So your priorities are a wizard book for children that you like some of, then below that, in second place, the rights and lives of persecuted minorities.
“to the well trained mind, doing mental gymnastics to ignore harm to minorities is the next great adventure” - Professor Domblewomble, probably.
My personal, individual consumption of the media, which does not enrich the author financially or in the spread of the author’s ideals, has literally no effect on the rights and lives of persecuted minorities.
It’s not an either or situation. These two things do not have some direct inverse relation.
Every time you read a problematic passage about the house elves, ICE stomps on the nuts of another non-white person? Brother they’re doing that regardless of what I do.
I whole heartedly disagree with this seemingly recent concept that consumption of a thing somehow magically proliferates the problematic elements of that thing. It only does that if the consumer proliferates the problematic elements. I’m not going to.
Better not pirate the bible, the quaran, any HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain (some horrendous takes about jewish people that no one seems to remember he said). Better tell historians that they need to establish careful rules about how many times anyone studies Mein Kampf.
I don’t have the words to engage with this idea in good faith. Yes, horrible people will use this shit to reinforce their horrible ideas. That doesn’t mean that everyone consuming it has a measurable effect on the proliferation of those horrible ideas, and that proliferation of horrible ideas has a direct connection to horrible actions. There are definitie and obvious connections, but every step is a significant level of abstraction from the one before it.
And for the record, I’m not even going to pirate this series. I am simply that opposed to this batshit concept I see paraded around more and more lately.
Even in this fantasy universe, saying Voldemort’s name didn’t actually give him more power.
Unrelated to the actual discussion, but this is shitty and rude. Don’t pretend you want to discuss something and then plug your ears when your conversational partner actually puts effort into a reply. Which is kind of what you’ve been doing the whole time, but you dropped the act here.
I’ve heard all those arguments before, and they have heard all the replies. It’s rude for them to bring them up AGAIN this many years into the discussion and act like they arent just trying to waste my fucking time.
Also I’ve replied to like two comments, stop acting like its some kind of pattern, with your tea leaf reading pseudo adult-in-the-room civility politics. We’re talking transphobes and the people who defend them, so sorry if being cordial isn’t top of my agenda.
Yes because sometimes entertainment is just there for entertaining me and finding political plotholes in everything is already tiring enough considering my beliefs.
I’m glad we agree, you sold out your values for the literary equivalent of paw patrol, and it makes you sad to think about how cheap your morals are :D I can’t lie, I find it disgusting, but there’s a freedom in being so honest with yourself, so have a great day I suppose<3
So your priorities are a wizard book for children that you like some of, then below that, in second place, the rights and lives of persecuted minorities.
“to the well trained mind, doing mental gymnastics to ignore harm to minorities is the next great adventure” - Professor Domblewomble, probably.
My personal, individual consumption of the media, which does not enrich the author financially or in the spread of the author’s ideals, has literally no effect on the rights and lives of persecuted minorities.
It’s not an either or situation. These two things do not have some direct inverse relation.
Every time you read a problematic passage about the house elves, ICE stomps on the nuts of another non-white person? Brother they’re doing that regardless of what I do.
I whole heartedly disagree with this seemingly recent concept that consumption of a thing somehow magically proliferates the problematic elements of that thing. It only does that if the consumer proliferates the problematic elements. I’m not going to.
Better not pirate the bible, the quaran, any HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain (some horrendous takes about jewish people that no one seems to remember he said). Better tell historians that they need to establish careful rules about how many times anyone studies Mein Kampf.
I don’t have the words to engage with this idea in good faith. Yes, horrible people will use this shit to reinforce their horrible ideas. That doesn’t mean that everyone consuming it has a measurable effect on the proliferation of those horrible ideas, and that proliferation of horrible ideas has a direct connection to horrible actions. There are definitie and obvious connections, but every step is a significant level of abstraction from the one before it.
And for the record, I’m not even going to pirate this series. I am simply that opposed to this batshit concept I see paraded around more and more lately.
Even in this fantasy universe, saying Voldemort’s name didn’t actually give him more power.
Yo dawg I ain’t reading all that but congratulations, or I’m sorry that happened to you or whatever.
Unrelated to the actual discussion, but this is shitty and rude. Don’t pretend you want to discuss something and then plug your ears when your conversational partner actually puts effort into a reply. Which is kind of what you’ve been doing the whole time, but you dropped the act here.
I’ve heard all those arguments before, and they have heard all the replies. It’s rude for them to bring them up AGAIN this many years into the discussion and act like they arent just trying to waste my fucking time.
Also I’ve replied to like two comments, stop acting like its some kind of pattern, with your tea leaf reading pseudo adult-in-the-room civility politics. We’re talking transphobes and the people who defend them, so sorry if being cordial isn’t top of my agenda.
Yes because sometimes entertainment is just there for entertaining me and finding political plotholes in everything is already tiring enough considering my beliefs.
Political plot holes? What are you talking about?
A way of saying “things I don’t agree with” because this whole discussion is exhausting and I can’t be arsed to put more effort into it.
I’m glad we agree, you sold out your values for the literary equivalent of paw patrol, and it makes you sad to think about how cheap your morals are :D I can’t lie, I find it disgusting, but there’s a freedom in being so honest with yourself, so have a great day I suppose<3