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- Comment on Medical Workers Evacuated From Gaza, but 3 Americans Refuse to Leave 1 month ago:
The staff and patients fear that without Americans in the hospital to serve as political shields against the Israel Defense Forces, the hospital will be destroyed, as the IDF has done to every other hospital in Gaza.
God that is heart breaking. I understand why those that evacuated did, but I can’t help but greatly admire those that stayed. Fuck this genocide.
- Comment on What if as I get older, like a Mandela effect, everyone's understanding of what the average life span is increases? 1 month ago:
Nah. If you’re gonna put this in any community, this is the one…though I’ll admit the question could use some clarification.
- Comment on I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath 1 month ago:
It’s easy to start. Google is required to send you a CSV of your YouTube subscriptions upon request.
If you have an Android phone, once you have said CSV file, you can upload it into the Newpipe Application and voila, watch YouTube without visiting YouTube (or supporting the creators, but that’s an aside to this topic). Sadly I know of no way of doing something similar on iPhone.
On desktop/tablet, you can always use Invidious. This is especially useful when combined with the tool yt-dlp and sponsorblock. If you use an RSS reader, you can “subscribe” to YouTube channels that way, and use redirection extensions to redirect you from YouTube to invidious, after that you can use yt-dlp with a sponsor block flag to download the video directly to your desktop, and watch it in whatever quality you want, with subtitles if you want, and have all mentions of sponsors cut out, and of course, no ads.
Obviously, this is too much work for most, but this is what I do to not visit YouTube while still watching their content, which is simply more plentiful and, IMHO, higher quality than what you find on other platforms (save for possibly Nebula).
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 month ago:
Throwing the lamest capitalist party at the end of the world. Wooo…AI…boo…planet earth?..
- Comment on How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4? 1 month ago:
It would be a much smaller business model. My guess is that there have already been multiple market analyses of what you’re talking about and the determination is most likely that the majority of hotel arrivals occur later on in the day.
This isn’t to say a good amount of arrivals dont occur much earlier in the day, just not enough to justify the cost.
Additionally, to flip that would have hotel staff be cleaning rooms at a much earlier time (midnight to 4am), meaning they would have to arrive at midnight to start their shift. At 4am, the cleaning staff management would then need to spend a minimum of 1 hour to inspect each room to ensure it met company and legal standards. This is all ignoring the various tasks this can incur on the other staff like concierges.
I used to work as a Night Auditor in a small, but upscale, hotel. The housekeeping staff were some of the hardest working people I’ve ever met, and yet they were the least appreciated. Those hours in between check-out and check-in was always a hussle. I was always thankful I worked front desk whenever I saw them and would do them small favors if they ever asked (though honestly more often than not it was the other way around and I was asking them for some small request on behalf of the guest).
If we had the rooms available for an early check in, then we did it, but if not the best we could do was offer them to check their luggage in at the front desk and they were on their own until check in. The occurrence of this wasn’t negligible, but given everything I witnessed, I determined, at least for our hotel, it wouldn’t have been monetarily feasible to adjust that check-out check-in window to accommodate them. It simply didn’t happen often enough to justify it.
- Comment on What's stopping you from using Ecosia? Your searches could plant trees! 1 month ago:
There are many legitimate reasons to not use ecosia, and yes, from the ecological perspective.
Planting trees has shown to be not as effective at curbing the effects of climate change as previously thought. Contrary to popular belief, the oceans have a much larger effect on our climate than our forests, and we aren’t doing nearly enough to clean those up because the task is far more difficult for a multitude of reasons.
This isn’t to say planting trees doesn’t have some benefit, but there are much better ways to curb your CO² emissions which you can see at the end of this rant/post.
Sneak peak though, if you eat meat, and actually give a fuck about the forests, perhaps you should stop consuming animals. Eating meat in particular is directly related to deforestation, as often deforestation is done to make room for massive CAFOs, which even if the deforestation didn’t occur, would still significantly contribute to climate change.
Ecosia’s funding comes from advertisements, which incentivizes consumption, which itself contributes to climate change innately. Every purchase you make, every meal you eat, every time you travel by automobile or airplane, contributes to the ever growing mass of CO2. Advertisements and marketing exacerbate climate change by cultivating a never ending consumerist mindset for goods and services that are inherently responsible for climate change.
Ecosia is a moldy old band aid on a gushing neck wound that honestly is causing more harm than good by distracting people from the real source of the climate crisis, which is modern capitalism and the resulting consumerism.
Actually fighting climate change requires more of you than some passive empty gesture., Here’s a bullet point list of things you can do today to make a real difference:
- Stop eating and utilizing animal based products.
- Stop eating foods that were grown using petroleum derived fertilizers (aka, Organics).
- Stop eating foods that had to be trucked in from over 100 miles away (aka local).
- Stop buying plastic packaged goods.
- Stop traveling by any means that require oil.
- Stop living in or working in places which utilize electricity from the standard fossil fueled grid.
- Abandon the fast fashion industry.
- Only buy local goods and services.
- Stop buying new electronic devices unless absolutely necessary.
- Stop buying things you don’t absolutely 100% need to survive.
- Don’t use AI as it utilizes an insane amount of fossil fuel generated electricity and consumes an exorbitant amount of water.
- Same goes for playing AAA video games on high end GPUs.
- Same goes for participating in Cryptocurrency mining.
- Get politically involved to pressure your local governments to implement safer spaces for pedestrians and cyclists.
- Spend all your spare time fighting the fossil fuel, plastic, and privatized water industries, because all of the above only makes a difference if that industry is GONE FOR GOOD.
- Don’t have children (biggest contributor to climate change is more consumerist humans).
There is a reason climate scientists are increasingly becoming climate activists. This is not something you can buy, recycle, or search engine your way out of.
As I’ve pointed out, there simply are far more impactful ways you can make a difference today than using a search engine that gets in bed with Microsoft and makes relatively empty gestures while playing nice with corporations that, I guarantee you, are far more interested in pursuing business as usual than preserving the planet for their own children, let alone you and me.
- Comment on Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation 1 month ago:
So we made Metalhead from Black Mirror? Cool…cool cool cool…so uhh… how do I wake up from this nightmare again?
- Comment on The Man Who Destroyed Google Search 1 month ago:
Oh I missed that, lol. Oh well, it’s worth mentioning regardless. Great podcast. Thanks for point that out.
- Comment on The Man Who Destroyed Google Search 1 month ago:
Great article. The author, Ed Zitron, covers this same topic on his podcast, Better Offline. I highly recommend it.
- Comment on ‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests 1 month ago:
Good. This generation will be the ones writing about this time period as the sad pathetic chapter of human history it is.
Let our children be the ones to rain down upon us unrelenting and constant reminders of our own compromises made with corporate and government fascists. Compromises where we were willing to sacrifice the lives, autonomy, and national identity of an entire ethnic group of people in exchange for imperialist power.
Don’t relent. Don’t let the fascists off the hook. Call out this genocide for what it is and fight to stop it. Fight until the world bows its head in shame and drops its arms, and then execute the war criminals.
- Comment on Women should give up vaping if they want to get pregnant, study suggests 2 months ago:
spawns in Louisville, Kentucky Aww…Goddamn it.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Duckduckgo proxies Bing, not Google.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 2 months ago:
I agree. I’m not saying its not without it’s risks, Options on individual stocks are pretty risky, but a call Option that follows the S&P500 over the course of 3 years? That’s a pretty safe bet. It takes a multi year US recession to lose that bet, and while certainly not impossible (we’ve obviously had a few of them over the past couple decades), but it’s the safest bet I’ve seen on Options.
I’m not advising people to do this, I’m using this scenario as an illustration to point out how making money on the US stock market is usually based off of mass speculation rather than any actual value made by people actually producing goods and services on the ground floor.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 2 months ago:
Don’t be put off by my jargon and in depth explanation. It is actually STUPID simple to do this. Do a SMALL bit of research and then use a Stock Market simulator to simulate a small purchase Call Option on the S&P 500 for 2 or 3 years. Then leave it. Don’t look at it don’t think about it forget about it.
Come back in 2 to 3 years and look at your simulated account. If the US did not go into a recession in the last 2 to 3 years you will have at least doubled your simulated money. After that do it for real.
Or you could be like me and walk away in disgust. It just made me very jaded about US economics and modern capitalism.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 2 months ago:
The rich capitalists haven’t made money the traditional way for about a generation now. The majority of wealth is made on the real estate and stock market which is based off of speculation and expectations of perceived value that have little to do with actual value.
So they’ll just keep making money off their own money.
A little secret, if you want to see how this works, look into how to make LEAP Options calls on the SPY ETF. Basically you can leverage some money by buying an Options Call on a safe bet like betting on the top 500 US companies via an Exchange Traded Fund. A LEAP just means that bet is LONG term,over the course of years. Unlike Stocks, Options require you to either cash out (exercise) your Options after a certain amount of time (weeks to years) “roll over” your option call by putting down money for more time, essentially doubling down on your bet.
If you place your bet on say , the S&P 500, you bet on the top 500 companies doing well over a certain time period (say the next 3 years). The Options call allows you to acquire say 60% more stock than you could technically afford, but you can only hold it for 3 years. If those 500 companies do well over the next 3 years, you get the returns of those stocks, and you got to leverage 60% more stocks than you could technically afford all because you were willing to make that bet within a certain time limit. Worse case scenario is the US goes into a recession that lasts those 3 years and you either lose your entire investment or you invest some more money (but not as much as the initial bet usually) to extend your Option call out for another period of time.
It’s one of the many ways even the moderately wealthy can earn a hefty profit over legalized gambling. The strategy I’ve just described to you is considered one of the safer bets amongst stock bros I’ve talked with, and it’s a real life Free Money Glitch that works as long as US economy line goes up.
Now imagine the insanity that goes on in actual Wall Street with actual dynamically changing algorithms and people who have devoted their lives to making more money out of existing money, and you start to realize that these rich fucks at the top can basically say fuck all to investing in companies that create actual value, they just need lower level investors to believe that paradigm still exists.
- Comment on Jon Stewart says Apple told him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan 2 months ago:
Thanks for this. I haven’t watched the last couple episodes of The Daily Show where Jon specifically hosted. Mainly just forgot tbh. But I’ve been wondering when he would open up more on exactly what happened over at Apple, and this fills in a few of the details.
Thanks. I’m definitely gonna have to watch this episode later.
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 3 months ago:
This. Options are the way.
- Comment on Your Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube 3 months ago:
Lol. This post is a quality romp. Thanks.
- Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google 3 months ago:
Meh. For all the YT I consume, I haven’t visited the site in years. yt-dlp, sponsor block, invidious, and newpipe keep me far away, while still having all my aubs stored in a json file. Simple, easy, no algo suggestions, just organic heard about them from word of mouth subscription. No ads, no sponsor or patreon mentions, no like, no subscribe. Is bliss.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 4 months ago:
Because stock bros be lazy AF. They can’t even be bothered to buy and sell stock based off of who is and isn’t doing well, so they utilize investment firms who offer safe and risky bets like ETFs and Futures respectively. Ultimately, everyone really just wants to to buy one stock, have it make them money that exponentially makes even more money quarter after quarter forever, and then do whatever they’d actually do if money were no object (I.e. actually live life).
We don’t live in a world where desire/need scales evenly with this desire for exponential, eternal growth, so capitalists, who promise this impossible prospect to wall street, exploit human fears, desires, needs however they can (union busting, lobbying, etc.)
Carlin ultimately said it best in what has to be one of the greatest bits of all time, on The Big Club.
- Comment on Don't tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice 4 months ago:
Me: And my sexual preferences are-
Gemini: I already know that.
Me: Oh…okay, well my address is…
Gemini: Pfft, duhh, I’m trained on Google data, you think I don’t already know that?
Me: Oh…okay…I was thinking…
Gemini: About that last ad I shoved down your throat. Yeah, I know you loved that.
Me: Uhh…no…you didn’t show me any ads…
Gemini: Didn’t I?
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 4 months ago:
Just out of curiosity, what other trusted certificate authorities are there that offer ssl certs for free and no strings attached other than letsencrypt?
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 4 months ago:
Whoa, lots of whataboutisms going on here. I don’t think you’re making these questions in good faith, but hey, I’m always willing to field questions from z’haters.
If someone spends money on leisure in the states for example, are they supporting racism, transphobia etc due to their moneys going to states like Florida, Texas etc?
No, only if they knowingly support the businesses of those who are racists, transphobes, and other hate groups. Yeah, their tax money goes towards very hateful politicians, but as long as their beliefs don’t align with them, then they’re just people trying to survive in a state run by shitty politicians.
What about people that buy video games even though companies are known to work their employees into depression and have harmful ethics regarding female employees with sexual harassment?
Yeah, don’t play those games, and let those companies know why! Video games and entertainment aren’t inherently necessary to your survival, and if you knowingly purchase, and engage in positive rhetoric around those games, you are endorsing the bad practices that made that game possible. I know game devs just need to make a living in a shitty industry, but that industry will remain shitty unless you hit those corporate asshats where it hurts, and the only place it hurts is their wallets. It sucks because the devs don’t deserve to be dragged down monetarily with the asshats up top, but that’s the way the capitalist cookie crumbles right now, and the only moral choice in my view is to not buy those games at all.
Are people that buy games endorsing that culture?
If they buy those games specifically, while also knowing about the disgusting business practices that were engaged in during it’s production? Yes.
How should those victims view fans that continue to make those companies money?
As ignorant participants in a flawed corporate infrastructure in which they are trapped in at best, and uncaring knowing participants at worst. If these employees speak out, they are left without a means of a living wage income due to horrific minimum wage laws and no social safety net. I’ve met people in the video game industry, gotten beers with them, talked with them, most of them didn’t know how toxic it was going to be when they got into it. But they invested so much time, energy, and usually also money in their education, that they have little recourse now to abandon their job for my “purity test”, as you put it. I am sympathetic towards their plight because their livelihood and lifestyle depends on it. The same cannot be said of those wanting to create a little HP fan club.
What about companies that outsource their manufacturing processes to China?
Ah yes, the big elephant in the room, right? You can’t get away from Chinese products, their everywhere! You can’t live cheaply without China’s horrible work practices, right? All the while they additionally suppress public forms of dissent, have a literal dictator for life as a “president”, have displaced the Dalai Llama, have imprisoned dissidents in Hong Kong, refused to acknowledge the statehood of Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the horrific treatment of the Uyghur Muslims. So yeah, it’s a shitty situation and in the US, many goods are difficult to find that don’t come from China, and most cheap goods are produced in China. So what about that?
My take on it is if you can do without Chinese products, do it. If you don’t need it for work or school, then yeah, you get a pass from my “purity test”. If you can’t afford to buy a more expensive product that doesn’t come from China, and again, you really actually need it (and don’t simply want it), then buy it. Then go out and condemn the Chinese Communist Party regardless. Condemn them loudly and in public, on the internet and IRL, as often as the subject comes up. Bring up the topic from time to time if it bothers you, and it should.
Ultimately your bad faith arguments are basically saying “There’s a lot of bad in the world, and if you do any of the things I mentioned, your hands aren’t clean! You’re not holier than me, you’re just like the rest of us, so STFU!” But that’s the whole thing, I’m as disgusted with this shit as the rest of you, the only difference is I refuse to STFU about it and say nothing.
I’m not blind to the fact that some people are in bad situations they can’t get out of. Capitalism as a whole and the history of racism, homophobia, and transphobia that have plagued human history has put us all in a shit situation that we can only play our small role in, and survive in. But that doesn’t mean things can’t change. Slavery was once thought a necessary evil that propped up the American economy during the 19th century, the Feminist movement was ridiculed as promoting an “unnatural” restructuring of the existing social hierarchy, Racism was silently accepted by the majority until the Civil Rights movements upended the status quo, and Homosexuality only became more socially accepted after the Stonewall Riots occurred and people died for their right to personhood. Societal change has never been solved by a comfortable nice conversation or sticking your head in the sand. It has always happened because disenfranchised people stood the fuck up, said something, and did something, and very often this had to happen many many times over before society at large got the fucking message, heard their voices, and changed (we’re still addressing all these issues on some level or another right now, and our rhetoric around these subjects continues to change, overall for the better, thanks to these initial challenges to the status quo).).
Now, you could argue that joining an HP fan club can do the same from the inside, but, obviously, I disagree. Many of these aforementioned movements didn’t succeed because they ignored the bigotry around them (though trust me, many of them wanted to, they tried, and they failed). These movements only succeeded when they called out the hatred, bigotry, and INDIFFERENCE for what it was over and over and over again.
So…what about your next whataboutism?
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 4 months ago:
Not a quote. You’re intentionally misinterpreting what I posted. I’ll just keave this here for you to read again because you obviously would rather engage in throwing hot garbage around than produce a valid counterpoint.
My original post again was:
Its not lost on trans activists that trans people themselves can engage in the same type of careless behavior that results in the support of bigotry.
If they enjoy HP, that’s fine, but to deny that positive discourse around the franchise supports JKR and subtly and overtly, as well as reinforces her bigotry, is naive.
There are plenty of people who are willing to do the easy thing even if it ends up being harmful to themselves and others. Trans people are no exception to this kind of behavior.
It’s not like I haven’t encountered abrasive trans people, but oftentimes their anger and resentment comes from a place that is completely understandable. They often have to put so much of their grievances aside to assuage the masses because otherwise they are immediately villified, even amongst those that are supposed to be their supporters.
I personally don’t have much respect for those that are willing to turn a blind eye to the harm others obviously do just to go support them directly or indirectly for the sake of enjoying a piece of somewhat entertaining content.
The discomfort of seeing trans people getting angry about this shouldn’t inherently mean whoever brought up the grievance in a vehement manner ia immediately in the wrong. Sure, maybe they were a jerk about expressing it, but it doesn’t mean they were wrong. And dancing around it trying to be nice about the ”seeing both sides of the story" disxourse has proven ineffective at changing the discourse, so yeah, people are emptional and human and get frustrated when they dont feel heard, so they shout.
They know it won’t help, but what other option have you left them then? You’ve proven with your words, silence, actions, and inactions, that ultimately you don’t stand with them. You stand with HP, and as uncomfortable a truth as it is that you all refuse to acknowledge, you stand with JKR.
I’m somehow failing to find your misquote within my original post. Could you please point out which line has this hot garbage?:
“those trans people don’t act the same way as me, so they’re obviously wrong.”
Cuz nowhere did I even indicate this. I don’t want them to think the same as me. I’m expressing my opinion that you obviously disagree with. But to misquote me is petty and pointless. Either present a valid counterpoint or take your ball and go home.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 4 months ago:
Its not lost on trans activists that trans people themselves can engage in the same type of careless behavior that results in the support of bigotry.
If they enjoy HP, that’s fine, but to deny that positive discourse around the franchise supports JKR and subtly and overtly, as well as reinforces her bigotry, is naive.
There are plenty of people who are willing to do the easy thing even if it ends up being harmful to themselves and others. Trans people are no exception to this kind of behavior.
It’s not like I haven’t encountered abrasive trans people, but oftentimes their anger and resentment comes from a place that is completely understandable. They often have to put so much of their grievances aside to assuage the masses because otherwise they are immediately villified, even amongst those that are supposed to be their supporters.
I personally don’t have much respect for those that are willing to turn a blind eye to the harm others obviously do just to go support them directly or indirectly for the sake of enjoying a piece of somewhat entertaining content.
The discomfort of seeing trans people getting angry about this shouldn’t inherently mean whoever brought up the grievance in a vehement manner ia immediately in the wrong. Sure, maybe they were a jerk about expressing it, but it doesn’t mean they were wrong. And dancing around it trying to be nice about the ”seeing both sides of the story" disxourse has proven ineffective at changing the discourse, so yeah, people are emptional and human and get frustrated when they dont feel heard, so they shout.
They know it won’t help, but what other option have you left them then? You’ve proven with your words, silence, actions, and inactions, that ultimately you don’t stand with them. You stand with HP, and as uncomfortable a truth as it is that you all refuse to acknowledge, you stand with JKR.
- Comment on Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch 4 months ago:
Data has always been valuable, even before Surveillance Calitalism. But now with the rise of AI, the owners of social platforms that were easily accessible are now making it harder to hoard the data because they realize they can use it for their own LLM training
Not to mention data’s various other uses like advertising/marketing, selling of it foreign governments/advesaries/law enforcement agencies, etc.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 4 months ago:
Lol. How so? Seems like a lot of people here singing the praises of the work while condemning the author have a pretty hard time squaring with themselves that maybe enjoying the work somehow makes trans people feel unseen, unheard?
Or maybe it’s just that you don’t actually care.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 4 months ago:
At least the article did a good job of calling this ban the bullshit it is.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 4 months ago:
Because continuing to engage with her content is a form of endorsement of her viewpoints (As mentioned in my previous comment, it is not inherently monetary support).
By saying, ”I enjoy the content. I don’t support her views, but I’m not going to go out of my way to condemn her, and I’m going to continue to engage in positive discourse about her work.", you are s indicating “I don’t stand against trans bigotry unless publicly pressured to do so. I value the entertainment of her work more than dislike the harm my turning a blind eye to the harm the author causes with her hate speech.” Most commonly followed by “I’m just going to pretend it’s okay because it makes me uncomfortable to think otherwise. I’m not a bad person, and refuse to evem acknowledge that I might be wrong here.”
This simple line of thought that is understandably easy to fall into is often used amongst outright hate groups, transphobes in this case, to empathize with people within his community.
With that empathy built off of a mutual dislike for the trans people making them feel bad for just wanting to like their little HP fan club, they form a bond of an us vs them mentality, where the “us"becomes less and less about their love of the content, and more and more about their dislike of the " other.”
Part of this discourse I’m engaging in here isn’t in the hope that somehow I can dissuade anyone from joining this community. People gonna do what their gonna do. But pointing out the potential pitfalls of founding and perpetuating this community is meant to instill in those that join an awareness of exactly WHY trans people and their allies are so upset that people are willing to turn a deaf ear to their voices when they tell you to think more carefully on this, to reconsider your position.
then it would seem to me that they have enough self-awareness to take care of themselves and mitigate any of this nebulous harm.
They don’t though. Because to mitigate the harm would mean having a more difficult discussion on how JKR’s works and awkward stumblings around inclusivity in her works have been nothing but tokenism. A facade of inclusivity made in bad faith. But that’s not what this community would ever want to do, because to do so would be to point out exactly what I’ve been arguing this entire time, that to ignore the fact thst you are celebrating the works created by a bigot means you silently are endorsing her, even if you vocally condemn her.
People claim to care, and heck, words matter. But words only matter inasmuch as what those words do, or inspire people to do. JKR’s words obviously have inspired a lot of people in a lot of different ways. But what have they ulimately inspired people to do really?
At best, they inspired people to get together and engage in conversations about a fantasy world, maybe come up with amazing stories of their own. At worst, they inspired some people to go out and make some poor trans person want to kill themselves.
The question I pose is, does the good really outweigh the bad? I don’t think so.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 4 months ago:
I’d say when the material that makes up the HP franchise, itself, becomes distasteful. I’m not hugely invested into HP, but last I’ve seen of it, the franchise is LGBT-inclusive, directly in spite of Rowling. I see no reason why one shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy the story.
It’s not about ”allowing” people to enjoy the story. I’m only pointing out consequences both intended and not intended incurred by choices to engage with, and inherently validate, an author who has engaged in transphobic hateful rhetoric.
Engaging in communities that reinforce a positive viewpoint of a story written by a transphobic hateful person is harmful to those communities in ways that are both overt and subtle. If you are okay with that, then at least don’t deny it.
Yeah, Rowling may still profit from it.
I never mentioned boycotting her material because it somehow might starve her of profit. You are obfuscating the argument from the main point. This farcical argument is often brought up as if the harm that the trans community experiences from JKR’s rhetoric is directly related to JKR’s wallet. It’s not. It’s her hate speech and the complacency around that hate speech that is the issue.
Rowling’s a TERF shitbag, and I think most of the HP community is generally onboard with that notion, too.
Obviously I agree on Rowling being a TERF shitbag. And in all truth, I’m sure the majority of the HP community aren’t blatant transphobes. The problem is not in any obvious transphobia exhibited by the HP community, but rather what an HP community inherently must ignore in order to enjoy the material. To continue to find the HP franchise tasteful, you must ignore the hateful rhetoric of it’s author, and the repercussions of said rhetoric.
Again, if you’re okay with that, then I’d encourage you to admit that to at least yourself.