Police Scotland have been accused of parodying JK Rowling by inventing a fictional character for a hate crime event called “Jo” who’s passionate about ‘gender-critical’ campaigning and thinks transgender people should be sent to gas chambers.
At an official Police Scotland hate crime “youth engagement” event, those in attendance were given a scenario in which Jo, who believes that sex is binary, has a large social media following to espouse her views, The Telegraph reports.
The event, which was held in February and co-organised by the Scottish LGBTI Police Association and the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign group, was part of an LGBT history month series supported by Police Scotland.
Attendees were asked to consider Jo’s case, who’s described as an “online influencer” with a “large following” on social media platforms TikTok and Instagram that she’s very active on. In the scenario attendees were presented with, Jo travels around university campuses to “debate her beliefs about the LGBTI community”. The scenario further adds that Jo is often “very passionate” about her beliefs and will say things like “there are only two genders” and that there are “too many attention-seeking wannabes”.
Women’s groups and commentators online have claimed that “Jo” is an obvious parody of Ms Rowling, who is often referred to as “Jo” by her friends, and who is active on X (formerly Twitter) where she has a large following and often debates gender-related issues.
Ms Rowling has frequently come under fire in recent years for her belief that people cannot change their sex, and has received death threats as a result of her views.
Jo’s scenario concludes by stating that “Jo posted her most recent video with the caption ‘they all belong in the gas chambers’”, in a reference to transgender people. Attendees were then asked to consider whether or not Jo had committed a hate crime and if so, what action the police should take.
This comes as Scotland prepares for hate crime laws to come into force April 1, which will make “stirring up hatred” against a protected characteristic, such as sexual orientation or gender identity, an offence.
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All police are now un marxist scum in the uk and ireland.
This is incredible! Human chromosomes are immutable. Toxic woke ideologues that Scotland platformed. Are the Scottish people ok with this @&€)
No Mark; I am Scottish and deeply concerned about the woke path the administration is taking. Here we have a Moslem first minister shouting about the lack of ‘coloured’ people in high positions even though the moronic cretin is coloured (as is the Labour leader in Scotland) and 96% of the population is white; as they say you couldn’t make it up. I might just use the “hate” law against him; the evidence is there. I feel better now.
This woman is head and shoulders above the rest and that scares the hell out of them!
We are presented with a dizzying array of acronyms for a protected class. Sometimes they begin with LGBT but not always. Then we add I or Q or maybe two AAs. I’ve even seen two IIs at one point. I’m no longer sure what they all mean.
Are they all in agreement? Perhaps not. Who or whom ranks highest on this totem pole of victimhood? They have their own flag it seems, but maybe not. Again I have seen a colourful variety of flags, each one purportedly representing the aforementioned group or is it groups? It’s confusing to me and I assume it is also confusing to the fine upstanding officers of Police Scotland who now it seems have invented a new victim.
I for one would urge the powers that shouldn’t be to bang their collective heads together and agree on who , or whom we should hate or love this season.
It is not for the Scottish police to decide for us who we should hate and love. They do not have that power. There are two sexes, male and female, who can procreate. All the other alphabet stuff is only bullology, that opposes biology.
Ann became Larry and John became Mary.They got married Mary couldnt carry a baby so her husband Larry decided to carry their surrogate baby which sperm came from a black woman called Joanne who was formely Known as Jason.
Whats the problem,what dont you understand?
I GET IT VERY GOOD
She could buy and sell them all.
What would they do if Jo called for children of a given characteristic to be aborted pre-birth? Would that constitute a hate crime?
Identity politics, and its street enforcer EDI, has run amok in society. It’s clearly morally debased, so why is it being forced upon us by our institutions?
Why are we constantly being confronted with abusive concepts and the rewriting of commonly understood language and conventions? Why are doctrinaire activists being shoe-horned into business, education and sciences? Why are our workplaces being politicised? Why are our media wilfully enabling these abuses?
Something has gone very badly wrong very rapidly which is undermining public consent and risking our democracy. A visceral backlash is inevitable. Moderate politicians need to respond and stanch this relentless degradation of decent, reasonable values. Otherwise the centre cannot hold.
Josef pushka was a clear hate crime against a white irish female. He could only get 20 years as it is the maximum sentence here.Should he not have got double because it was a hate crime? 40 years?
Is a hate crime pointing out that a trans man is not a woman because he clearly has meat and two veg?
INSANE