Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie responded to opponents including the writer JK Rowling.
Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie has accused opponents of new hate crime laws of ‘performative nonsense’
The writer, already a fierce opponent of the Scottish Government’s stance on transgender rights, hit out as new powers under the Hate Crime and Public Order Act came into force on Monday. He said those spreading such “propaganda” are “seeking to not just undermine the hate crime legislation in Scotland, but are seeking to continue to ferment a divisive culture war agenda, a toxic and dangerous agenda”.
Mr Harvie claimed opponents of the change “deliberately try to pretend every expression of prejudice or just nastiness or anything offensive or hurtful is going to be criminalised”, adding: “As soon as the Act comes into force they start performatively coming out with these prejudiced, hurtful statements and saying ‘arrest me, arrest me’ in this petulant manner.“It really is performative nonsense.
“This is very clearly legislation that is well familiar in our system and the threshold for prosecution is high, and rightly so.”
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