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4 Panel Comic
Panel 1: Ron Weasley sits in front of a fireplace with a Gameboy Yellow with Pokémon Red in hand.
Ron: Harry, these muggle games are so fun!
Panel 2: Harry Potter sits across the fireplace from Ron and holds his wand and a Gameboy Red with the screen and wand pointing at Ron.
Potter: Ron, look! My Pokémon is evolving from Abra to Kadabra!
Panel 3: Harry is horrified as magic flies from his wand
Panel 4: Harry comes to the depressing realization of what he’s done.
We need to stop referencing this problematic IP, and its problematic author, and just let the whole damn thing slide into obscurity.
As much as I loathe the author and mundanely feel indifferent towards the franchise, I can’t agree. It makes me think of H.P. Lovecraft who was far more problematic and yet I wouldn’t want his works to be lost. Granted, he was poor during his lifetime, so he didn’t spread his hate as much, but that’s besides the point.
If anything let’s keep infringing on her IP!
Lovecraft is dead, meaning he can’t hurt anyone. Rowling actively uses the money she makes off the franchise to hurt people, and even the most indirect forms of advertisement for her IP ultimately help her profit and then use those profits to do harm.
You can’t use that excuse, it’s like saying hitler is dead so I can enjoy his art. Please so not let your need to be right to obfuscate what’s moral.
J.K. Rowling is alive and doing active harm with the money she makes. And if you financially support her, whether directly or indirectly, you are helping her do harm.
If Hitler created any great art, it would be okay to acknowledge that. He famously didn’t, though.
We can enjoy her work like Lovecraft’s when she’s as dead as Lovecraft.
If you want to make that day come sooner, then support your local trans community! Together we can give JK Rowling a stroke!
or we could simply separate the artist from their head!
Except when that author is explicitly saying the money she makes is going directly to anti-trans hategroups. Its the same reason I dont get Chic Fil A, they actively fund anti-LGBT hategroups.
Edit: I misread! Although one thing to point out, she could leave instructions for her estate to continue funding anti-trans groups after ghe event of her death.
I think you misread me
I did misread that
you should reread that comment
I should, and did, appreciated!
Lovecraft was possibly the only instance where it legitimately was fear driving his xenophobia and not hatred. The man was completely and irrationally terrified of everything from air conditioners to mathematics that wasnt on a 2d plane to black people and eventually learned later in life that what scared him previously wasn’t actually scary.
He also wasn’t a billionaire actively throwing his money and notoriety behind hate groups specifically swaying legislation and public opinion to bring harm to people.
The difference is that Lovecraft is dead and no longer benefits from any sales or attention. JKR is, unfortunately, still alive and actively spreading as much misery as possible. Considering that there’s a massive advertising push for the new show, we don’t need to do their marketing for them by also spreading comics.
Where did you hear this?
Lovecraft never made very much money, he was always poor and he died poor.
Was Lovecraft really more problematic? I heard he was racist, but did he become the equivalent of a billionaire from his works, and use those proceeds to fuel more hate?
I don’t think it is. Giving money to Rowling, directly or indirectly, is to hurt our trans siblings. Buying The Call of Cthulhu won’t do that.
H.P. Lovecraft never funded campaigns that made the state strip the rights of non-white people.
He is nowhere near more problematic, JK actively hurts people and is 100% responsible for trans deaths.
Yeah, let’s not give her any money, but the world is interesting, and fan work on it is also cool