JK Rowling wrote a whole book series about how bullying is a horrible and self-perpetuating cycle, and now spends most of her time bullying a marginalised group
Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.
Submitted 6 months ago by deddit@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 months ago
JK Rowling
No, Joanne!
I.e., I understand she greatly prefers (absolutely detests) being addressed that way. :D
Hector@lemmy.world 6 months ago
[deleted]shapis@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I’ve had a couple friends sprout bs like this.
What I’ve done with them is I ask them to check her twitter out with me. If more than 7 of her most recent 10 tweets at any time aren’t anti trans bs I’ll agree with them that she’s defending herself.
I’m gonna invite you to whenever you see this message go on her twitter and count. Then come back and tell me if she’s just defending herself or if she made it a huge part of her personality hating a minority.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 months ago
She’s literally been denying the Holocaust killed trans people. She funded a court case that made it so that were I live in the UK, it would be illegal for me to piss in any public restroom.
That’s like saying David Irving was “viciously attacked for having opinions out of the mainstream.”
4am@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
She is not defending herself. She is attacking. She is funding hate groups with money.
Fuck Joanne and her stupid wizard world. It’s all built on ideas of imperialism apologia anyway
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Her opinions are old school mainstream. She’s against the culture shift and if she existed decades ago, she’s be more opening racist rather then transphobic.
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
She’s bringing her opinions to parliament and using them to kill people
skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
No.
Other people’s right to exist is not just “an opinion outside of the mainstream”.
Delete your post and don’t make anything like it again.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Now look at who’s running Nintendo (of America). Guy named Bowser. That will never not be funny. (Coincidentally, a guy who hacked one of their consoles and is now essentially a wage slave to them, forced to give up like half his paycheck to them, is also named Bowser.)
Disney and Nintendo are both widely loved companies that have done some very bad things for the world. Maybe the true villains. But, like anything and anyone else, it’s shades of grey, neither of them are completely diabolically evil.
InputZero@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nintendo and Disney aren’t evil because they’re cooperations, not people. It’s the people who sit on top of Disney and Nintendo who are either diabolically evil or spineless cowards who want money and power but are too scared to use it for good. Either way, Nintendo and Disney “don’t serve the public interest”.
rikudou@lemmings.world 6 months ago
neither of them are completely diabolically evil
You sure? I don’t see any redeeming qualities in Disney nor Nintendo.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The happiness they bring children counts for something.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
As always, companies aren’t people, they are comprised of people. Not all of these people are diabolically evil. And even then, likely the people making the diabolically evil decisions have some streak in them that’s not diabolically evil.
For example, you can’t honestly say that none of the Disney movies had any positive effect on people. Same with stuff that Nintendo does.
Sure, overall the verdict is “diabolically evil”. But there are positives within the overwhelmingly negative.
fartographer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Y’all see the latest Captain America movie? The one where the whole moral was “maybe we can still appeal to their better nature?”
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
You still watching that crap?
fartographer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yargh, matey. I do be watching whatever the fuck I want.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 months ago
Superheros also just preach that you have to maintain the status quo, never tackle the root of the problem, just violently attack the symptoms and that only a small few special people can save you, so everybody else just has to get out of the way and cheer.
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Yeah, like Mulan showing that girls can also fight or Merida showing that girls have an opinion of their own.
No more like Mike Wazowski showing all Monsters that laughing is better than screaming. Or Lilo befriending an alien weapon. Or Captain Jack Sparr-oh…
Remember, we are talking about Disney heroes and A LOT of them question the status quo (not all, but a lot).
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
V for Vendetta
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Iron Man is about Iron Man realising that selling weapons is bad
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And then giving an unbelievably hangout weapons system to some kid as a gift.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 months ago
Also saying you need to be a rich prick to get anything done
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You’re talking about Disney movies. Intended for children. They’re not gonna go shoot someone in the head because they’re responsible for denied health insurance.
Why are you expecting kids movies to be an accurate intricate commentary of society in the first place?
It’s movies, for kids. Most people grow out of that. But some keep being obsessed with “superheroes”
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 months ago
Why are you expecting kids movies to be an accurate intricate commentary of society in the first place?
Because what kids watch will influence their sense of morality
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I like Black Adam, he kills colonisers
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
That sounds like the villains’ motive in My Hero Academia. A good series about superheroes, and what it means to be a hero. And what it means for those who aren’t qualified to work as heroes but do, or try to do heroic things (the fourth season addresses this, as will the upcoming final season (it was in the manga, which is complete), and the Vigilantes spinoff directly covers it.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
While this is a good narrative to make about Disney if we want to hate on them, it’s not true though.
The Disney movies for kids is almost all about not maintaining status quo and actually challenge it. Or being different than anyone else
Frozen and Moana are recent examples. Pirates of Caribbean for an older audience. There’s many more.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 months ago
Disney kids movies aren’t about super heroes usually. But even Lion King is how you can’t escape adult responsibilities and have to continue the cycle.
Hegar@fedia.io 6 months ago
”Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world”
OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Well, yeah, this is like saying Santa Claus isn’t real lol
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Does Santa Clus support genocides?
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not to my knowledge, but that fucker, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, and Tooth Fairy all support/practice breaking and entering!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, just slavery.
RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Since Santa isn’t real, I would say the answer is a definitive, no.
TheBat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Ok fanboy
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 6 months ago
It is any better.
It's also not okay what DC did, but the transgressions are very different in scale.
Kimmel was faired for saying "MAGA is trying to make it look like the shooter wasn't a MAGA activist", while Felker-Martin got fired for saying "it's a good thing Kirk can no longer take part in podcasts."
I don't think either of those is grounds for firing, but it's not good to bring them to the same level.
RavenofDespair@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
This just came out and shows this theme. It is awesome Knights of Guinevere: pilot youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE