It is a damning indictment of white feminism that we're finally seeing someone properly stick it to JK Rowling and it's a 25 year old Algerian woman.
There are so many people in the world who have more power than Imane Khelif. So much more. Fucking piles and piles of power laying around, doing fuck all.
And all she wanted to do was box, but she's going to stand up for herself anyway.
And once again, we will all benefit from the work of women of colour.
JKR specifically targeted Khelif, which hasn't happened in the past.
Attacking a group is different from singling out an individual. One you can prosecute, the other you can't.
Previously JKR stayed on the "right" side of the law, but this time a line was crossed.
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JKR's been slowly ramping up over the years, and lately gone really over the top.
Anyone who's tried to go after JKR has been threatened by her legal team.
But this is the first time that I know of that JKR has named one person in particular.
IIRC there is also scope under UK law for slander/defamation in addition to harassment, though I think the French case has more standing.
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French law is a mystery to me, but iirc, they were the first to have an actual Misogyny charge so could be more progressive than most
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that being said, the European Court of Human Rights suffers no fools, so even if there're issues in the French system it may still proceed.
This could get really legally interesting (and also expensive for a poor bullied billionaire)
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