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JK Rowling condemns Lilly Wachowski's claim she's 'funding trans genocide' (www.thepinknews.com)
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The Sense8 creator said: “JK Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support Harry Potter, you’re supporting trans genocide.

“The money that goes into you enjoying these products, a portion of that money goes to JK Rowling and that money goes into her funding anti-trans legislation all over the world.”

Wachowski suggested that trans allies should boycott work that benefitted Rowling financially, including HBO’s upcoming TV adaptation of the Harry Potter series.

“In the same way that if you are against Elon Musk, you boycott or don’t buy Tesla; and if you’re against global warming/climate change, you try not to buy as much gas, you try to mitigate your use of these products,” she said.

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Sure, if you can replace it with something better. But if you can't do that, and you can just kill off something from your childhood that you enjoyed, that makes you a rather cold person, and then what's the point? If we haven't got compassion and love, what's left? Just coldness for those we hate? That's no way to live.

Do I regret that a book series written by a bigot got so big? Well, yeah. But we didn't know it at the time. I'm not going to apologise for something that caught my imagination 25 years ago.

Also, people aren't about just one issue. Boy George is gay, and he supports the genocide in Gaza. What does that mean? It just means one rich guy who used to make good music is a POS. Doesn't mean everyone who likes Karma Chameleon supports genocide. Though, I find myself not choosing to play it as much. Likewise, I don't read the Harry Potter books constantly. I just won't apologise for the past. I don't live there anymore.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    if you can replace it with something better

    Pratchett.

    The Tiffany Aching books specifically if you want a direct replacement (but better), the rest of his work if you want more.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Pratchett

    Sounds like a good recommendation, actually, from what I could skim on DDG. Hopefully it catches on.

    I actually meant to read Discworld books at one point many years ago, but was always overwhelmed at the size of the universe.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I actually meant to read Discworld books at one point many years ago, but was always overwhelmed at the size of the universe.

    Just pick one (preferably a one-off or one at the start of a series, thought at most you'll miss some character background and lore if you pick one in the middle) that looks good to you and start reading, they're all good.

    The very first ones are a bit different than the rest, especially the first two (more genre parody than Discworld proper) as he was still finding his footing, but they're still good.

    Guards! Guards!, Small Gods, Wyrd Sisters (technically Equal Rites is the first Witches book, but it's still a transitional one), Pyramids, Mort, or Sorcery (still a transitional one, but quite a good one) are good starting points.

    Or if you want something with less books just pick up the Bromeliad, aka The Nome Trilogy; just three books, and a whole different setting, but also a classic. Not exactly the same style as the Discworld books, but they'll give you an idea of how you like his writing (probably more than the first two Discworld books, really).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago*

    If you read much as a kid you knew back then the books weren't well written. The stories were fun but never has Jo been a competent writer. The books are riddled with plot holes and inconsistent themes and straight up retcons because she didn't keep notes and is a hack writer. But there are actually good books with cohesive themes and messages that aren't rambling messes filled with inconsistent ideals and casually racist ignorance. The Harry Potter books are not well written, at all. She contradicts herself constantly, breaks her own world building, and half forms ideas that she abandons halfway through each book. Seriously, read any actually good author, Rowling writes like a fucking middle schooler. I have in fact read shit written by middle schoolers that was more cohesive than Jo's attempts. And this is all coming from a person that grew up with Harry, reading the books as they came out. Hell they helped me figure I was queer. But they're not well written, at all, and Jo is a monster and bigot and is responsible for killing trans kids. Be better.

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