If you stand by what you preach you should basically stop buying anything. No matter what, a billionaire is getting your money, and they are all pieces of shit I promise.
Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide
muse@kbin.social 7 months agoWhat about it? None of us are surprised that people chose a childhood memory over respect for trans people as human beings.
rab@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
morphballganon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tons of people worked on the game who aren’t bigots. Artists, programmers, designers etc. Buying the game supports them, too.
Also, someone decided to make the owner of the Three Broomsticks trans.
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ah yes the “I cant be racist, I have a black friend” defense. JKR is still a TERF and she still financially benefits from hogarts legacy and no amount of tokenism is going to change that.
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
What a ridiculous take. First of, outside of certain parts of the internet most people aren’t even aware of the issues surrounding Rowling, secondly you can very much acknowledge that she’s a terrible excuse for a human being while still enjoying a game she had nothing to do with (yes, she gets royalties, but she has the kind of fuck you money that multiplies by merely existing anyway).
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Your profile has “Nazis can fuck off”, but you’re here calling out people who have issues with Rowling, a bigot who stans Nazis like Kellie-Jay Keen
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I’m not. I’m calling out people who call me a bigot for not living up to their standards on ethical consumption. Personally I avoid Nestlé and the billion subsidiaries wherever humanly possible, but I am not calling everyone who doesn’t pro-slavery. That’s my issue, not the (warranted) labelling of Rowling as a bigoted piece of shit.
simple@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s genuinely amazing to me how some people are obsessed with the idea that buying a videogame based on the works of an author that wasn’t even involved in making the project makes you transphobic.
muse@kbin.social 7 months ago
She's literally said that people buying her shit proves she's right.
I'm sorry people have some more morals with their money and have trouble giving it to people who have made it their entire focus to shit on them and be called rapists by their former childhood heroes.
simple@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Your morals are fine, what isn’t fine is that most of the people boycotting the game are harassing people that buy it.
So what? Why is everyone giving some dumbass writer that hasn’t been relevant in 10 years so much attention?
Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
They may not be bigots themselves but they happily give their money to a person well known for being bigoted that also actively tries to make the world a worse place for trans people. It is like buying a burzum album; you don’t have to be a nazi to do it but the nazi still profits.
rab@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
My girlfriend literally was bullied by coworkers for playing the game. And she is the absolute sweetest. It is completely ridiculous
If I cared, I could easily go into the above dude’s post history to find an example of his money going towards some bigot to prove he’s a hypocrite. It doesn’t matter what you buy, your money is supporting bigotry, because at the top of the human social hierarchy are bigots. Welcome to the world.
rab@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Why care about what a writer has to say about gender politics? I don’t. I don’t even know what she said specifically because it means nothing.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because she’s actively using her money to make trans people’s lives worse, and she’s influencing people by spreading her hateful views. It absolutely doesn’t mean nothing - she’s literally lobbying with the money you gave her!