Published: September 11, 2025
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe

@jk_rowling Do you include Hitler in that?

@tzippylavi Many who scream 'fascist' at opponents fully endorse his methods. ''The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence." Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf.

@jk_rowling It’s dark here. Not in sunlight but in meaning. I cannot figure out why the death of a perfect stranger who said many things I disagreed with has shaken me. Not sure why the reflections of a complete stranger in Scotland who writes wonderful fiction should matter to me. Not sure

@SeanTrapani You're an empathetic human being who doesn't need to agree with everything another living, breathing human being believed to feel a profound loss when his life is ripped from him by an act of violence.

@jk_rowling Do you think free speech should have any limits or is it truly absolute?

@IawrenceCapital My personal red line is probably Alex Jones and Sandy Hook. In lying about what happened to those children he knowingly incited retribution against grieving families. He exacerbated those parents' trauma in service of his own brand. I find that indefensible.

@jk_rowling This passage presents itself as a set of universal moral maxims, but in reality, it is just a collection of oversimplifications disguised as wisdom. Claiming that believing in freedom of speech for yourself, but not for others, makes you illiberal ignores that freedom of speech

@jk_rowling The media is biggest problem in America

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@jk_rowling @Sir_SourLemon Correct except for the last. Every historical revolution is based on political violence including the America revolution. Kindly consider reviewing history and thinking 🤔

@jk_rowling @SamanthaPfaff I reject a negative implication of the term “fundamentalism.” Fundamentalism means clinging to certain fundamental ideals, and they could be good ones. I was reading The Fundamentals (from which we get the term) just a week ago and they’re good, actually.

@jk_rowling Anyone who promotes racism, homophobia isn't practicing free speech they are encouraging division and hate . The right think they have the right to tell other people how to live , they try and stop trans people from having their human rights upheld . They try and force

@jk_rowling That’s one reason why people are anti Zionist. Zionists are anti free speech and free thought. Zionists are totalitarian. No demographic is tearing away democracy more than Zionists.

@jk_rowling You’re a disgrace to authorship. You don’t have the license to lecture people what to say when you haven’t had the courage to say a single word on the mass murder of people in Gaza. You’re an absolute disgrace.

@jk_rowling Europe summed up -

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@jk_rowling Are you out of your god damn stupid dumb ass mind

@jk_rowling I wish you went into politics

@jk_rowling @therealroseanne There’s an entire segment of the population living in a propaganda bubble, thanks to the mainstream media, which has become a major force in confirming the leftist paradigms that are shoved down the throats of students by teachers and professors. The days long ago, when we

@jk_rowling Well said.

@jk_rowling J.K. Rowling brilliantly outlines the sliding scale from illiberalism to terrorism. From a Polish perspective, it reads like a warning we’ve known for decades. Because we’ve lived through it all. We’ve seen the censor’s scissors, the commissar’s re-education, the policeman’s

@jk_rowling We have people who are screaming for death and violence for their political opponents, till they realize their political opponents are in their own camps. many would suggest you are one of these types of people.

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@jk_rowling Per fortuna esiste la coerenza... Tutte le possibilità hanno spazio di esistere: se tagli le alternative, non resta libertà, ma un loop chiuso che implode... e guarda dove siamo arrivati.. La vera coerenza è lasciare che il campo resti aperto. Se la libertà vale

@jk_rowling It's so funny that MAGA likes and reposts this post without realizing they are all of the above.

@jk_rowling The most valid tweet in recent times

@jk_rowling thanks for describing all right wingers!

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@jk_rowling J.K. Eight years ago, I admitted to everyone I knew that everything I thought previously was wrong, and I apologized for it. It was one of the most freeing decisions of my life. I think you need to do the same. Ignore ego. Acknowledge your contribution, and move forward.

@jk_rowling @elonmusk Be careful, the leftist lunatics are also after you. Hire some protection

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@jk_rowling Accurate. The West is at risk of backsliding from the Enlightenment, and returning to a darker age; one where the economy was zero-sum, ideas were dangerous, orthodoxy was law and violence was the principal too for dispute.

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@jk_rowling free speech cuts both ways

@jk_rowling The Constitution guarantees our right to free speech, but it doesn’t guarantee there won’t be consequences for that right.

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