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You don't need to stop doing any of this.
Just pirate all of it.
That's what I did.
Even better: pirate it, and whatever it would have cost, donate that amount to an LGBTQ+ charity.
That's still boosting the cultural impact of her work. In some cases piracy increases total sales.
It’s basically impossible to be perfect, pirating the work stops the money from going to jk Rowling which therefore stops it from going to anti trans groups.
Shopping at Home Depot hurts trans people Using Amazon hurts trans people Shopping at basically any big box store hurts trans people
They are a heavily oppressed group and you aren’t able to live your life perfectly so don’t sweat pirating a game
Yeah but it's not like this is the best literature has to offer, nobody would really lose anything by just not reading a very mid saga.
It’s something people like… and for many people it’s a comfort movie/book
Like there are just so many worse things in the world that worrying about the cultural impact of pirating a movie/book/game is such a waste of time.
Asking people to stop giving her money is 1 thing but you are accomplishing nothing except making people feel like they are completely powerless if you tell them to not even talk about HP
Idk, sounds like they should develop as people then
Oh yes pray tell, who are the under developed people according to you?
What should we do with them?
Let's go full steam ahead, do they have rights?
The movies are good, but the story is also the weakest link. You could swap the story and maintain everything else and it'd probably be just as good if not better.
I will argue there is something very different between Rowling and Bezos.
Both are rich beyond measure and can fund lobbying efforts indefinitely. But Rowling has something that Bezos doesn't have, cultural capital. When she says something, people listen, from journalists to citizens to lawmakers, and not just because she's rich.
Truth is social capital matters. A lot. Which is good because it's the only thing we, the people, can hope to have that most billionaires don't. But a corollary of this statement is that giving social capital to Rowling is, in fact, worse than giving actual capital to Bezos, all else being equal.
Now I can't tell you how to live your life and we all have our vices. Just giving food for thought.
This ain’t about giving capital to Rowling this is about how even pirating Rowlings work is considered bad
But who out there is actually changing their mind over anything Rowling has said?
Right wing people ignore her because her works (especially her newer works) have a bunch of token diversity characters and left wing people ignore her because of her anti trans agenda
It's impossible to be perfect so you won't even try?
Sure, a lot of other things indirectly harm queers, but it's pretty fucking clear that support for HP, which includes maintaining it's cultural relevance, is directly increasing the influence, wealth, and power of a single person who's utilizing a lot of their time and energy on specifically trans hate.
Not hard to drop a shitty YA series, accept that it was in the past and there was no harm in enjoying it, but that continued support is pretty directly harmful.
I don't get everyone and their eternal "but it was my childhood" crap. I look back on the content I enjoyed in the worst parts of my life fondly, but I've moved on to enjoying other things? I don't need to keep a series from 20 years ago as a current force in the cultural zeitgeist.
(In relation to the current media landscape as a whole) Why people just consume the same content, the same characters, or the same IP repeatedly, as they continue existing in a more and more profit-driven way is beyond me.
That and if you're not already avoiding big box stores as much as probable, that's kinda on you. People have to eat, and often, work has to be done, and those monopolies often give you literally no other practical choice. HP is just a single series among hundreds and thousands of YA magical boy series.
Aye. I still have all my first edition books from when I was in 6th grade on and I sure ain't giving those up, but all the movies live on my server that were obtained from the high seas. I never bought their merch anyway, I'd rather have my band merch.
That's what I told a friend who asked if she should read enders game. Get it from the library or steal it. Orson Scott Card doesn't deserve your money because he's a shitty person.
I would agree, but the wizard game where the good guys put down a slave uprising isnt just antisemitic and transphobic, even worse, its mid.
how can you enjoy it though? like, don't you get disgusted knowing you're consuming the product of a transphobe? fuckin gross
The old conundrum of separating the art from the artist. Personally, I think as long as you aren't giving them any money, have at it.
a painting by a very famous Austrian
Sounds like he had a very promising future in the arts!
schwarzenegger is a famous austrian. your painter there was an infamous shitbag. know the difference!
lol love it when hitler fans out themselves
Kartoffel, kartoffel.
he wasn't german. and it's a specious comparison, when one comes from a maggoty hate infested shithole, the other from any normal farm.
What do you think a potato is called in Austria?
EDIT: I stand corrected, a potato is more commonly called Erdapfel in Austria, or "earth apple." That makes it even better: Kartoffel, Erdapfel.
Cute, you don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.
It's shit, from a shit vendor. GET BETTER STANDARDS
Either way, you'd be lying if u said his artwork his shit.
the producer was a shitbag. that's THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THIS ARGUMENT. wake up and get better standards.
It's bad
No, frankly viewing anything I try to do for leisure through that lens sounds exhausting and depressing. Just do what you can to avoid financially supporting it, stealing it is fine.
I don't even particularly like Harry Potter either