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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/television@piefed.social
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[–] 17 points 7 months ago* (9 children)

You think it’s ethical to attack Rowling by destroying her work and crippling her funding

Yes, it is ethical to boycott a work that monetarily directly benefits a billionaire bigot, and if you don’t get that I’m not sure how else to explain it. Joanne lining a bunch of doe eyed kids up in front of her doesn’t change how much harm she’ll do with that money.

‘Just fix the political system instead’ is an asinine response to a group of people who are on fire and watching people hand money to the bigot at the gas station.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Instead, the people on fire would rather boo the gas attendants for doing their jobs at the gas station while they sit on their ass and burn.

    That'll show the bigot! I'm sure that afterwards they'll mop up the ashes themselves!

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

    Who the hell is bothering anyone for working at a theater showing the movie? That’s weirdo behavior. Boycotting the freak after your rights isn’t.

    If you’re describing the trans community as sitting on their asses right now because they’re also taking a dump on Joanne every time the opportunity presents itself, you frankly have a distorted view of what is happening on the ground and how much energy it takes to say “Joanne is a bigot and sucks shit”.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Yes, there are weirdoes who do go after everyone associated with that which they boycott. And it should be shunned as weirdo behaviour, agreed.

    I'm not seeing a trans community here, but a small group of individuals who believe themselves righteous, charging in the wrong direction. My sight of the happenings is limited as i am an outsider peering through whatever window is available. And this window shows me actors harassed for daring to work on this project or separately, the black actor getting death threats for daring to play Snape as a black actor. That is weirdo behaviour.

    You may think you're coming after Rowling's money, but are you really? Do you really think this might not end up as time wasted when the focus could have been on the other, more direct aspects of her hate campaign?

    Series and movies have failed when they couldn't enrapture the audience. If this series sucks, it will fail without the ruckus. Instead, if it captivates the audience, this attention will only end up making it even more successful than it would have been. That's why I think this fight is pointless and you're wasting effort. No idea if it's wrong, but it's what I think about it.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I’m not seeing a trans community here, but a small group of individuals who believe themselves righteous, charging in the wrong direction

    I don’t really know any trans people that still fuck with HP. They all think Joanne is a fucking bigot, because she’s successfully campaigned away the rights of trans people in the UK.

    You may think you’re coming after Rowling’s money, but are you really?

    Do you really not understand that when you give money to a property owned by a billionaire, they get some of that money? Any money you don’t give them is objectively less money they have. That’s why they’re so, so incredibly mad when people boycott. If it didn’t work they wouldn’t care if you did it.

    Instead, if it captivates the audience, this attention will only end up making it even more successful than it would have been

    Somehow I don’t think you’re going to find ‘shut up about transphobia or you’ll make it worse’ to be an argument that resonates with many trans people.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago

    What you don't get is that a few millions less won't matter if she's dead set on pouring all of it against trans people. Zealots will dump everything they have into something they believe in religiously. And she's just one (disposable) individual. Even by some chance she stops, someone else will pop up. This is just playing whack-a-mole.

    Rowling is just a believer. But who pitted her, who's taking her money, who's going to go after the next sucker and the next after that? You just don't get it that your target is wrong and whoever's driving you to act rabidly against each other ain't your friend.

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