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Boycott this evil cunt! Don’t watch the movies, don’t watch the new tv series, don’t buy or read the books. I know these books influenced and inspired many people but we all need to let them go. If even one penny helps this bitch it’s too much.
There's also piracy, for those who enjoy the material but don't want to support the evil shitstain of an author.
Agreed 🏴☠️
Idk, maybe you shouldn't be enshrining material from a jackass. Other IP exists.
I'm not sure what you mean by enshrining, but in any case, don't give that maggot a single cent, whether or not you partake in the content with her name on it.
Consuming the content still grants it cultural strength and influence.
That's true - best practice would absolutely be to completely abstain from it. Some people are die-hard about that shit though, so for those who do for some reason need a fix periodically, do so in a way that mitigates the negative impact as much as possibly - namely by finding ways to do things for free that would otherwise send income to JKR to be used for her evil bullshit.
As someone who watches crappy home-counties daytime British TV, my taste is to watch it and overthink it. Harry Potter is crap enough that I will watch it to mock it via piracy. It doesn't mean that I don't complain at anyone i know for playing that shitty video game.
But why? Why is it so incredibly difficult for you to stop consuming that particular piece of entertainment? There is so much other entertainment in the world, most of it better even.
I don't recall implying it was difficult for me to stop: my comment wasn't directed at myself. I read the books when I was in school back in 2007 - iirc there wasn't a controversy surrounding the author back then, or if there was it was all over my head. Highschool me wasn't really paying attention to current events.
I've seen some of the movies since then, but again, if any bigotry was publicly known back then, it was over my head.
At some point, her PR disaster made it into my field of view, and I haven't engaged with the franchise since. That said, there are die-hard fans of HP, so I make the same pitch to them as I did here: If want to consume the material, do so via piracy to protect against supporting the author.
HP to me was only ever some light fantasy - the value was more in the accessibility than the quality. As you mentioned, there are probably hundreds of similar stories out there... nothing about HP was better than the competition except for the marketing. Super easy to 'quit' and not look back.
I don't understand the super-fans, but I could say the same about anything I don't have a personal interest in. People lose their shit over sports: I don't get it. But, my personal disinterest doesn't mean it'd be easy for everyone to just shrug off if the NFL or something became associated with white supremacy or some shit. If that happened, I'd make a similar pitch about pirating game footage / not buying merch, etc.
Completely abstaining would 100% be better, but people won't.
While I do agree that we shouldn't support her, boycotting really won't do anything in this case. She's a billionaire. If she stopped getting any money right this moment, she'd still have plenty left to keep hurting people for the rest of her life, and then some. We need better laws to protect the vulnerable. That's basically the only way aside from taking away her and other billionaires' wealth and redistributing it
She may already have a lot of money, but clearly she is looking for more. Why not deny her that? And the influence it brings?
Is she though? From the article:
I'm not saying don't boycott her. I'm just pointing out that alone won't do much, if anything, to prevent her from hurting people.
You think that means she's not trying to make more money? The HBO show, all the merchandise, themes parks, video games, and all the rest doesn't count?
True, though IMO these things would come her way anyway because people like the franchise and corpos take advantage of it, and many people don't know she's a bigot.
But my original point still stands. You could take all that away today, and she'd still be able to hurt people with her wealth until she croaks. She's that incredibly wealthy. Just one more reason why wealth should be capped.
Nobody is arguing that. The point is she wants more and we can do something about that. So we should.