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Joanne Rowling.

Don't use her preferred name. The cunt wants to take that right away from others, don't give her any exemption.

she supports nazi, and funds anti-trans laws in the uk.

Also Harry Potter suck dicks omg. I liked the book when i was 8 years old. If you're an adult and still into that shit i'm begging you to read literally any other book

Piracy and staying away from popular public spaces to discuss it. Discuss it in private with your friends who know to pirate it. But if you're on the show's subreddit, you're helping bring attention to a wider audience, which helps the show.

Just don't. Let it go and move on. The entire purpose of this post is to say that even if you pirate it, watch it alone, and never speak of it, it is still unethical.

Even sailing the open seas is better for HBO/JKR than just boycotting. Every casual conversation, favorable post, fan art, merch buy, etc. keeps it in the zeitgeist and keeps the money machine rolling forward.

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.

You think those that are lecturing about the idiot raging against trans and others are the same ones that are running the country into the ground?

I'm glad there's red Herring fallacies so that people on the internet can retort without rationality.

you think this view is unique to the US?

something tells me there are intelligent and decent people in every country. and it is a worldwide franchise, hardly unique to the US.

You are trying to start fights where there is no reason to start one. They are literally agreeing with you here, and still you are being an asshole about it.

People act like they would die if they just don't watch it.

And then you'll talk to less tech-savvy people about it, and they'll FOMO themselves into getting HBO.

Congratulations, you're doing marketing for JK!

There's no reason to engage with anything Harry Potter anymore. There's plenty of less problematic fantasy stories.

Ok, so, I have a few problems with this take.

I do not think it healthy to consume content made by hateful people.

First, I question the very premise. That consuming otherwise benign content is somehow "not [...] healthy" if the creater is themselves hateful, whether or not that hate is present in their content. A) by what do you mean it is unhealthy? For your mind? Your eternal soul? What? B) If the content does not display any of the specific hatred of their creator, by what means would that hatred effect me at all? Psychically?

Second, let's assume the premise is true. Tell me then, how would you ever avoid this unhealthy situation in your life? Sure you could avoid the openly hateful creators, but how would you ever know who is secretly hateful? Many a creator of beloved works, has turned out to be an asshole or a bigot. And many of those were only revealed as such after those works became beloved. Surely, many more were also created by hateful people who were not and may never be publically revealed as such. Given you have concluded that the content and monetary support is not all that matters, but also the internal character of the creator, how do you know your health isn't be constantly compromised by consuming work by people you don't know are actually hateful in some way.

Third, it seems kind of a moot point anyway in this case. Rowling only started revealing her transphobia in 2019. By that point the entire novel series, the entire film adaptation series, a spin off play and companion book, the first two of three spinoff films, and any number of video games, toys, and other merchandise had all been released and consumed by billions. The vast majority of our generation has consumed a ton Harry Potter media in many forms before her bigotry was on full display. I personally read most of the books over and over as a kid. I gotta tell you, if my health was damaged because she was secretly a hateful bitch at heart, then that damage is done.

I get wanting to take a moral highground, being disgusted by the association, and just wanting to distance yourself from Rowling and leave it behind. I truly get that and think it is entirely justified and valid. But don't project some sort of damage onto people who don't do the same, or attribute some sort of complicit immorality to them because they don't take the same stance as you. That's where I strongly disagree.

All science is built on the backs of the “content” created by generations upon generations of our predecessors, many of whom were far from saintly.

Schrödinger was a pedophile, but his equations are some of the most important and beautiful equations in physics.

Newton was an asshole, but his contributions to math and science are unavoidable in any STEM field.

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.

I don’t have a horse in this race. Maybe it is beneficial to boycott the consumption of Harry Potter media in general. But you are wrong to assert that content created by a hateful person is fundamentally unhealthy to consume.

If you're paying for HBO for any reason, you've already given JK more money than any pirate ever will.

Yeah, I really don't understand who the target demographic is for this? It's not like they are doing anything interesting with the universe, it's just the same story again.

They could have done anything with this but they are doing this. Do a different time period or something.

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