You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

JK Rowling’s transphobia casts and inescapable shadow over the new Harry Potter adaptation.

      • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s a whole different discussion about the “seperate artist and art”-argument, not wether or not I want her to get any money off of it.

        For example: EA is a garbage company but I’m a sucker for their open world formula so I have no problem pirating their games.

          • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            idk what you’re getting at specifically but I’m not pretending that it’s a perfect work of art with absolutely no flaws. Just that I can enjoy it without being constantly aware of real-world views of the author.

            • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Because JK Rowling puts her real world views in her world. As a kid, I stopped reading the books halfway through and just assumed that the House Elves and SPEW storyline would be resolved by the House Elves being freed. By setting up that would be storyline and leaving it at status quo, Rowling is endorsing race based slavery.

              There’s a lot of small story elements that can be brushed off if they stood alone, but together add up and reveal Rowling’s conservative word view. Hagrid is naturally violent, the sorting hat, there’s a whole school house for evil kids and not one of them ever breaks expectations… I could go on if I wasn’t on my phone.

              My whole reason for dropping the books halfway through was nothing ever changed. It was frustrating.

              • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Ok, and some people are able to put that aside and enjoy them anyway. If those people are pirating the content she gets no money. If those people are able to say “yeah, that part is bad/shit/wrong” then her shit beliefs aren’t being propagated.

                The people who care about this sort of stuff are already aware. The people who don’t aren’t going to be reading articles like this anyway.

                This discussion is about whether or not there are ethical ways to consume the content, not about the merits of the content itself, which is the rabbit hole you seem to be stuck in.

                We know. We aren’t defending it. We’re just saying that it is possible to get the content in ways that don’t enrich the creator’s bank account, and it is possible to consume it without going “Rowling was right”.