[anonms-coward]

I think most of the people being able to speak against the mob opinion have many things in common. They are rich, famous, and are generally hard to cancel. Carmack, JKRowling and maybe even pinker are in this category. For example, one writer got fired just for tweeting "I stand with JK Rowling". (https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scots-author-sacked-bac...) . Many professors have been suspended just for not speaking tone in tone with the popular opinion. If Pinker wasn't this famous, he might have been fired by now.

[beckyb]

The problem with JKR in particular, is that she is "speaking out" against a group of people who are extremely oppressed, and using outdated / debunked info to do so.

Because of who she is, and her massive audience, this does real damage.

A person's right to even exist in society shouldn't be up for debate.

[anonms-coward]

> A person's right to even exist in society shouldn't be up for debate.

But she isn't saying anything like that. No where has she ever said that trans people don't have a right to exist.

> Because of who she is, and her massive audience, this does real damage.

But this is the only reason she is able to speak at all. Another author got fired just for tweeting that she supported JKR. If JKR wasn't so famous, she would have been fired and cancelled long ago.

> against a group of people who are extremely oppressed, and using outdated / debunked info to do so

I have no expertise on the information JKR and her opponents are tweeting, but I agree she might be incorrect in several. But is it so wrong for her as a woman to say that she doesn't feel comfortable if any man who self identifies as a woman is allowed access to women spaces, because this is what a lot of her opponents reply with. Please note that women also have been oppressed for not centuries, but millennium.

[beervirus]

No one is debating whether trans people have the right to exist.

[beckyb]

JKR is in fact doing that, everyday. Basically, if trans people aren't free to even use the bathroom in public that matches their gender identities, then we can't live in public society.

[beervirus]

LMAO the right to use a public restroom of your choice == the right to exist.

[commandlinefan]

And ironically, the people on the other side of the debate are working as hard as they can to find ways to deny conservatives the actual, literal right to exist.