Exactly, my personal take is that ANYTHING that leads to undesirable outcomes in these people should be shunned or at least weighed against the benefits but not ones that lead to neutral outcomes, if there was a poet who solely used there voice for hate, it doesn't matter how much money they receive for some of their lighter takes at all, it even potentially shrinks there marketplace of ideas even to what is deemed "acceptable" if they prefer profit. I have read through tough criticisms of many 'canceled' people who obviously have many platforms, Some of their platforms directly help who they are "against" and I see no issue with growing such platforms that are prevalent enough to be mentioned in hate filled pieces. I however also see direct or indirect actions to support or antagonize their worse platforms with no real intervention as idiotic or misguided, so my opinions might not work well with big controversies.

It's ideal. But it's impossible in practice. There is no way I'm going to inspect every employees of every game companies whom made more than 100 games in my library to know who has how much moral high ground. It's not fair when out of the blue someone comes up condemning me for supporting something just because a security guard in one of those game companies is a wrongdoer. I wish no one had ever told me about the H.L situation so I could enjoy the game purely on its merit.

Mmh I think if enjoying that persons work requires you to contribute monetarily, like Hogwarts legacy, then you're supporting that creator whether you acknowledge it or not :[ so I view people badly if they bought it.

like with Ren&Stimpy?

​@@Ghost0e I have a trans friend who bought the damn game... 💀💀

Ironicly daniel radcliff chose to say that he supports trans people and supported charities

​@@AlechiaTheWitch i think it's because of that that they decided it was him who wrote it

@@leirumf5476 fair enougj

they did it with hatsune miku as well

@@win-winthestubbornmage4299 Oh yes, the creator of Minecraft

Her face gets better each thumbnail

@@Bismuguy Fr

There IS that, but she's getting royalties from it and the person who was originally helming the project (and whose storyline they kept even after that person was fired) was also... Basically a white supremacist. So... Yeah, plenty of "YIKES" to go around with this game even if JK is taken out of the equation.

​@@TerLoki Don't say "YIKES" ever again You understood that?

​@@TerLoki Rowling already got paid before the game came out, not to mention she no longer owns the rights to most things having to do with the franchise, having sold those to Warner Bros awhile ago

So, I will go ahead and introduce myself as... I would say literally satan, but anymore, being part of a satanic cult is part of destroying the patriarchy, or something, so ... just the most horrible thing you can possibly imagine, a white male spider or whatever. I see this entire issue as rather tiring as you are constantly trying to subject people to purity tests, the standards of which seem to continuously evolve. Generally speaking, when I partake of media or of products, I look at their quality and presentation, first. Did I read Rise of the Shield Hero because it was written by a woman? No - I had no idea. It is a well written series and the characters/plot are excellent. I have no idea what the author's political views are and the range of behaviors where I would decide to "cancel" her is a pretty small list. Now, if an artist were to depict me, or people like me, in a dismissively condescending way and then being killed, or something, I might decide it's not a good idea to support someone who hates me - but the authors who do this type of thing are never really a surprise and not usually high on the quality rating, in general. The only way your conundrum makes any sense is if you view a refusal to tow the party line as being tantamount to someone being literally satan or other cosmic aberration. While, I have no doubt you can rattle off a list of reasons for why denying trans people recognition is the most evil thing since the mustache man... the simple question is where does this line of reasoning end? 20 years ago, it was a right wing conspiracy theory to suggest these types of things would be an issue if we let "love get married." Now, you are unpersoning people who refuse to say that men can become women. At what point is something you refuse to recognize as pure going to be the worst thing since the mustache man in germany? Or to what extent has your own behavior already adjusted itself out of fear of social penalty as opposed to 'your truth?'

The game industry isn't a good industry to make this argument for. Many of the artists and coders were probably fired right after the game released.

Talk about failing their duty as a safe space

Robert E Howard and HP Lovecraft were buddies, which still ain’t shocking though. Unlike the definitive Japanese Lupin translator (Yoshimasa Ikeda was his birth name), they lived short lives.

Good insight.

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In regards to: >We can share our discomfort with it, but everybody should have the opportunity to decide for themselves. And we must respect that. What do you mean by "we must respect that?" If I share my discomfort with something someone else is doing, I accept that they have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether to continue doing it anyway or not. I don't feel like I'm obligated to respect their choice if they choose to do something I'm uncomfortable with them doing. I think that if someone chooses to respect someone who does stuff they disagree with, that's their prerogative, but I think that it's perfectly valid to say "I don't respect your choice, I think your choice is disrespectful to me, and I'm choosing to remove you from my life" if the point of contention is important to you.

@@ChickinSammich that is the logical next step and is perfectly valid. But ultimately that decision is on you not the person being cut from your life.

Very well said.

Joke's on you - the acorn hat she wears is made from REAL BABY ACORNS!!! D:

@@swishfish8858 ohno, not the baby acorns D:

BAHAHAHHA

I thought seuss decided to pull his earlier works from shelves because of the racism by his own decision before he passed.

Art should be market-driven rather than state controlled. State control will ruin the creativity of art.

Ur first mistake was finding out more about the creators "never meet your heroes"

Sad, but true. Even if you can’t, at least you can learn from their failures to keep yourself from repeating it. (Does that sound like the bar is too low?)

I think you are confusing the term with death of the author which means to not consider an artist's intended message when analysing their work.

You meant 'death of the author'

Exactly. It's not like we can control what she spends her money on.

Ah, but she DID put her antisemitism all over it, let's not forget that transphobia isn't the only contender in the ring here.

Well, there is always piracy.

Nah, her backwards views are clear in her fatphobia and colonialist ideas of other cultures in/post the books. Her suspicion of men and masculine women is also baked into the text (meanwhile Moaning Mertle does straight-up peek in on Harry bathing.)

Sometimes people forget though, that they can access most of the HP content without supporting Rowling. Buying second hand and pirating are options, heck libraries still exist and have a lot of HP stuff. In this case, if you use those pathways you're not giving Rowling _anything_ . And if you refuse to give her and her franchise attention on social media, then you might be able to circumvent this whole thing. Except for one aspect.... Her views have defenitely left their marks on her work. There is quite a lot of terrible stuff in there, as the other commenters here mentioned. Wasn't Hermoine ridiculed for wanting to stop the wizarding world's version of slavery? I've seen quite some memes on that 😅

@@enigmaj1494 Yeah, I wonder why people keep overlooking Rowling's blatant misandry in her work. Almost every male in her books is either a spineless coward, incompetent buffoon, straight-up evil or has some dark ulterior motive for being friends with Harry, who himself is only two steps down from being a Mary Sue.

Amazing comment. Thank you.

Fully agree. You can do it, absolutely, but the extent of it and how you treat it will vary depending on the media and what it represents.

Oh wow really? I can't imagine what the people who worked on the game think about JK, it must be pretty conflicting

​@Fionapollo Yeah, Duke stated it on an episode of his Duo podcast with Designing For (Design Dorks Gaiden), in which he hoped that people would give the game a chance since people were working their hearts out into the game. I don't want to say anything else since I don't remember much about the podcast nor which episode it was, though I remember that it was made around 2022, so last year, and that it was a very short section. Aside from that, I don't remember anything else. Also, I believe that with enough creativity, any work can be separated from its own author. I mean, just look at games and fandoms such as Undertale or Five Nights at Treasure Island or any other fan created work. I believe it to not only be possible, but inevitable. Well, except for capitalism.

​@@Fionapollo the game apparently has trans characters and the mc can be trans so i think the team is not transphobic but they could just do it for the public image, we never know

​@@anna.owo. eitherway, if that is really true it's nice because we know Rowling would hate that. But if that's real, I'm surprised that didn't come up in discussions more often..

@@anna.owo. It’s good to cover your bases. I don’t think Fiona is transphobic but they could say it for the public image, we never know.

100% There's so many awesome works out there, many of which I only got into recently. Great to broaden your horizons with art and media. :)

For me, if I found out someone whose work I liked is a piece of shit, that's the moment I stop supporting them with any consumption on my end. I did it with Elon Musk, Hugh Hefner, Amber Heard and plenty of others.

I find it really hard to not separate the art from the artists. I’m not huge on the film industry or other entertainment industries as they are super shady, and f’d up, but I love filmmaking.

@@youtubesupportsfascism Go away troll. Your disingenuousness is embarrassingly clear. At least try to engage with the thought process instead of a word. Misogyny being one example, could just as easily be replaced with any other negative element I disagree strongly with. I'm not even in the US, I'm in a country where no political party can get 2% of the vote if they openly oppose abortion rights. So even the "religious" parties try to avoid talking about it if journalists ask during interviews.

That honestly sounds unhealthy. if I were you, I'd talk to someone about that, try to work some shit out. If it's stopping you from enjoying your daily life, it's a problem...

@@swishfish8858 Okay. I'm in therapy anyways so I'll bring it up next time I go thank you

That's a very good point, I even watched her video too. I'll add it on 👍

in her time women and young girls were often blamed for their abuse, not believed in, and therapy not readily available or even existed... when i was 4 i was SA'ed by 3 men, incest was involved and was during the tail end of the US daycare hysteria... none of my abusers went to jail., and was forced to live with them. all this due to policies made to not have young young kids testify in a court of law. also add to the fact that, half my family felt i was lying... then you have therapist whom are not qualified to do their job. When i was trying to see if I had autism or not at age 28... the therapist i tried to get a phycologist referral from told me point blank "autism means you do not talk well... but you talk find you don't have autism" i come to find out the clinic does nothing with autism.. and used me to make profit... as i had keot repeatedly told them i was looking into being tested for autism. hell even some of the therapist i had when i was younger did not handle talks over me SA well... >.>;; i had very few good therapist when talking about that... one tried to police my speech, one kept trying to make me start from square one after nearly 5 years of working through it... while another was a resident just recently started practice... with each new therapist i had to start from square 1 and keep reliving my SA by having to talk about it -_-;; that doesn't help.

@Aza Hokkaido it may have been hard when she was younger to get a good therapist, or get therapy at all, but it's 2023, and she's a grown ass woman. If she's actively not putting in the effort to tackle these mental hang-ups, then that's her problem, and again, she's making it OUR problem. I know the caveats of gaining access to mental health, but you still have to try if you know you're clearly going through stuff.

She makes money from the royalties of the game, as she does with every HP product ever released.

Yeah, HP always seemed ok but pretty overrated to me.

I mean Sonic and TMNT haven't really evolved either? There's "more" of it but they've been very consistent, or as you put it stagnant. Harry Potter has a lot of very interesting stuff in it that holds up even once you're not a kid (the series meditations on the power of love, destiny and fear stand out to me) and the series is extremely good at making you feel like a child. My mom-a conservative christian who usually doesn't like magic in movies--watched the Harry Potter movies and really liked it, and she's well past the target age. Plus, the worldbuilding and lore is amazingly intricate and detailed, much more so than the franchises you mentioned. Obviously Sonic and TMNT have their fair share of interesting lore but with Harry Potter it runs really deep (and it helps that the series mystery plotlines give fans a reason to care about the small details).

While I don’t think you’re wrong, I do think you’re being pretty unrealistic. Ethical consumption is a very complicated subject and you’re holding people to a standard you yourself can’t uphold. You mentioned child labour in the chocolate industry, but you watched this video on your phone/ laptop etc which was also made by child labour. You could’ve gone to the library to avoid having to pay Apple, Microsoft etc. directly, but that would be inconvenient so you bought your own. By your own logic you also support child labour and aren’t allowed to advocate against it. When it comes to art vs. the artist, there’s millions artists out there who make billions of art pieces. Whether or not a work should be supported depends on a variety of factors, whether or not the artist can still profit, how bad the thing they did is, have they grown since they did the bad thing and even more. Again I don’t think you’re completely wrong, I just think you need to have a little more grace for the average consumer. There are people who turn a blind eye out of greed sure. But there’s many more out there who turn a blind eye because there are no other options, or simply lack the knowledge. Most people do want peace and for things to improve, but it’s really hard to do that in this system and the average person can’t be 100% ethical all the time.

@@amethystimagination3332 I’m not speaking of necessities like phones, or computers. We need those and don’t have a choice, everyone needs a phone. I’m speaking about optional media conception, or again, chocolate. There is ethically produced chocolate for not even that much more money. I do in fact uphold this. I don’t buy optional items or goods that were unethically produced. When I buy chocolate it’s from companies who don’t exploit children. Sorry to say, but you can in fact make good decisions. No one is forcing you to support an artist who has done and continues to do terrible things.

@@amethystimagination3332 And for the point of the artist. Like you said, there’s a lot of artist, I’d rather support those who are actually good people since there’s so much art.

@@SinShady. I do agree you can buy ethically produced products, I buy vegan makeup for that reason. But I also think it’s important to keep in mind that the majority of people are simply uninformed, and you can’t always assume bad intent from people for choosing what’s available to them. I think most people are trying to do good, but don’t have the proper tools or education to do it.

@@amethystimagination3332 Yea totally. If they’re uninformed that’s understandable. But a lot of people who are informed simply justify it. My comment is really going after those who are informed and still proceed to support bad business practices.

good, go play it then. the transformer cult really needs to go away.

I say still play the game. Not really detrimental to trans people if you buy a game that JK Rowling has no involvement with. You enjoying a game is not going to put people into trauma or harm. Alot of people on Twitter who say that crap are doing it for clout and want to control your money. Actually I advocate to play the game because those folks have gone insane to the point of harassing people offline, actually drove a trans person to commit self end for daring play the game, a vet admitting she committed war crimes and comparing them to playing the game, and folks literally using a trans girl's death to justify boycotting the game and Rowling had no part of. Honestly based from some of the trans folks I know, the "activist" actions have done way more harm to trans folks than a game would ever do. In all honesty, i really am not for trying to cancel JK Rowling because essentially, you will be doing the very thing that the fire and brimstone Westboro orthodox religious nuts tried to do when Harry Potter came out. The whole cancel JK Rowling thing already happened in the 2000s when they are trying to demonize Rowling and say anybody who read/watch her series worshiped Satan. And frankly I do not want to give the satisfaction of them getting what they want.

@@ThatOneMotherfucker She still makes money off the game, and Rowling herself outright said that any HP product bought is an explicit endorsement of her views. So basically everything you just said can and should be disregarded.

It's not even worth it regrdless of the shitty people it's attached to. The game about wizards and magic has less spells than Skyrim: a game criticised for its lack of spells does in a single category, and most of them are just reskins anyway.

@@Hawkatana...and? How is that the case just because she said so? Is the money going to some anti-trans-people organization or something?

They already got paid when the game was complete. This is just how game development works

This, very much this. Too many times I've encountered and argued with people like this, and...every time I try to tell them "Hey, the art is not the artist, you don't have to treat it like garbage because the artist is a garbage person" ,they just don't get it for some reason, or try to come up with some half assed excuse like "Well, the artist still makes money from this so the art is still tied to that person!!" Wish I understood how tf they come up with that answer and then expect me to change my entire mindset to accept that.

@@Stormrains372 easy. They don't like something, and want no one to like it either because "I don't like it".

Thank you so much for this boss take, reading through these comments was getting really depressing. It shouldn't even be a debate, enjoy what you enjoy and take the best from it. Don't try to control others or make strangers and their works conform to your narrow prejudices.

@@masonrockwood7732 there would be a lot less conflict if people just went "you know what as long as its not hurting anybody do whatever you want".

@@Temperans that's a child-like mentality. Really Lame.I don't like a lot of things but I'm not going to tell others to think the same as me. If you like something,cool,whatever. We are all different. 🤷‍♀

Wait in what way is Amphibia’s creator problematic?

@@sentienttwig7043he’s not, some people in the crew are but Matt is a saint and this is slander

Also i'm gonna add another case like this: 1. I like Tim Schaffer and Neil Druckmann games but need to stay away from their Anti-Gamergate view 2. People liked Konami classic games but keep boycotting Konami themselves 3. I respected The Critical Drinker's work and his POV but ignoring his political antics 4. People liked Minecraft but staying away from Notch (the case is same as J.K. Rowling) 5. People liked James Woods while ignoring his ultra conservative views 6. I respected CD Projekt for their principles but keep watching their reputations And the list goes on

We put him in a longboat until He is sober

ha ha mr krabs

Alright, send in the hitmen

So you're basically saying it's wrong to have fear whether it come from personal experience or what others say from there or views?

@MASTER-OF- EVIL no fear is fine everyone has things there afraid of but it shouldn't define your beliefs or you as a person. It's healthy to be afraid but like everything in life if you let it control you and dictate things about you then you need help. That's the fear that can't be passed on to the generation.

This assumes a specific line of ethics. Allow me to demonstrate. I am someone who dresses as a man to have sex with girls. Because I was born with a penis..[insert more discussion of how my genitalia relate to my identity]. Contrast that with: I am a 34 year old man who spent 8 years in the U.S. Navy, a strong electronics background, and who was raised in a family of small factory owners and have worked in various factories and even medical environments for a decade from the floor labor to supervisor positions. I have hobbies in gardening, computer programming (and being distracted by playing games... too much), and have an obsessive compulsion to archive our scientific and industrial progress in book form. If you want a tin foil hat, I have several models available for how deep down the rabbit hole you wish the aliens to abduct you. Oh, and I do have ambitions to raise a family as a good father and husband. Which is the stronger sense of identity? When I was a child, I immitated my mother. She was who I spent most of my time with - so why wouldn't I take an interest in painting my nails? Though, there was the fact that my father put a hard stop on colored nails. It was acceptable for me to use the clear coat/foundation for the purposes of doing what mom did. And - how many women would appreciate a man who could help take care of her nails or hair? Mom ran a sewing business out of the house. I learned a lot about sewing... and not the piddly little machines you see at the store - these were heavy nylon and kevlar bags and such. Grandma was the one to teach me how to fish and how to bait a hook - while grandpa sat in his recliner and read the paper or watched the news - she was out showing me the plants or taking me down to the river or helping in the garden. I helped Mom prepare dinner most days and about cooking from her. The way I see it, the modern hyper-fixation on gender is no different to the pokemon cards, brief yo-yo fad in 98/99, and the teenage epidemic of girls starving themselves or throwing up to try and be as thin as barbie. It's a manifestation of a similar pattern. For highschool girls around 2010, it was everyone being a fey, vampire, etc. Is the ethical thing to immediately recognize someone's claimed identity? Should my mom and dad have assumed that I was a girl the moment I painted my nails like mom? Was my grandma some kind of suppressed male in a woman's body? If we merely want to entertain these things as idle musings - we could ask whether or not my grandma was uniquely masculine... or just from a depression-era family who grew up with a dirt floor and slat walls. For that matter, Mom grew up with two older brothers and was quite a bit of a tomboy, herself. There again, in a largely rural area - what girl wasn't? But these are not idle musings. There is an industry that profits from performing therapies and surgeries on people that have permanent consequences. Is it ethical to be affirming of the claims of, in my view, children who insist they are the opposite sex? Or, flipping it around, is it ethical to affirm that a corporate system can profit off of the chemical and surgical alteration of children? I generally side with no. The problem as I see it is that children are growing up without a practical grounding in living and media portrays lampoons a mirror-maze representation of society. What sane and rational boy would want to grow up to be Peter Griffin? Or almost any portrayal of men in modern media? What skills or trades do they have to connect with? What we have, right now is a world where teenagers and young adults have been failed by the education system with a bleak resume while staring down an adult world that is alien and foreign. This would exacerbate any kind of anxieties and intensify obsessive, compulsive, and autism spectrum trends. Gender identity isn't the problem. It's purpose and tangible grasp that is the core problem that needs to be solved. The focus on gender is an obsessive-compulsive behavioral expression where someone believes that something is a problem and a ritual-like solution is the solution. Sex and gender are less identities as they are descriptors. Leading someone to believe they can find an identity in a sex or gender category is highly unethical. Being a man is one descriptor of who I am and is not a prerequisite for the majority of things I can stake an identity on. Avid hostility, denial, and rejection is also a common part of obsessive compulsive patterns. It is the duty of those senior in society to mentor those who are younger and to protect them from exploitation, even when it is not understood or appreciated at the time.

The only time you should use the line of "you play hogwarts legacy" in an argument against someone is if they only brought the game because they want to actively support transphobia via buying the game, sometimes multiple times

@@Aim54Delta the profit point is a symptom of a medical system that prioritises profits over lives and health overall. By making a system that prioritises health over profit that point wouldn't exist in the first place. Trans healthcare saves lives and by refusing it you harm trans people

@@juliancalero8012 There is no difference between self harm rates among those who have medically transitioned, in whole or in part, and those who have not. The statistical incidence of hospitalization for self harm among homosexuals is around 20% +/- 2% for all nations with such records. 40% +/-4% for those identifying as trans. This holds true for the U.S., Greenland, Iceland, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Norway, etc. Background population rates of self harm had minimal impact on results, as did public policy - whether the cultural norm was acceptance, rejection, or outright criminality - self-harm rates showed no statistically significant trend with public policy, background culture, or medical care standards. We could develop magic that poofs a person into the opposite sex as though they had been that way their whole life, and I doubt it would result in greater overall quality of life improvements because the compulsion to change sex is very probably a response to obsessive-compulsive triggers that will not be resolved by the sex change. It will simply find another manner to manifest itself afterward and, left unresolved, lead to greater overall strife. So, the simple answer is no. "Gender affirming care" does not save lives and ranks as a generally malign pattern of exploitation by industries in even socialized nations. Now, if you are an adult and are insistent on using your money or have found some kind of insurance company that will pay for surgery and hormone therapies - then, I won't say you can't make yourself look like whatever we have the technology to do. However, I will insist that the term "woman" and "female" be exclusively reserved for humans with two x chromosomes and that various legal policies follow from that. Language serves practical functions and subversions of objective reality will not be tolerated. Why women would want to become men is beyond me, but it is women who generally require the specification. Men don't care if a woman walks into their bathroom or follows them down the street. This has been afforded them for many generations and to now proclaim that men can declare themselves women and make use of those privileges is deliberately disruptive. There are many people who do undergo sex altering surgeries who want no part of what have become efforts to harass women by a cult of activists. The answer is no. We will be banning these things, stripping funding from places that exploit children, and prosecuting people who were knowingly ignoring signs of OCD and related issues to pursue permanent alterations of said children. You are free to be angry about that, but see my prior post. It is our responsibility to do these things. Now, on the plus side, there will be significant advances in the coming years regarding control over the body's tissues and cellular mechanisms. We already have unlocked significant life extensions (yamanaka factors) and will be able to induce a wide range of tissue development phases. Regrowing limbs is just the start, and it will likely be possible to fully restore people to a functioning, healthy body within the next 30 years, probably faster if AI advances continue without horrible accidents. At that time, if some are still insistent on living as close as they can to the opposite sex (or some hybrid thereof), I won't stop you. However, the current fad of injecting children with hormones and subjecting them to surgery is to stop.

Just a quick question from a fellow trans to a fellow trans. Do you ever have read those "transphobic" things from her? Just because i never seen those anywhere. Because i only can see that she had a statement about biology (which is just saying science facts). And statements about prisons... Well, if someone had the surgery then alright, but if not then they should go to there what their ID card says. I mean it not a good idea if we start to put people into gender specific prisons based on what the person saying without any physical proof because then cis people will try to exploit it (especially cis men, since there is crimes that famously not too lucky to go in prison with if your inmates are men, so some cis men very possibly will try to exploit something if their is a chance to do that). And to be honest after that specific fake news i would be concerned too in her place even if it was just a fake news (because she had experienced that crime by a cis male in her past which makes unserstandable if that article made her worried with that kind of experience). I hope this comment won't be misunderstood. And also i hope the phrasing of this comment does make sense.

Don't forget that trans "activists" (re: twitter morons) don't speak for all trans people. JKR is one person, she speaks for her views. The activists are a bunch of people who claim to speak for all of us, but are only serving to paint us into a corner of further hate. Please keep your disdain focused on them, not on those of us who are now in the crosshairs because of their fat lips and fast fingers.

I feel like most of the heartbreak coming from the debate over the J.K.Rowling is due to how many kids idealize and idolized her in their childhood. So, when she finally showed her true colours, all of the fans spread into two extreme groups: The ones that feel deeply betrayed by Rowling and want to erase everything connected to HP from their lives (and fight anyone who dares to still like it). And the ones that HP became some sort of safety blanket for them, and will defend it no matter what, because otherwise, it would mean abandoning their comfort zone. Tbh. I kinda was in the second group for some time, until I realized that my attachment to the series may be a little bit unhealthy. I still like HP, but after some reflection, I understand where the criticism is coming from. I don't support Rowling directly, but still interact with Fandom as a whole.

i saw someone on quora says nothing is worth than being a TERF. so the bar is low or high

One of the things I do to actively not support jkr is only buying secondhand and avoiding it as much as possible and destroying all resale value of that secondhand stuff. My HP books are drawn over so that they won’t circulate if they were to be given to a charity shop. Preventing her creative works from spreading. Also it’s just really satisfying

Damn that's a really good point, i should've done that. I was kind of rushing to get this out due to not feeling good, but I'll try to have everything be be more rounded in the one

@@Fionapollo hey, always gives you an excuse to make a part 2, or follow up video when you feel better

It wasn’t who he voted for, it’s the specific candidates he donated money to that people took issues with. A few of those people were known for trying to pass/passing legislation harmful to LGBTQ+ people.

People think money is everything, that it's the entire point. It's way more than that. Money is a stand-in for power.

She never said that she will harm anyone for anything. So let's just try not to make false accusations.

@@tovarishchfeixiao ...that's the stupidest logic I've ever heard. Imagine, for a moment, that "I never said that" was a valid legal defense for committing crimes you've been caught red-handed doing. JKR has been caught donating to anti-trans causes, has made her intentions very clear through her essays and other works, and has gloated about her hate campaign's success numerous times at this point. If you're gonna cling to "she didn't do anything DIRECTLY wrong" after all that, then I guess you're probably on her side.

@@swishfish8858 Never heard about that "donations" before. So, any proof for what you saying? Because sorry, but if i not see a proof for a statement then i not give it more trust than a hearsaying or gossip. And also, without any proof it just a false accusation. (which is kinda illegal anyways)