• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 hours ago

    I wish we could just stop using a transphobe’s franchise universe in pop culture. I wish we would just stop mentioning, talking about or referencing it altogether. Just pure silence and forgetting.

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      9 hours ago

      This is coming from far-right Internet chuds, feuding over fantasy nonsense. I don’t think they’re going to shut up any time soon, so might as well enjoy the comedy of it all.

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        7 hours ago

        The only two things we can achieve by doing that is normalising the consumption of products made by bigots (or the continuation of that being normal) and the normalisation of far-right internet chuds and their nonsense.

        How about trying to break the loop?

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          7 hours ago

          How about trying to break the loop?

          I think monitoring and mocking these freaks facilities that goal.

          Orthodox Catholic Transgender Draco Malfoy is about as big a thumb in the eye of every end of the right wing spectrum. That they’ve done this to themselves is worth trumpeting. Especially when half the GOP has pinned their campaign strategy to “Be afraid of transgender athletes, Catholicly”

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              5 hours ago

              still normalises the HP franchise

              “JD Vance Base voters are really into HP right now” is definitely what’s keeping the franchise alive

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                5 hours ago

                That is not what I said.

                “Both nerds and normies making HP references, memes, buying merch etc” is keeping the franchise alive. Bonus points for “woke” nerds. That’s why I’d love to see these references die down. I’d love seeing HP mercy disappear, the TV show, movies, theatre plays flopping, etc. And what we internet nerds can do is (in the context of a meme community) not use that franchise for memes.