Obscene AND menacing
Rape threats? From a fellow party member? Sorry, not our department.
Joanna Cherry has condemned the “SNP hierarchy” for deserting her after she was bombarded with rape threats by a party member for her stance on gender reforms and trans rights.
There are too many scare quotes in this article. The SNP exists and it has a hierarchy so I don’t see any real reason for the “” other than leaning on one side of the scale.
At Edinburgh sheriff court Grant Karte, 30, was ordered not to contact Cherry for five years and sentenced to a community payback order under which he will be supervised for 15 months.
Cherry, 55, a QC and the MP for Edinburgh South West, said that she was “very disappointed” not to receive “the same support as other women who have suffered abuse”, describing how Karte had sent “a number of menacing and obscene private messages, including threats of sexual violence”.
We know what it’s about of course. Those other women weren’t Evil Terfs. It seems Evil Terfs deserve rape threats.
Karte sent his abusive messages on the evening of February 1 this year, the day [Cherry] was removed from the SNP front bench team at Westminster.
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Karte, who is said to have been an SNP member at the time of the threats, admitted offences under the Communications Act 2003. He has previously admitted sending Twitter messages that were “grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character”, repeatedly threatening Cherry.
So many lefty men cannot believe their luck at having a “progressive” excuse to bully and threaten women.
It’s very much how the SNP operates – you are in the Sturgeon clique or you are not. I have probably said it before, but even if Cherry was in another party, I’d expect some kind of female-solidarity message from a woman First Minister who prates on about her feminism. Cherry is however a serious rival – she’s cleverer than Sturgeon, and fairly popular outside the party as well as with the non Sturgeonites within it.
Sturgeon really has the hots for the transgender cause – she put out a video begging the young ‘uns not to quit over “transphobia” in the party. The women who have quit over the sexism in the party get no such plea.
Sturgeon is a total bullshitter but I do think her embracing of the transgender cause is sincere. She sees herself as the progressive youngish woman leader. She would love a selfie with Jacinda Ardern.
“There are too many scare quotes in this article.” That might just be to indicate when it’s a direct quote and when it isn’t. I don’t think it’s the best grammar, but it’s the sort of thing I might do if I was tightening up a quote, leaving out insults, etc.
Re #2
Yeah, there are some journalism styles (BBC, maybe?) that are very heavy with the use of quotation marks for absolutely every bit of text that is a direct quote. They struck me initially as scare quotes, but I eventually realized they were not.
I know, I get that it’s to signal “literally what was said” and so on, but it’s part of the job to realize that it can come across as scare-quoting, and find a way to get around that.