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Harry Potter defenders: “JK Rowling just said mean words online she hasn’t actually harmed trans people!”
What JK Rowling is doing with the money:
Ok but harry potter "defenders" and jk Rowling defenders are not the same. You can appreciate the world of HP while not agreeing or supporting their shit creator.
But by consuming Harry Potter IP, you're actively putting money in her pocket, which she uses for her anti trans cause. Unless you pirate the content
I pirate all content, I see no reason to discriminate.
There hasn't been a new Harry Potter book in decades, and Fantastic Beasts basically took cyanide when Crimes of Grindelwald came out, only thing keeping this franchise alive is fanfics
The game was pretty successful financially, although it luckily wasn't at all able to stay culturally relevant and there is a new hbo show coming out soon that was even promoted by german state media.
Lots of people still watch the movies on streaming. As little as a few weeks ago, my wife suggested we should watch one of the movies. She has no particular contact with the LGBTQ+ society, and didn't know anything about JK Rowlings behaviour. I've had a few colleagues that are gay, but I never had meaningful exposure to the queer community either, until I stumbled into roller derby a decade ago.
So I assume a lot of people watch HP, not of malice, but unknowingly or with indifference to who JK Rowling is as a person
I still have people swearing to me that she "Supports the trans community" and "Donates money to pro-trans causes" and that people are "targetting her unfairly"
Sad thing is, they're being serious and arguing in what they believe is good faith. They legitimately don't realize who she is, they're too smitten by the debunked story of a homeless woman who wrote Harry Potter on old napkins.
Anecdote: As a member of the generation that grew up with HP, no one I know is supporting the IP financially. We grew up with the books and movies and that's it. This is just one of many cultural issues that's dividing the left. Cool I guess?
Edit: typos
We're pretty united against bigotry. Get with the program or stop dividing the left.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯