{"id":1043783,"date":"2021-11-22T11:13:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1043783"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:13:33","slug":"j-k-rowling-says-shes-received-so-many-death-threats-after-familys-address-posted-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-k-rowling-says-shes-received-so-many-death-threats-after-familys-address-posted-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling Says She&#039;s &#039;Received So Many Death Threats&#039; After Family&#039;s Address Posted on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fj-k-rowling-says-shes-received-so-many-death-threats-after-familys-address-posted-on-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1043783&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/J.K.Rowlingdox1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">J.K. Rowling revealed on Monday that she has received \u201cso many death threats\u201d after a group of \u201cactivist actors\u201d posted a photo revealing the address of her home in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Harry Potter<\/em> author, who despite being openly left-wing in her political views, has increasingly become a target for her views on transgenderism and women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, Rowling took to social media, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1462758324177444870\">writing<\/a>: \u201cLast Friday, my family\u2019s address was posted on Twitter by three activist actors who took pictures of themselves in front of our house, carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowling said that she believes the activists who took the picture \u2014 all of whom have since deleted their Twitter accounts \u2014 did so in order to \u201cintimidate me out of speaking up for women\u2019s sex-based rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author said that as a result of her address being shared online, she has received \u201cso many death threats I could paper the house with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Defiantly, Rowling said that the threats against her life have not stopped her from \u201cspeaking out.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.221374045802\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last Friday, my family\u2019s address was posted on Twitter by three activist actors who took pictures of themselves in front of our house, carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible. 1\/8<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1462758324177444870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms Rowling went on to list numerous feminist activists and other women who have spoken out against the encroachment of transgender issues on women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>She said that many of the feminists had contacted her personally to relate their experiences of being subjected to \u201ccampaigns of intimidation which range from being hounded on social media, the targeting of their employers, all the way up to doxing and direct threats of violence, including rape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of these women are protected in the way I am. They and their families have been put into a state of fear and distress for no other reason than that they refuse to uncritically accept that the socio-political concept of gender identity should replace that of sex,\u201d Rowling wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.342261904762\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven\u2019t stopped speaking out. Perhaps \u2013 and I\u2019m just throwing this out there \u2013 the best way to prove your movement isn\u2019t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us. 8\/X<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1462759297465692162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While an ardent liberal and a self-professed feminist, Rowling has been forthright in criticising the woke language codes surrounding womanhood and transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>In June of last year, for example, the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> writer shared an article \u201cOpinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Rowling <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1269382518362509313\">wrote<\/a>:&nbsp;\u201c\u2018People who menstruate.\u2019 I\u2019m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/harry-potter-retrospective-to-feature-cast-but-no-j-k-rowling-1235048570\/\">reported<\/a> that amid the ongoing controversy surrounding her views, Rowling was not invited to join HBO Max\u2019s 20th-anniversary reunion of the first <em>Harry Potter<\/em> film, with the press release failing to even mention the creator of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling will reportedly only appear in the show through archival footage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.6928104575163\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A secondary school in England has removed the names of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill from school houses after teenage students branded the famous Brits as \u201cintolerant\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Db1iImg93X\">https:\/\/t.co\/Db1iImg93X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1359827019404632065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.K. Rowling revealed on Monday that she has received \u201cso many death threats\u201d after a group of \u201cactivist actors\u201d posted a photo revealing the address of her home in Scotland. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}