Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
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Don't be one of the bad guys who attack us that my friend Molly talked about.
My wife Samar and I need you.🫂🙏🏻
No I'd rather dig my eyes out with a rusty spoon.
You're capable of deciding your friends yourself, you don't need to be told to cut ties with people who might be fully supportive of you.
-You, a totally sane person
What worries me is the "part of my childhood" phrase. Who tf has Hitler's paintings in their childhood?
The art can’t be separated from the person.
That's the first step. Second: donate to orgs helping transgender ppl get great healthcare/support
The problem is that she's british. And the british elite are known to abuse their power.
If they are terrible person, do not support their art. It's plain and simple. Are you brave enough to stand for something?
Art is spoiled by the artist being a terrible evil failure of a human.
Why celebrate the art of bad people?
If you don't care about the issues just say that.
Who you support IS a choice, and if you ignore an artist who is a bad person, you are saying you are okay with it.
It's really simple.
https://jkrwf.org/check-eligibility/
Or this to create email addresses:
https://temp-mail.org/en/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fake-data-a-form-filler-y/gchcfdihakkhjgfmokemfeembfokkajj?hl=en
https://bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com/post/3lprvhpmjec2m
Read one of a gazillion different YA series with magical schools or colleges
Watch Little Witch Academy
Play Fire Emblem Three Houses
Turns out, having a whole brain helps to identify dogshit that goes over your head when you're a tiny child & everything seems impressive just because it exists at all.
https://bsky.app/profile/sentaisystem.bsky.social/post/3lpwgfutflc2u
Saw no mention of this elsewhere, so maybe unique to me? But I boycott JK Rawlings & have never evidenced the slightest interest in anything Hogwarts.
Oh sorry, I forgot that black mold is just the design of her wallpaper. Silly me.
Can we do both? Perhaps not.
We exist in a capitalist system which inherently subjugates many. Think farm workers and food.
If you really want to counteract this bullshit, help me get my 🌈 business back up and basic survival 🙏🏾👇🏾
When we are talking about persecution of any kind, there's no way to stay neutral. Silence supports the abuse...
People need to understand the gravity of the situation, and choose a side.
HP was my childhood and i gave it up – i understand why some people can't (logically speaking), i just wish the fandom wasn't as ever present (because it makes me very uncomfortable)
I know, no ethical consumption under capitalism. But you have to buy gas. You have to eat. Do you have to support kids books based on hatred?
Not even watched a movie
I do call it a bigot brew whenever I use it though.
it’s good for writing boilerplate code, summarising documentation, and some protein design stuff, I find it incredibly useful at work
a lot of people are insulated from good use cases though, and they generally experience it through AI slop, or have it forced on them in devices
and generating text from prompts uses minimal energy, it’s training where it is intensive, and again, this is a build clean energy rather than degrowth issue
protein models are freely deposited and open source for things like this anyway for bio AI
the water thing is largely wrong (data centres are closed loop often)
energy and carbon, just build nuclear and solar
Why do people have to promote so much hate?(Rowling)
All types of kids read her books. Now it is a conundrum.
Harry Potter isn't important to me, BTW, lest you think I'm arguing from nostalgia. I've never read the books nor seen the movies, I just know other folks who have.
The money you spend on HP merch directly funds legal attacks on trans people. You are crowd funding transphobia. Either you're okay with that or you're not.
So should we ban books by any author with bad views? Libraries buy those too. If buying HP is hate, then so is stocking it. I support trans rights—but we can’t fight hate with censorship disguised as virtue. You can’t be anti-book ban and pro book purity tests.
You use tech, media, and services tied to far worse actions than Rowling’s views. If moral purity is your standard, cancel it all—Apple, Amazon, Disney, etc. I support trans rights, but buying a book isn’t hate. Let’s fight real harm, not symbols that feel safe to target.
Money she is using to successfully remove trans rights in my country right now.
the source of Rowling's capacity for harm is her money, yes, but the source of her money is her cultural stranglehold
fan stuff is just free advertising for her
(the AAA games industry's imminent crash will force Warner Bros to cancel it, on top of Rowlings bigotry)
Diana Wynne Jones (especially Chrestomanci series and Howl's Moving Castle)
Eva Ibbotson
And ally
Terry Pratchett
Add more people pls, people!
Some "Sword in the Stone" and a butt load of Roald Dahl (who is the good kind of antisemite, being as he's dead)
It doesn't matter that it's your favorite muffin recipe. Don't buy the fucking muffins
“Stop giving money to a bigot who is explicit that she’s using it to fund a hate campaign if you don’t hate the people that campaign is directed at” is pretty obvious advice
If you're still giving her money, you're a fucking cunt
If you must read and watch garbage, you can download it for free off the interwebs. Sometimes the stories you grew up with are utter shit, but as a grown up, you can realize this and learn better stories
you'd eat there, continuously, and get mad at people who refused you for making you feel bad. Move the fuck on like we all did
Lol getting yelled at by leftists and the right at the same time almost makes you want to just not bother but, oh well
gatekeeping saved me from funding transphobia. 🤯🤨🤪
All I am saying is, that we need to keep the artist and the work apart. I get the money thing. Don't fund J.K. that is a good choice. But don't bash readers that enjoy the work.
2. by supporting harry potter you are literally contributing to a genocide. it doesn't MATTER if you hate trans people, we don't care. what matters is that you actively support a genocide against them..
Should I not have butterbeer when I visit Universal?
Feel free to no buy anymore branded stuff yourself, that is fine
Nice try though. And also - again - in real life I do...I don't post about it, like you and the OP does.
There isn't a strict definition.
And if that happens good luck with the people who actually believe JK Rowling is right...
You are only hurting yourself
You're not earning that title if you can't stop consuming her media.
If you find that hurtful, good.
If you can separate the art from the artist and excuse their crimes, well that's on you and you deserve to be shunned for it.
Boycott it all.
I'm not sure that's what it is, but it's really odd
guess that was the right move in hindsight. cant even be bothered to watch the movies i once was a big fan of as a kid (even if im hypothetically pirating it) until jk rowling buys the farm.
Guys this is women’s breastfeeding stations.
Still, it’s harder to criticize something if you haven’t read it. Just don’t buy new to do so.