Someone doesn't have to outright tell you they want you dead to make the same impact, they rely on dogwhistes, plausible deniability, and "just asking questions". Whittling down our support, spreading lies, misinformation, and doubt of our rights to exist, and victimizing herself is still coming to the same conclusion, that we shouldn't be allowed to exist and are a danger to the general public.
They especially love to abuse any patience we have, pretending to know absolutely nothing while barging into topics completely unrelated to themselves and suddenly being so interested in our rights to exist while seemingly doing absolutely zero research of their own. It comes off as extremely suspicious when people demand we carry the burden of informing them, instead of doing the most basic of research before barging in.
This mentality is literally toxic. You will never gather support for your position if your answer to everyone is "NOT MY JOB, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH" (but not on COVID remember) because only progressive white women believe this to be an acceptable answer. Everyone else thinks you're an asshole.
But also consider this, we literally learned recently that the BBC is a hive of transphobic genocide that does nothing but publish articles about how genociding all trans people is a good thing that must be done as soon as possible. So when you tell someone to "DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH" one place they might start is the BBC. And now they're in favor of trans genocide, all because you were too lazy to give them the supposedly easily accessible information on what Rowling said. We're told the same about the media writ large, so where is someone supposed to go to start their research? We're never told.
Further toxic is this: "pretending to know absolutely nothing while barging into topics completely unrelated to themselves and suddenly being so interested" which is literally something you on the social justice "left" demand constantly. A person is centering you, wanting to know about you, wanting to know about your lived experiences, deferring to your knowledge, etc. And what do you do? Chastise and shame them for this, telling them it's not a space they're allowed in because they're different from you.
So, yes, the burden of informing people of
your opinion is in fact on you and will always be on you. You can't handwave this by declaring "THERE IS NO DEBATE, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH" and think it will shift people to your position outside of ecosystems you already control.
Now, with all that in mind, let's return to the first paragraph here. They say that Rowling's various statements lead to the conclusion that she believes "we shouldn't be allowed to exist" and why do they have to "do the math" on this to read between the lines and "dogwhistles"? Because if you take Rowling's actual public statements you get things like:
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269407862234775552And:
If you could come inside my head and understand what I feel when I read about a trans woman dying at the hands of a violent man, you’d find solidarity and kinship. I have a visceral sense of the terror in which those trans women will have spent their last seconds on earth, because I too have known moments of blind fear when I realised that the only thing keeping me alive was the shaky self-restraint of my attacker.
I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others, but are vulnerable for all the reasons I’ve outlined. Trans people need and deserve protection. Like women, they’re most likely to be killed by sexual partners. Trans women who work in the sex industry, particularly trans women of colour, are at particular risk. Like every other domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor I know, I feel nothing but empathy and solidarity with trans women who’ve been abused by men.
So I want trans women to be safe.
And:
It would be so much easier to tweet the approved hashtags – because of course trans rights are human rights and of course trans lives matter – scoop up the woke cookies and bask in a virtue-signalling afterglow.
No, most people aren't going to see the insidious plan of Rowling's at work here and having red flags go up and warning signals go off to let them know that this is about literally murdering trans people until they no longer exist. That's why you have to explain it to them and make what's so obvious to you clear to others.