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Also it’s not just a trans thing.

JK is incredibly ableist and regularly mocks disabled people. For example one of her latest books is basically painting all chronically ill people as malingerers.

"Influencing" is putting it mildly. Funding organizations with political power is a lot more than that.

This is why i call it separating the artisr from the finance, the art is just unavoidable collateral damage.

Perfect example. Hp Lovecraft is dead he gains no money, rallies no crowd, calls no lawmaker. JkR does still, she does gain money and spends it trying to make the world worse for people.

They are....billionaires. That is the common denominator of horrible people. They think that because they are rich beyond measure that their opinions should rule the world. The world would be a much much better place if we were rid of the pestilence of the billionaire class and maybe the '$100s of millions' class. No one gets to being a billionaire by being completely honest, law abiding, fair, moral and ethical. Rules must be ignored in the quest for superlative riches. Those rules are only for those who haven't become rich enough to ignore them. Even if they seem like benign benefactors, scratch the surface and you will find they are, without exception, evil.

Her work did really speak to me as a young gay child in a place where it wasn't ok. That being said, fuck the author. Haven't gone to the park, haven't seen the new movies, haven't played the new games, haven't given her any money in well over a decade.

In this day and age, I can easily find entertainment elsewhere. Anyone else that loved her work can do the same.

Also she's anti-ace

It's kind of too late now, though. Even if we somehow convinced every person on earth to never buy another Harry Potter anything ever again. She's already got her bag. That won't go away and she'd continue being a horrible person with the power of wealth.

Elon's wealth, on the other hand, exists almost entirely as a fiction of his businesses' value. He is much more susceptible to being taken down with them.

I never understood all this whinging about J. K. Rowling. I was a big fan of Ender's Game when I was younger, but when Orson Scott Card revealed himself to be an asshole I dropped those books like a bad habit and everyone I knew did the same. There wasn't even really any debate over it. Why are we still wringing our hands about Harry Potter?

I won't be able to ever shake off Harry Potter. I don't think of points and views, I just love the idea of another world to go learn magic away from tech and such. I don't read or listen to it for the political points, or whatever other trash she's hidden in there. I read it as a form of escapism.

That said, I absolutely hate Rowling. Its to the point that I'm embarrassed that I still like HP. I hate the stupid shit that pukes out her mouth and I hate that she's taken a whole fanbase down with her. I feel like, for just liking Harry Potter, I'm labeled a patriarchal fascist and that's not my stance at all. I was an innocent kid who fell in love and still uses the books as a safe place to this very day, because I took refuge in them when my mother was at her most abusive (physically and mentally).

When I was very young, I would daydream about being taken away from her to another world to just dive into magic. She would lie to my therapists and tell them I had mental issues and a vivid imagination. That it was all in my head that she abused me. No one believed me when I cried for help. I was tested for autism. I was diagnosed with severe ADHD. There was one time in elementary school where they tried to take my video game magazine from me in class and I was hysterical, screaming that the demons in my head were going to get me. They blamed the magazine material (Mortal Kombat with Baraka on the front cover, I actually still have it). I was treated as though I was crazy.

It was pure, mind-altering hell. She won every court case over my father on the mere fact that she was my mother. She tried to have me put on numerous drugs as a kid, but my father refused and they needed both parent's consent. So that's why I'm irrationally addicted to the books. I'm not so vulnerable as to have my moral views swayed by a fictional story. However, Rowling will never get another cent from me if I can help it. My audiobooks are already pirated as is. I just wish I could be more honest about loving the books without having to tell this story and not be regarded as a piece of shit for liking them.

best I can do on Rowling is look forward to the inevitable Behind the Bastards coverage

Also like Elon Musk, her origin story is a load of bullshit.

Fuck rowling, i pirate ALL her shit. Ill do what i want with the I.P. and nobody can stop me.

Related to the reply at the bottom, it's so weird to me whenever people try to either separate or hand-wave Lovecraft's attitudes from his works as if they're not super-duper fucking related to each other. Like, you can't say "HPL was a elitist xenophobe but Shadow over Innsmouth is a good story," like one doesn't follow the other... "therefore, Shadow over Innsmouth is a good story."

Part of what makes Lovecraft's horrors so timeless dispite their frankly dated and unsatisfying writings is how he tapped into a primal fear that most other creatives have abandoned, the fear of "the other group."

/rant

I may elaborate more/clarify some things if people want to talk about it

Moreover, ACAB includes Harry Potter