There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series https://www.theverge.com/report/901818/hbo-harry-potter-jk-rowling-transphobia

[webshinra@pouet.chapril.org]

@t54r4n1 @verge (to be clear, I'm not interested, as I read HP with pleasure like in 2004, and have grown away from it since.)

[tsyum@thepit.social]

@verge @BenGleason thank you for being clear about this

[t54r4n1@mspsocial.net]

@webshinra try reading it again and seeing if you notice the antisemitism this time. or Dobby, the happy slave

[webshinra@pouet.chapril.org]

@t54r4n1 I did that, and saw that (the antisemitism is arguable, the happy slave not) and many other stuff, thanks. I would not recommand my nephew to read those, and for reason far worse in my eyes than those two points.

So please, don't tell my what media is ethical to watch, which is a very different point than contributing to their economy/popularity.

[tenthousandworlds@retro.pizza]

@verge @smilingdemon

I don’t know who needs to see this, but if you’re hungering for #UrbanFantasy, Juno Dawson’s amazing books are sitting right there. #Witches using #GirlPower to fight transphobes & the patriarchy. #A24 just needs to have her adapt them, license some Spice Girls tunes, & they’ll have a winning #movie “quadrilogy”.

#JunoDawson #HMRC #HerMagestysRoyalCoven #Queer #Transgender

[art_codesmith@toot.cafe]

@GGMcBG @verge Yeah but when she tried to make new "mature" stories, no one wanted to read them, that's the thing.

[2something@transfem.social]

@ignacyy@mastodon.social @verge@mastodon.social

The key difference is that it's quite difficult for most people to avoid big tech entirely, since most employers and even many governments require you to have a Google, Apple, or Microsoft account. On the other hand, it's pretty easy to just not watch any HBO shows, with comparatively few situations where you might "have" to (if you're a professional film critic, or if you're a kid and your parents are trying to make you watch it for some reason.)

[yourautisticlife@mast.yourautisticlife.com]

@verge

I thought about boosting this, but since it is behind a paywall.... I'll pass.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@agowa338 I’ve read the room, and the room I’m in tells me ”jokes” about violence against trans people are exactly what we don’t need right now.

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@art_codesmith
And any good artist can recognize where the lines stop in their art.
She told her story, made many, many, manymanymanymany millions. It will carry forever.
It's time to stop and let others tell new stories.

Unless its purpose now is to become something more than it was.
And what will that be?
In any case, fuck that. It's just another story about a magic baby. We've been here and beat this rocking-horsie to death.

[bardmoss@autistics.life]

@verge
Paywalled

[zbrown@floss.social]

@ddetmer @verge Dickens may have had racist tendencies, but he consistently wrote against slavery.

He's also long dead.

[purple@tech.lgbt]

@art_codesmith @GGMcBG @verge if only that were true, Robert's Strike series seems to do ‘well enough’, and the BBC has kept adapting them just about as fast as can write 'em — with by no means small viewing figures.

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@verge I'll decide what is ethical for me to consume. But hey, thanks Verge for being the world police.

[liohn@mastodon.social]

@ariaflame @dm29 @jaredwhite @verge OK so please explain to me how consuming Harry Potter is unethical.

[ddetmer@mastodon.social]

@zbrown @verge Sorry possibly so. I meant the comparison that we don’t know enough about any writer to say whether they agreed with our own beliefs. To judge JK because of things she says are hers …well I just think HP is a great kids book series. I apologize if I defamed Dickens. I don’t like Tom Cruise because of his behavior and beliefs which aren’t mine but Top Gun is still a great movie.

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@liohn @ariaflame @dm29 @verge folks, look at this profile's (extremely recent) history. troll account. no reply necessary.

[liohn@mastodon.social]

you really like to put words in another's person mouth when you can't argue.

[zbrown@floss.social]

@ddetmer @verge see but the problem is it isn't a simple matter of unsavoury ‘beliefs’, JKR is trying — largely succeeding — to enforce her worldview on us all, and openly boasts of using her HP income to do so.

Perhaps if she like Dickens were dead we could view HP much as we do Roald Dahl's stories: fun books for kids, at least when lightly edited.

But she's very much alive and kicking, and making the lives of millions worse.

[ddetmer@mastodon.social]

@zbrown @verge She’s disappointed most of her fans and she’s rich enough to not give a . I get it. But there are more than enough people who want to destroy our country democracy planet
Most of those people are doing more damage than JK could ever do.
I think we put her on a pedestal. We loved her rags to riches story writing in the fish and chip shops and stuff like that. Wanted her to be better and she isn’t. She’s shallow minded and self centered. That’s her life. Not ours