It is not lost on me that many of those who have signed this letter have big, public platforms to get their views out. However, creatives I know from underrepresented groups in these industries are still left with no choice but to keep quiet about ongoing discrimination. In the majority-white media, and across the majority-white landscapes of many other industries, marginalised groups know the penalties they’ll probably face if they dare to speak up. They’re still keeping quiet.
Badly written article.
'Cancel culture doesn't exist, and anyone who says it does should be cancelled.'
Independent? Clearly not.
The is owned by KGB spy Alexander Lebedev
Is this an unpaid intern article day?
How cretinous the Independent has become. “Challenged” is free speech. Shut down is not.
More race baiting,freedom of speech is being curtailed by the woke crowd whom shout and screech with narcissism and when all else fails they turn to violence.
Cancel Culture is an extremely dangerous form of censorship - ideas, opinions, language must also conform to a specific dogma and no deviation is tolerated, punishment exacted. It is tyranny. In these chaotic times it's a distraction for the insane.
I don’t think you’ve read the letter. Plus - Rowling can say whatever she wants about Women’s rights. Whatever she wants.
Privileged? Like when a group of people claim they’re something they are not and then expect the rest of society to deny reality to match their demands?🤔
You need to read Twitter. You need to understand the intolerance of a lot of the gangs on here, who have such moral certitude (left & right). The cancel culture itself is vile & chooses its victim each day. The rapper sounds like she is confessing at a religious cult meeting.
'Bizzare', if after everything that happend you still find that letter bizzare, then you are part of the problem.
The Independent is a joke. A very bad joke.
The problem of cancel culture arose when the left, empowered by Critical Theory, started to frame heterodox opinions as violence. As such, competing narratives are no longer just wrong (factually), they either uphold systems of violence or advocate for such, hence are immoral.
People are being harassed for making sense. Whether you like it or not: Gender is a thing, sex is completely different thing. Yes, only biological women menstruate. If you don’t like it, too bad. We can’t bend reality to fit your delusional speech.
see how many likes that top comment got independent? Your writer is out of touch with the greater percentage of public view. Stop trying to push bullshit on the public. Cancel culture is a few hissy fit brats having a spaz cos someone has a different opinion than they do. GTFOH
Amazing: «Noname’s personal politics aside, she could teach us a thing or two about getting over the shame of being wrong.» These people are so arrogant, they don't realize what totalitarian scum they are.
I'm sure they're fine with being challenged, just not silenced and dismissed as racist, transphobic, losing their livlihoods etc etc for voicing their opinion.
ScumMedia
The truth about trans people
The key is not to raise your head above the parapet.
So they are trying to...[squints hard]....cancel 'cancel culture'? 🤔
Some good points were made in here but what is the tangible harm created by talking about stuff?!
Going by the MASSIVE support Rowling has received for her measured pronouncements on Trans issues and Women's Rights, it seems that SHE has 'cancelled' the abusive, misogynist and non-representative Trans Activists collective. Nice.
I can't tell you how many people I know are turning towards the right wing politics because of this crap.
What I've just read? Such bullshit. The Independent is a bad copy of the (already shitty) The Guardian.
Arguably worse than that cringe video of celebs singing Imagine
Fuck right off
They will eat their own eventually
Ffs no one cares what this woman said about trans people. There are more important things going on right now.
If they are in the Left that privilege doesn't matter... The moment they Say something out of the agenda then You remember they are privileged.
Rowling is a now rich elitist & will lose more HP readers. the arguments that it's easy to get a gender reassignment certificate plus trans ppl will assault women in bathrooms is asinine. the science on trans issues is evolving. trans women are women. trans men are men. stop hate
If you let us CancelRepublicans then I would be willing to tolerate a few jk rowlings. Just a few though. 😁🙏
2 words. FUCK THEM.
Have you actually read the letter? It doesn’t seem so!
No, this is your opinion. Others have a right to their own opinions. Some people don't seem to think others have this right, usually the same ones, who think their opinion is the only right one.
The new inquisition sucks. Freedom of expression will be valued when it will be absolutely lost
Anyone remember when the independent was a proper newspaper?
Damn! Darned if they do darned if they don’t. Feel sorry for them.
The independent proves they cannot handle original thought.
Yeah, it’s like when those two young athletes used their BlackPrivilege to get on TV and extract a needless apology from the Met.
Snowflakes are precious until the hit the ground and crack, then they’re not so pretty
Damned TERF loves to see her face in the papers
Lol. No. This piece proves the delusion of the mob. Cancel culture demands scalps. The signatories to this letter are among the few that can resist this call due to their power. Yet, 2 signatories turned and fled in the first few hours of publication because of cancel culture.
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