jk rowling is a terf and a holocaust denier
Joanne Rowling.
Don't use her preferred name. The cunt wants to take that right away from others, don't give her any exemption.
Her other pseudonym is Robert Galbraith, which is... fascinating?
she supports nazi, and funds anti-trans laws in the uk.
Piracy if you absolutely must.
It always blows my mind how much of a heel JKR is. All billionaires are bastards, but you have to be among the worst people on earth to use your billions to be a high profile bigot.
Piracy and staying away from popular public spaces to discuss it. Discuss it in private with your friends who know to pirate it. But if you're on the show's subreddit, you're helping bring attention to a wider audience, which helps the show.
Just don't. Let it go and move on. The entire purpose of this post is to say that even if you pirate it, watch it alone, and never speak of it, it is still unethical.
People love to think of themselves as an ally to the lgbt community, but when it reaches the difficulty of not watching a tv show (or game) from a transphobe using the proceeds to fund hate, that's simply too much.
I can see a way
Even sailing the open seas is better for HBO/JKR than just boycotting. Every casual conversation, favorable post, fan art, merch buy, etc. keeps it in the zeitgeist and keeps the money machine rolling forward.
Pirating something like HP just to watch it alone, never discuss it, and never interact with the IP is at best a total waste of your time when there's so much other content out there not propping up TERFs.
I’m gonna pirate it just to delete it over and over again
ETA: Anyone know how to pipe a torrent to /dev/null?
Yeah it’s better to forget and let it go for 10-20 years.
Let the hype die and poison her business ventures so she stops raking in cash from this.
I liked Harry Potter as a kid. My wife was obsessed with it. But we both don’t want our money funding trans hate.
Pirating something like HP just to watch it alone, never discuss it, and never interact with the IP is at best a total waste of your time when there’s so much other content out there not propping up TERFs.
that's how i consume most of my TV. TV in general is a total waste of time.
I'm so glad I have Americans around to lecture me daily on the morality of pop culture whilst they simultaneously accelerate extinction-level events and start new wars that fuck the cost of living for the rest of us.
You think those that are lecturing about the idiot raging against trans and others are the same ones that are running the country into the ground?
I'm glad there's red Herring fallacies so that people on the internet can retort without rationality.
you think this view is unique to the US?
something tells me there are intelligent and decent people in every country. and it is a worldwide franchise, hardly unique to the US.
You are trying to start fights where there is no reason to start one. They are literally agreeing with you here, and still you are being an asshole about it.
The people talking abour piracy as if this is just a monetary battle. Its not. With each piece of content we consume we are changed. What content you consume has influence on what you think, what you say, what you do. By choosing to consume content, even if no money changes hands, is still consenting to be changed by content sourced from a person with hate in their heart.
I do not think it healthy to consume content made by hateful people.
There are other options to consume, and potentially even, maybe the time spent consuming harry potter would be better placed meditating and introspecting to become a better person outside of additional influences, or even interacting and sharing experiences and insights with family and friends.
Choose love, reject hate. Money is a secondaey medium.
Ok, so, I have a few problems with this take.
I do not think it healthy to consume content made by hateful people.
First, I question the very premise. That consuming otherwise benign content is somehow "not [...] healthy" if the creater is themselves hateful, whether or not that hate is present in their content. A) by what do you mean it is unhealthy? For your mind? Your eternal soul? What? B) If the content does not display any of the specific hatred of their creator, by what means would that hatred effect me at all? Psychically?
Second, let's assume the premise is true. Tell me then, how would you ever avoid this unhealthy situation in your life? Sure you could avoid the openly hateful creators, but how would you ever know who is secretly hateful? Many a creator of beloved works, has turned out to be an asshole or a bigot. And many of those were only revealed as such after those works became beloved. Surely, many more were also created by hateful people who were not and may never be publically revealed as such. Given you have concluded that the content and monetary support is not all that matters, but also the internal character of the creator, how do you know your health isn't be constantly compromised by consuming work by people you don't know are actually hateful in some way.
Third, it seems kind of a moot point anyway in this case. Rowling only started revealing her transphobia in 2019. By that point the entire novel series, the entire film adaptation series, a spin off play and companion book, the first two of three spinoff films, and any number of video games, toys, and other merchandise had all been released and consumed by billions. The vast majority of our generation has consumed a ton Harry Potter media in many forms before her bigotry was on full display. I personally read most of the books over and over as a kid. I gotta tell you, if my health was damaged because she was secretly a hateful bitch at heart, then that damage is done.
I get wanting to take a moral highground, being disgusted by the association, and just wanting to distance yourself from Rowling and leave it behind. I truly get that and think it is entirely justified and valid. But don't project some sort of damage onto people who don't do the same, or attribute some sort of complicit immorality to them because they don't take the same stance as you. That's where I strongly disagree.
valid points on the books/movies but this new series will directly fund transphobia and bigotry.
It's a cash grab and an attempt to distance the original cast, all of whom viciously disagree with Rowlings bigotry.
Joyless, souless propaganda and funds drive. If you were such a dedicated potter fan, why would want to see its corpse puppeted to pay for hate?
Sure you could avoid the openly hateful creators, but how would you ever know who is secretly hateful?
You don't know what you don't know. Nobody should be blamed for liking HP while they were unaware of Rowling's bigotry and how she funds hate groups.
But once you do know, you now have agency and responsibility. Absentminded consumption of content is not consequence-free, the information landscape you inhabit changes you. Do you ever catch yourself using a word more often after hearing your favorite YouTuber use it? That's just one small perceptible example of what OP means.
This is why it's important for articles like this to inform and remind people to be critical viewers, to be skeptical about what they watch, who they follow.
All science is built on the backs of the “content” created by generations upon generations of our predecessors, many of whom were far from saintly.
Schrödinger was a pedophile, but his equations are some of the most important and beautiful equations in physics.
Newton was an asshole, but his contributions to math and science are unavoidable in any STEM field.
To blanket disregard content simply because it was authored by a bad person is not a valid stance at all, but also, it is quite literally the hateful option since you are asserting your hostility towards a person and even to anything remotely related to them. That is the definition of hatred, not love.
I don’t have a horse in this race. Maybe it is beneficial to boycott the consumption of Harry Potter media in general. But you are wrong to assert that content created by a hateful person is fundamentally unhealthy to consume.
If you're paying for HBO for any reason, you've already given JK more money than any pirate ever will.
It may blow some minds, you can sidestep the moral dilemma by not signing any subscription service.
People act like they would die if they just don't watch it.
Not really sure who this is even for. Most people who were excited for Harry Potter shit the first time round are in their 40s. The author has fallen into a rabbit-hole of right-wing nut-baggery. The movies did a decent job and weren't really that long ago. It's not like some 70s movie where everyone is clearly flying on strings.
It's the kind of thing I expect two seasons to be shat out on Netflix or Amazon or one of the ad funded services, and then everyone forgets about it and agrees not to do it again.
I just don't know what HBO are doing in this. I normally associate them with high quality shows and a streaming service that isn't available in the UK. It just doesn't feel like something they'd be doing. Maybe they've just fallen that far.
Yeah, I really don't understand who the target demographic is for this? It's not like they are doing anything interesting with the universe, it's just the same story again.
They could have done anything with this but they are doing this. Do a different time period or something.
Unethical consumption it is then!
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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on a vulnerable minority.
Ahem🏴☠️
But that does drive engagement and discussion and all the things that make it popular, so just don’t.
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