Humza Yousaf has received more complaints under Scotland's new hate crime bill than JK Rowling, it was claimed today. In 2020, Yousaf made a speech about 'often being the only non-white person in the room'.
Rowling's posts calling trans women 'men' will not have mark put against them. Nor will video of Humza Yousaf suggesting too many people in power were white. READ MORE:JK Rowling's tweets have not been recorded as a 'non-crime hate incident' , police have said, after the Harry Potter author dared officers to arrest her for referring to trans women as 'men' under Scotland's new hate crime laws.
The Scottish Government has previously said deliberately misgendering someone - referring to someone by pronouns other than those that they prefer - would not be criminalised under the new legislation. 'Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.'
A spokesperson told the Herald newspaper: 'The circumstances have been assessed and will not be recorded as a Non-Crime Hate Incident.' Last year, he said identifying as a 'non-binary' person - someone who does not see themselves as exclusively male or female - would be 'as valid as choosing to identify as a cat'.
A protest against the new hate crime laws took place outside the Scottish Parliament on April 1, the day the legislation came into effect She claimed the force was 'revising its policy...on the hoof' in order to avoid recording incidents against Rowling and Mr Yousaf. An insider told the Sun: 'A lot of those complaints were about Humza Yousaf, on the same complaint about his parliamentary rant. JK Rowling has had some, but not as many as Humza Yousaf.'
Mr Yousaf was seeking to highlight how few people of colour are in positions of power in Scotland's parliament and government - but far-right activists stripped the clip of context and sought to suggest he was calling for a reduction in the number of white people in Scotland. But police say the video was assessed against race hate legislation in the past and Mr Yousaf's comments were not judged to have been criminal.
Trans newsreader India Willoughby accused Police Scotland of having 'star dust' in their eyes for failing to take action against JK Rowling over a string of tweets READ MORE: Elon Musk backs JK Rowling over new hate crime law in Scotland after cops receive thousands of complaints Advertisement But on Tuesday, Rowling responded to the decision, writing online: 'If they go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I'll repeat that woman's words and they can charge us both at once.'
Meanwhile, Scotland's justice minister has been forced to admit time-wasting complaints are being made to police under the new hate crime laws - including a false complaint made under her name. Siobhian Brown says 'misinformation and hysteria' have led to wrongful assumptions about the legislation - adding that one of the 4,000 complaints made to Police Scotland since it came into effect was submitted by someone pretending to be her.
Some of the posts made by JK Rowling on X/Twitter on transgender women, which police say did not meet the criminal threshold when assessed under Scotland's new hate crime laws But the striker has since said he will not be at the Scottish Premiership match and will instead be away with his family for a 'couple of days'.
Amid concerns that freedom of speech will be impinged by the law, Mr Yousaf has insisted absolutely protects people in their freedom of expression' while guarding 'people from a rising tide of hatred that we've seen far too often in our society'. To fall foul of the law, you would have to behave in a manner that a 'reasonable person' would consider to be threatening or abusive – or, in the case of racial hatred, insulting.
For a less serious offence – tried by a sheriff sitting without a jury – they could be jailed for a year, or fined, or both.Yes – it is a defence to show your behaviour or commun-ication was 'reasonable' in the circumstances. Stirring up hatred on religious grounds is an offence, but the threats or abuse 'would have to be truly outrageous before the criminal law was interested', according to legal expert Professor Adam Tomkins, a former Tory MSP.
But it has said that all complaints about alleged hate crimes will be investigated – so if a spectator contacted police about a joke by Frankie Boyle, for example, it would be taken seriously.
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