Glinner on why they charged her:
I’ve been reliably informed that the tweet for which she is being charged is this one. It’s a Suffragette ribbon.
Unbelievably, they’re claiming that this is meant to be a noose.
What does a noose actually look like?
See the differences?
One, there’s that thick heavy overlapping knot, that’s built to take a lot of weight. Two, there’s the direction: the noose is at the bottom, so that the weight of the body pulls the knot tighter and strangles the victim. Three, there’s the coarse thick rope, again built to take a lot of weight. A piece of lavender ribbon with a small pinned loop at the top is not a noose. It’s not a symbol of a noose. US history actually features a lot of noose imagery used to terrorize, and it’s not whimsical or symbolic: the noose is a noose.
That was just five months ago. That’s not a pretty ribbon with a loop at the top.
David Paisley, an actor who spends most of his time online trying to destroy gay communities, tweeted earlier this week that he was taking a Twitter holiday, and in this piece he says ”I’ve been in the unfortunate position of having to speak with the police about some online activity that crossed the line in terms of my personal safety and wellbeing, and that’s been quite challenging.”
I guess by “having to speak with the police” he means “I complained to the police”?
About a lavender ribbon.
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On a completely unrelated note, look at the SNP logo. Just saying.
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But all that talk of killing “TERFs” or knocking out their teeth with a brick while posing MTG-style with guns or baseballs wrapped in barbed wire is of course perfectly kosher….
The police get to claim they’re combatting “hate crime” without having to put in the effort to deal with the more serious acts of systematic, structural misogyny and racism. With any luck, though this will backfire. I wonder if the defence will bring into evidence any Stonewall connetion and influence?
This looks like the police were secretly sick and tired of dealing with transgender issues. When an obviously bogus complaint came in, they therefore jumped right on it. “This will get some nice publicity, go to court, get thrown out with some tart words, and we’ll be back to doing our jobs,” they told each other.
Experience, however, suggests the cops are self-righteous, smug, and pleased as punch that they’re taking down a terf and helping make things more fair to a vulnerable, marginalized group. “Of course it’s a noose — the nasty bitch wants to swing ‘em around after the hanging.”