"This is patently false and highly-dangerous to trans folk. Dorman did not die a few days after defending Chappelle - which was in late August of 2019- and her tweets literally debunk this"

I'm not sure how you read this as saying something other than that my mistake about the timeline of the tweets and Dorman's suicide is highly dangerous to trans folk. I think it's perfectly fair to call this hyperbole.

Also, I don't think Mwatuangi is a she.

"Highly dangerous" has a well understood meaning which does not extend to misinterpreting a line in a comedy special.

And no, I didn't claim that the people who suggested that Daphne Dorman kill herself (nasty comments doesn't quite cut it) represetned the whole trans community. That may have been how it came across to you, in which case I'm happy to clarify that this wasn't what I meant at all. Nobody else has interpreted it this way.

Also, I totally disagree with your claim that Rowling refuses to engage in discussion. In fact I can't imagine how you can make such a claim. The article she worte about her thoughts on trans issues (linked in the article), which is what kicked the whole situation into overdrive (before that I think the whole controversy was literally over a couple of tweets and her "liking" somebody else's tweet accidentaly), was a reasonable, compassionate, explanation of her feelings and concerns.

It has been repeatedly and deliberately misquoted, lied about and disingenuously interpreted. Even here, your suggestion that she's said "any and all distress caused by her statements, and any and all disgreements with her views were nothing more than vicious and unwarranted bullying" is categorically false. She's never said anything even close to this.

You might perfectly reasonably disagree with some of the things she writes. You might think that her fears are overblown. All of this is fine. But the level of abuse and hatred and lying is absolutely inexcusable.

Death threats against her and her family, lies, misogynistic abuse, people walking through the streets with signs saying "burn in hell JK Rowling". You act as if she's supposed to endure this for over a year and still feel as if she can have a reasonable conversation, when not one single prominent trans person (with the heavily caveated exception of Contrapoints) has ever even tried to push back against that abuse.

I can completely understand how Rowling might feel (I'm not saying she does feel this way, obviously I don't know her) that the extremism represents a significant proportion of the trans community when nobody steps up and says "hey guys, do you think maybe we're taking this waaaay too far?"

Speaking of misrepresentation, there is absolutely no trans hate in the comments here, and if there were, I'd be the very first person pushing back, as I have many other times. I absolutely do not tolerate transphobia or homophobia or any other form of bigotry when I see it. Especially in my comments. But conversation isn't synonymous with "trans hate".

Lastly, this ridiculous argument that "none of them have been cancelled" needs to crawl into a bush and die. These are human beings who have been subjected to levels of abuse that most people can't really imagine (by the way, it's gross that literally everybody who argues that "they haven't been cancelled" brings up their money. Mwatuangi does the same thing later in our conversation). Yes, they're rich. They're also still people with feelings just like everybody else.

The objection to cancel culture or "call out culture" or whatever you want to call this legitimised bullying, isn't limited to people losing their jobs. It's about how wrong it is to make people live in fear because they said something you disagree with. It's about how disproportionate people's attacks are when they encounter a difference of opinion.

Genuine discussion would indeed be wonderful. But let's not pretend that it's only people like Rowling or even Chappelle who make it difficult to achieve.