• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I’m sure there a plenty of people who enjoy Harry Potter, who’ve never heard of the controversy.

    And, I hope they never do. Let people enjoy things.

    Go ahead and downvote me now.

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      12 days ago

      You’re hoping for people to unknowingly support a transphobic activist? For the sake of enjoying a mediocre book series? Odd priorities.

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        12 days ago

        They’re hoping that someone can enjoy one single thing in their life without being told they’re a garbage human being for supporting “X”, or who didn’t do “Y”, or who is related to/was roommates with/worked with over the Z years the author(s) were alive.

        It’s like 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon except somebody somewhere thinks someone involved is a POS, and now you are too for liking it.

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          11 days ago

          Rowling is alive and very active, though. This isn’t a tenous connection by way of vague association, the author in question is (1) alive, (2) profits from buying their shit and (3) uses that money to make the world worse.