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Hey there, you got kicked out of the last Harry Potter thread for being negative, please don’t come here to ruin another thread.
We can enjoy Harry Potter for what is, and ignore the toxic cancel culture. JKR has some views that don’t align with yours, and many people. I don’t agree with everything she’s said either. But that doesn’t invalidate her views and personal experience, just as she can not invalidate yours.
I’ve just re-read some of her tweets to refresh myself on the matter. The initial jab was uncalled for, but the following statements were all valid opinions.
Don’t let someone who you dislike drag you down in life, and don’t spread negative comments randomly. If you don’t like JKR or HP that’s fine, but there’s no need to accuse people of being of Nazis. Looking breifly at your history, there’s a lot of negative comments on everything. I suggest you unsub from the political ragebait hate circles and filter out everything else you dislike. Make your Lemmy feed a happy place to doom scroll.
No one here, not even JKR, has ever called for the mass extermination of transgender people. Calling random Harry Potter fans Nazis is an absolute insult to every single victim of the Holocaust.
Edit, one of your first comments was calling for WW3 to exterminate Americans. That sounds like extreme violence to me, and your calling people who still like a children’s book a Nazi?
Are you forgetting the time JK Rowling accused Olympic women’s boxing champion Imane Khelif of being a man, because she isn’t white? I think there’s no excuse for racist and misogynist comments like that. I do believe Rowling was being sincere in her opinions of Imane. The problem is that Rowling genuinely cannot tell Algerian women from men, and yet still insists on subjecting the world to her opinion.
It’s possible to enjoy a piece of media and still dislike the creator. We’d have a pretty dull world if we just discarded everything made by bad people.
Regardless of your feelings on separating art and artist, that’s just nonsense.
Have you read Dostoevsky?
How much of the Criterion Collection have you watched?
Ever read Pratchett?
Been to a local theater company’s play in the past year?
There are quite literally too many games on Steam to play in a lifetime.
Etc etc etc.
I am a trans woman and am disgusted by what Rowling has become, but HP was the first novel I read as a child, and I read it maybe 7 times before all this bullshit with Rowling begun. I know HP is not objectively great, there are a lot of plot holes, and stuff, but it is still a story that made me dream and still enjoy discussing and humour about this universe. Should I really abandon all this in spite of the author?
Go ahead and separate the art from the artist. You’re still a fan of a book that demeans women for having masculine traits, engages in pro-slavery myths, doesn’t bother to represent Asian people authentically and uses an asian girl as an object for a white boy to fall in love with, engages in homophobic allegory about AIDS, uses insensitive names for black people, uses racist Irish stereotypes for comedy, plays off rape trauma as funny, mocks anti-slavery political movements, and villifies aro/ace/apla people.