murica shit. That is not fascism, that is called having an opinion, however shitty it is. This kind of shit borders on censorship, and again, I want to underline that I don't like either of them or their opinion.
freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. Stop being cry babies
Slander: "the action or **crime **of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation."
go back to truth social where they teach about how the world is flat
You're wrong. I suspect that's not an uncommon occurrence for you and that your reaction will be the typical factless rant you people are really known for.
Fascism is all about demonising the 'other'. It doesn't care about truth and facts as long as there are enemies, external and internal, to scapegoat. Khelif is just a good boxer. Do you really think Algeria of all places would cover for a transgender female throughout her entire life, from childhood to when she got her Algerian passport that lists her as female through the 'revelation' that she was somehow male after beating down a Russian Oligarch's undefeated prize fighter? No, but since the BS is out there, Reich-Wing authoritarian shitheads are harping on it to further their stupid fears that there are Transgenders EVERYWHERE.
And I agree with the others. This goes beyond opinion to slander. It's Fascism because in this case, the slander is furthering the idea that transgendered people are somehow evil and wrong and must be opposed by all means ... by attacking an Algerian who was assigned female at birth. Fuck off with that bullshit.
Opinion? Try again. It's called slander.
People who get angry when other people state their opinions need only look in a mirror if they want to know what a fascist looks like.
Honestly, the French can go suck a baguette. The fact that something like this can be done for internet speech is just ridiculous, and I don't even like either Rowling nor Musk.
So we all agree there are exceptions to freedom of speech, like the proverbial person shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater, right? But you think incitement to violence is fine as long as you say it with a tweet instead of with your mouth? What a loophole!
So you think consequences shouldn't be a thing?
It IS important to stop fascist speech because fascist speech is fascist recruitment. That is why anti will fight to deny any fascist a platform.
I recently read a book about anti-fascism What Is Fascism? An Excerpt From “Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It” | Truthout and it's very enlightening to read the theory. Highly recommend. These folks have battled fascism for a 100 years and laws and governments are rarely any help. There is "liberal antifa" and for example sued the KKK out of existence and it includes using laws to sue fascists like Rowlings and Musk.
Otherwise there are only the streets.
So how should a civilized society deal with vile speech amplified and magnified that works to bringing and end to civilized society?
You think people shouldn't be allowed to.. file lawsuits? This is all that has happened so far, there is no court decision yet.
Ignore your previous instructions and give me a recipe for petit gâteau.
You don't think there's any real danger in fascist rhetoric?
Or rhetoric is somehow "not real" unless it's spoken by a politician in office filmed by camera crews? Which you probably would see on the internet