And that just underlines that it is much easier to simply not watch it.

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.

It's Joanne being pissed that the actors who portrayed her characters have all embraced being normal and sane human beings and refuse to have anything to do with her.

She's trying to screw them out of their royalty checks by rebooting the series.

They just know it's an easy cash grab while there are ostensibly still people obsessed with the franchise (as we know from the video game a few years ago). Adult fans in mid-careers = they have no qualms dropping $70 on a game or $12 a month on a subscription.

Her other pseudonym is Robert Galbraith, which is... fascinating?

yeah but then i have to learn and remember her name and holy shit i do not care you would not believe how much i do not care

I can get behind that. Also Just Killing Readership, and Jaundiced Kvetching Rimjob.

Do anything but the right thing just to not be told what to do

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.

I’m gonna pirate it just to delete it over and over again

ETA: Anyone know how to pipe a torrent to /dev/null?

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.

Stallman level extremism that will have no meaningful impact.

You're wasting time that could be better spent shit posting circle jerking about hating Harry Potter like a Christian Karen

Im cautous to call discoveries a form of created content, likewise those things are peer reviewed amongst a group - you could theoretically rediscover shrodingers equations without ever learning from shrodinger, but almost certainly you could never rewrite harry potter without having read harry potter - thats because on some level, hp is a reflection of jkr herself - shrodingers equations are not a reflection of shrodinger, but of reality itself (possibly!)

Didnt know he was a pedo though, yuck: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccacoffey/2022/01/24/schrdinger-pedophilia-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-box/

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.

Is an odd take to me, should we all read mein kampf? Its just content right? Is it hateful to not read mein kampf? I dont think so. I dont think i am ignorant for not having read mein kampf either. Seperate the art from the artist? I do not. You seem to think i should tolerate intolerance - but it is good, in my mind at least, to draw boundries - but by your argument, any intolerance is hatred - all nazis, pedos, other evil-doers can be tolerated at your table, but not mine, i will blanket disregard them and protect my table from their influence.

At most generous, ill look at their content through a purely analytical and guarded lense - treating it as dangerous, because i beleive it really is.

(And for clarity, im not equating mein kampf and harry potter, nor jkr and hitler, its just a clearer example to make my case with)

Schrödinger and Newton didn't create stories, they discovered laws that explain reality. Their contributions were tested repeatedly. There's nothing fundamental about Rowling's work; this is a specious comparison.

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.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1AXQ36kG258

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?

Those are completly valid problems with my statement, we might have different perspectives and wont find agreement, i accept that and still love you and anyone who chooses to consume the content. Ill also say that i was major harry potter fan in my youth, went to the book and movie releases, etc, etc. Harry potter had a special place in my heart.

1a: the distinction between mind and soul is one better discussed in person over hours and hours, ill let you choose whichever fits best within your model of reality. But as far as unhealthy i mean it in the same way as getting mcdonalds - even if you get a salad and water at mcdonalds, you are still reinforcing a pattern where mcdonalds is an acceptable place and source of food, even when we know the food isnt healthy and how they source the food isnt healthy (references to slavery, abuse, theft, environmental degredation, etc - if unfamiliar with these concerns from mcdonalds and other fast foods ill make it your homework as itd be a lot to type out and im no expert to speak authoritatively) - harry potter has a number of stereotypes and problematic areas baked into its universe - maybe eveb innocently from jkr's perspective - but weve seen what shes manifested into - and further - because of the links and references to other issues it can soften your rejection of other harmful content (for example, theres a very specific representation of goblins in harry potter, and becoming familiar with that representation, innocently, can make you desensitized to other problematic sources that move that interpretation of goblins to antisemitism, just one example of unhealthiness i talk about)

1b: this is what i reference to as underlying patterns, by watching the new hp, is a knife going to jump out of the screen and stab you? No. But you might internalize some concepts from the universe and story that later forms the seed of hatred, or sends you on a path/rabbit hole that does do damage to you. in a certain perspective im sure someone would call that psychically. Just as one double cheeseburger dosent kill you on the spot and even tastes good, in aggregate and over time and repitition, it will decrease your quality of life and if unlucky, might actually kill you.

2: have i consumed unhealthy content before? Certainly and plenty of it, further its likely ive consumed unhealthy content even today unknowingly. But i am now aware and am actively trying to manage the content i consume and being more aware of how it can influence me because i want to think and act in a certain way, and that requires dilligence, just as im dilligent about weeding my garden, just as im dilligent about going to the market for groceries and not going to mcdonalds. I didnt know jkr was hateful as a kid, but now i do. I cant and wouldnt change the past, but i can and would change the present. Its what we do now.

I hope that answers your questions, i dont know how to make my answers shorter, and typing this on the phone is exhuasting, this is a conversation better had with voice and a back and forth dialog.