this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
78 points (96.4% liked)

Whatever

66 readers
4 users here now

A place for things that don't fit anywhere or whatever

founded 1 week ago
MODERATORS
 

Rowling has used her vast wealth, mostly accumulated through the success of her Harry Potter franchise and its many multimedia spinoffs, to personally fund legal cases aimed at diminishing rights and protections for transgender women in the U.K. and Ireland.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's a billionaire and author of ex-beloved children's series, Harry Potter.

She currently (and for YEARS now) uses a LOT of her money and influence for hateful bigoted political movements and calls it philanthropy. She targets trans and queer people with her hate, primarily, but lately, her views are becoming more and more clearly far right.

She continues to make a shit ton of money through negligence and denial of supporting her and her ideals because TV series and movies and merch and fandom continue.

She often targets individuals publicly, posting about them on social media.

Think: super hateful person, except billionaire who's actively getting richer and actively and successfully uses hundreds of millions of dollars a year to influence politics to make life worse for everybody, even those she claims to protect.

And the controversy is that the goal is to boycott her works to starve her of income and platform, but there are bots and real people who argue against that at every point of arguable logic, using ignorance, bad logic, appealing to exhaustion, weaponized negligence, and dog whistles. Every so often, she does another shitty thing and posts pop up about her, and there's always a few people who either: eternally simp for her, argue against her but whose solutions are ineffective, or just try anything to pretend it isn't a big deal.

[–] lemming@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for taking the time to explain. On the ignore list she goes!