In order to burn her books, you first have to purchase them, and at that point, you’ve defeated your own purpose.
It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books.
Submitted 7 hours ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Almacca@aussie.zone 38 minutes ago
spittingimage@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
And it’s not like the books changed. Just the people reading them.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 59 minutes ago
I got threatened with a ban on Blahaj because I pointed out basically this when somebody posted a picture of a burning Harry Potter book. It wasn’t even a criticism, it was just pointing out how funny life is that, for completely opposing reasons, trans people (and allies) and crazy Fundamentalists would both support what was happening in the picture.
The author (who was apparently a mod) made some comment about “hurr durr, mah both sides” and deleted my comment. It was very confusing, as my comment showed I clearly supported one of those sides (since I even referred to the Fundamentalists as crazy).
Meltdown@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
There’s a lot of people who can’t understand that the book and the author are different things.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Not really down with burning the books, just that Rowling is using money from the series to fund a campaign against trans people.
I’m not going to spend money that someone is going to use to turn around and attack my rights with.
Like, if I was in the UK - it would be illegal for me to piss basically anywhere. Trans women are supposed to use the men’s, but because trans men are autistic self hating lesbians (the kind of shitty propaganda that bitch funds) we don’t exist and can’t piss in the men’s or the women’s.
I’m not very opposed to the mediocre children’s book series for their content - it’s just typical “the status quo is good actually.” I’m not going to give money to people who are using their money to hurt me.
Fletcher@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
When you reveal yourself to be a bigoted, hateful person, most evolved and compassionate people tend to dislike you.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 hours ago
Not enough people. You still see people talking about it, citing their Hogwarts houses, playing the games, squeeing about news of the TV show snd so on as if nothing was amiss, and dismissing any concerns about the profits going to persecute trans people as some kind of weird Peta-tier puritanism. It’s still considered acceptable in the mainstream to be into HP and be accepted as a good person.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 hours ago
The setting is fun. The author is garbage. Also don’t think too hard about the characters or the way different magical races are portrayed.
Yermaw@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Yeah if you start analysing it and paying the slightest attention with -phobias in mind the whole thing starts looking at bit sus.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I like that the first movie has a couple possibly problematic things (“you’re supposed to be a good athlete, it’s in your genes”), but I feel like a lot of it goes away the longer the movies continue.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
When you pay the game you realize how few women and non-white characters there were.
riskable@programming.dev 6 hours ago
“It’s the work of the devil!”
Maybe they were right all along. 🤔
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 28 minutes ago
Persecuting infidels has always been a universally popular occupation. The Christianity etc is only a justification.