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Critics slam Tim Hortons Harry Potter promotion as un-Canadian, anti-trans (CBC) (www.cbc.ca)

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Swift backlash from 2SLGBTQ+ community over series author J.K. Rowling

Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2026 1:10 PM EDT

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's such a shame. Harry Potter was a great series of books with great stories and characters that many millenials grew up with.

It's a shame its author is such a fucking cunt and ruined the whole franchise for everybody.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Hp was loved, by myself, too. But even then, I'm not sure I'd ever thought of hp as great, just "comfortably decent enough".

But yeah, jkr is a fucking monster.

[–] mrbn@lemmy.ca 42 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Tim Horton's hasn't been Canadian (or good) for a long time now, so I'm not surprised that they are being shitty.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 4 points 9 hours ago

last week I went to a Tims cause I hadn't been in awhile and just wanted a large double double and 10 timbits. I felt like death after eating those timbits. god damn horrible. Coffee hadn't improved at all either. Was just muddy sugar water.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly, I had Tim's a week or so back and it was way better than I remember it being. Had a breakfast wrap and it was well constructed, stuffed, and tasted good.

Then not more than a day or two later, someone brought Tim's donuts to work, and those too were better than I remembered.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Is this an ad

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Nope, just a genuine lived experience. My partner and I usually go to A&W for breakfast stuff, and this was just an unusual circumstance. Since it just happened in my recent memory, and I saw the comment above, I thought I'd chime in. You know, the kind of thing that social platforms were designed for.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

How dare someone describe a personal experience that doesn't match the narrative!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Found Doug Ford’s account!

They’re better than 5 years ago for sure, but still not as good as 15 years ago.

If you’re doing fast food A&W Canada is basically the best, but thankfully there’s a new generation of competition all around.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

My partner and I generally do A&W for on the road breakfast, but this was an unusual morning and Tim's was way more convenient this time. And then, for the donuts, I mean I didn't pay for them.

I actually can't compare to 15 years ago personally.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 hours ago

Tim Hortons is anti-canadian, full stop.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It's pretty on brand tho. Harry Potter is essentially a half baked story with bad tasting holiday/ethnic sprinkles

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

Tim Horton's is disgusting and inedible. They are dead to me.

[–] happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 12 hours ago

You'd think somebody in upper management would be smart enough to push back - actually I should just stop there. Nobody in upper management thinks. They just go where the money is, and rely on time to fix whatever damaged the brand's reputation.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The last movie is 15 years old ! Seriously can we forget about it ?

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

HBO Max is producing a series - one season per book. Iirc, season one already aired.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The terf wrote a new book or two on the IP, maybe there was a movie recently or something.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Not even a terf at this point, just a full blown trad fasc in actions and effect. Her words are extremist, disgusting, and horrific.. and her effective outcomes are just fascist at this point.

[–] Vedlt@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think they are remaking the movies or there is a show being produced now, I vaguely recall hearing something along those lines.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes that is right I think I hear about a TV show as well, I hope it flops horribly and the media decides the IP is worthless now.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

When most of your primary original cast refuses to work with you because you're an evil person.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I will not being purchasing anything from Tim Hortons for the duration of this promotion

At least they're honest about their morals.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

I haven't bought anything from them in ages. I can't even remember the last time I stepped into one and ordered food.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Tim Hortons is now dead to me I did enjoy eating the occasional doughnut but that is it no more.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

If I wasn't already doing that I could join you, I just found it comical that in their announcement of a boycott they promised to come back without any change.

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

So many people so incapable of separating art from artist. Tons of artists are horrible people whom no one should interact with. If we can only care about the art of flawless people who have all the right beliefs and acceptable thoughts on all topics then we might as well start burning all of the books and movies now.

"That's not the socially accepted thing to say right now! You're supposed to say 'Fuck Harry Potter anyway!' to signal that you're a good person. Anyone who doesn't follow the herd to show their virtue must be a bad person. I will down vote you! You are bad! Down voting you will show the rest of the herd that I am good."

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh come on. That's so dishonest and disgusting to continue to spread that distorted lukewarm rhetoric. She's a literal billionaire, actively personally platforming anti trans rights and condoning hate and violence.

This is so far past separating art from artists even several years ago and you know it.

She hates trans people so much that she's making life worse for cis people and women, too. I would call her a politician, but she's a billionaire using that money to put up ads, start programs, spread misinformation on a global scale, and has ties to Epstein and Israel.

She's literally an evil person and supporting her is morally indefensible.

So get the fuck up out of here with that "so many people are INCAPABLE of being rational" bullshit. That's inflammatory nonsense rhetoric. Before you next time, do any level of research on the topic other than suckling on jkr's twisted pr posts directly and then coming on here and repeating a shitty right wing political talking points.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Are you sure you're separating the art from the artist correctly if you believe buying these doughnuts is appreciating the art and not enriching the artist?

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Yes. You can absolutely hate a person and still have an appreciation for art that person has created. The angst about JK Rowling in particular is an easy public performance. It requires no real effort to say "Yes, I hate her too, she bad!"

On the other hand it takes an awful lot of effort to research everyone involved with all of the media you consume to make sure you're not enriching anyone who holds similar views. So you almost certainly don't put in effort to make sure you don't enrich anyone with shitty views, because it's not something you genuinely care deeply enough about for it to be worth changing your life and habits and putting in so much work. You just want to be able to say "See, I'm one of the good ones and fuck the bad ones."

That's the difference between separating an artist from their art and performative virtue signaling. I have no problem supporting art that I genuinely love that isn't made by flawless, divine beings. If I find out the people are shit I'm willing to accept that and not like the person, but that doesn't change my enjoyment of the art itself. The art is not the person.

If I take my car to a mechanic who does a wonderful job fixing it up and the car now runs like a dream come true, and then I find out he stabbed someone once, I'm not going to suddenly start hating what a good job he did professionally. That was still a good job. Me appreciating that isn't condoning or supporting stabbing folk. I won't feel the need to loudly proclaim that he's awful and I hate that I went to him and I'd take it all back to show you and other people what a goody good person I am. Because I don't care what you think. You're irrelevant. I'm absolutely fine with idiots thinking I'm a dick. I'm an honest one. Most of you are full of shit and putting on social theater. I find that far more disgusting than being an honest dick.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's a lot of words to avoid explaining how buying these doughnuts is appreciating the art and not enriching the artist, and how separating the artist from the art applies here.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry that words are difficult for you.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately your problem is that I understood your words too well. How else would I be able to tell that you didn't respond to what I said at all? If I had a poor understanding of words, I'd see all your big words and how many of them there were and think "Wow, this guy must eb correct".

So, since you were the one to fail to respond to what was asked in the first place, the question is which words I used were so incomprehensible that you ended up spending 20 minutes typing up something that didn't apply? Was it "correctly"? Maybe "doughnuts" since it's spelled in a regional way?

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The bulk of the words were pointing out that a part of being able to separate an artist from their art is not caring if enjoying their art led to a financial benefit for the person you dislike. I enjoy some music made by serial adulterers. I've enjoyed movies that include actors who are generally known to be complete pieces of shit to most humans they interact with. I'm not researching everything about the lives and views of everyone involved with every piece of media I enjoy. And it's very possible for awful people to make wonderful things. I'm not going to stop enjoying those things because of that, even if I strongly dislike the artist as a person.

tl;dr: I don't fucking care if she gets a penny because I buy a dozen donuts. She has a mountain of money. You're not financially harming a billionaire by not eating a donut.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The question was about how you see buying these doughnuts as appreciating the art more than supporting the artist, not how much you care about giving the artist a penny.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So many words, and nothing of value.

JK Rowling has, in the course of her transphobia arc, engaged in Holocaust revisionism, sexual harassment, and overt racism.

You can't separate shit from fuck, when the money you're throwing around is directly being used to harm others.

Read another fucking book, you sheltered little loser

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago

Lazy copy/paste:

I find it ironic that the people supposedly doing good by hating her are the ones in here spitting bile at others. Not even others who say a single good word about the woman. I’d say you’re acting like awful people, but I don’t think you’re acting. That’s likely why you need to virtue signal so hard.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao JK Rowling actively funds queer hate groups and this directly puts money in her wallet. Maybe save separating the art from the artist when their dead and their families aren't using the money to put fascists all over the world in power.

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm sure many artists and actors in things you financially support hold the same views and make similar donations, and that you don't bother to dig deeply into every one of them to be sure they don't. You're only bothering to hate on the one who's loudest and easiest to single out. It's not you standing for anything other than jumping on the bandwagon. Performative virtue signaling so everyone sees how much you care and how good a person you are.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

It's either all or nothing. Anyone who imperfectly tries to make the world a better place is just virtue signaling.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Like what? Since you know so much about me after all, you must be able to name one thing I would support. Unlike you, who is actually defending a known pos. But nah, you know everything, right?

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Of course I'm not some crazed stalker of you in particular. But as a human being who consumes books, music, TV shows, and movies, given the current large cultural rift and your deep, genuine values I'm sure your detailed research into everyone involved with all media you consume has led to you finding loads of people with awful personal beliefs who aren't often featured in big flashy news articles.

If you're not simply virtue signaling I'm sure it would be very simple for you to whip out a few dozen of those names to help everyone know more awful people who we should be sure to ensure we're not financially supporting with our media consumption habits.

Also... no, dear. I never said anything good about JK Rowling. She's a sack of shit. Loads of artists are horrible people. It's nothing new. If you watch a thing and enjoy it and then find out one of it's creators is a sack of shit do you instantly hate that thing you'd just been enjoying? Retroactively change your opinion on the art itself? It's performative. That's all it is. And it's becoming tiresome as hell.

[–] Foxer@lemmy.ca -3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. You can love harry potter without liking JK in the slightest, there are two different things. And you don't get to ruin other people's enjoyment of a franchise just because you're having a fight with the author. The whole thing is kind of silly

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The second you are promoting it is where the problem lies, like how can you not see that? And how the fuck is it ruining if I simply point out she's a huge hateful piece of shit? If that makes it tough to enjoy, boo fucking hoo, you have morals at odds with your wants, find a way to deal with it.

[–] Foxer@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 hours ago

I hate to break it to you but it's stunning number of authors and directors and actors are huge pieces of shit. They're not promoting her they're promoting the work.

By most accounts Martin Luther King was a terrible person but you can still appreciate the message he had with regards to race and still think his speech was incredible

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I find it ironic that the people supposedly doing good by hating her are the ones in here spitting bile at others. Not even others who say a single good word about the woman. I'd say you're acting like awful people, but I don't think you're acting. That's likely why you need to virtue signal so hard.