The exchange came as part of the JKR moan against Iain Macwhirter's column in the Herald which pointed out that there was no anti-English feeling within the SNP. I haven't hidden names here because you can easily view the tweets on Twitter, so no point. Please don't target this user - she's obviously closed her mind to exchanges so any tweets to her would be seen as abuse (and that's the last thing we need the papers jumping on).
The blog post I refer to is this one and in it I suggest:
Anyway, here's the exchange:
She never got to read my last two tweets because she blocked me! Rather than point me to evidence, she just closed the debate down. Is this a common reaction from Unionists? I was being extremely polite and did not expect that reaction.
Wings over Scotland has a good piece on the media reaction to JK Rowling's comments. Remember, she was never mentioned in Macwhirter's column - it was she who began the exchange. But for her followers or fellow Unionists to believe that the anti-SNP rhetoric has been 'reasoned' is the real absurdity.
Unfortunately, some fantasies are so tightly woven and so tightly clung to that there can be no hope for salvation - except from a Unionist newspaper which puts on their front page an apology to the SNP and the YES movement for the paper's behaviour during indyref. Maybe then things will begin to change.
But perhaps that's just my fantasy...
"Unfortunately, some fantasies are so tightly woven and so tightly clung to that there can be no hope for salvation - except from a Unionist newspaper which puts on their front page an apology to the SNP and the YES movement for the paper's behaviour during indyref. Maybe then things will begin to change."
ReplyDeleteGood luck with that, if only. Been a "Nat", forever, never voted for any one else, I have an honours degree, from Paisley. As far as evidence goes, the weight bares heavily, on the unionists shoulders; as was plain to see during and after the referendum; see George Square.