a harry potter fan's guide to navigating pride month
a harry potter fan's guide to navigating pride month
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I sorta get this, but sorta don’t. Do you have any idea how many celebrities are abhorrent people? Movie execs? Team owners? Record company execs? Game studio execs?
I’m guessing that MOST of what we enjoy involves someone or something that’s morally wrong. Hell, most of us can live the most responsible life possible, but we’re still participating in a capitalist system. Capitalism is responsible for all kinds of horrible things, like starvation and homelessness.
Why deny myself something fun when Evil Megacorp or Reprehensible Rich Person won’t notice or care, and the boycotts seem so randomly applied?
Because she actively funnels money to hate groups using money she receives from this intellectual property, and boasts about doing so.
Oh, I know why Rowling is on the shit list. She belongs there. I was just wondering about everything else I mentioned. I don’t expect an answer from anyone, either. It’s an impossible question. Just thinking out loud.
Your premise seems to have little regard for scale. Yes people are shitty but how they allocate the resources given to them matters.
Your argument here is nebulous fictional supposed evil people are probably doing bad things which allows you the comfort of not figuring out who is doing little harm vs a lot of harm because under your framework it doesn't matter. As long as any actors real or imaginary in the system are bad you are absolved from participating in trying to alter market forces in your own small way.
To others on here there's a difference between someone who did a shitty thing or has a shitty belief and one whom is tied into a direct political action block they are funding off of the proceeds they get from licencing their intellectual property to video-games and HBO series they are producing right now. This isn't really about reading the books you already own or the DVDs you already have. It's about killing the public interest that is keeping the author relevant and making her megaphone louder and the lawyers she funds to fight Supreme Court cases to disenfranchise trans people richer.
Scale is the main consideration.
Interesting food for thought. Thank you for taking the time to write it out.