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Fuck Harry Potter. All my homies love Little Witch Academia, The Owl House and Ikenfell.
I listened to the Lolita podcast and it’s a great one hosted by someone who was a fan of the work and it made an impact on her.
It seems so many interpret the story of Lolita to be a tragic love story like Kubrick and it seems Rowling. It seems as though the more sensible interpretation would be a story about abuse and power where you’re made to empathize with the unreliable narrator, Humbert. I always get an ick when I hear people say it’s a love story.
where you’re made to empathize with the unreliable narrator, Humbert.
And in the afterword Nabokov basically says that if you actually empathize with Humbert you’re an idiot 😆
Media literacy is not particularly high as of late
Sadly not a new phenomena. Does seem to be getting worse though…
Crucially, the invitation to JKR’s play came in 2018, when Epstein was already in jail. You have to be a special kind of dumb to still invite him to a public event at that point. Compared to that, Bill Clinton’s contacts in 2002-2003 have pretty decent plausible deniability - it’s at least possible that he didn’t know that Epstein was a pedo rapist + pedo pimp, since that was before any accusations against him became public.
Clinton knew. He had briefs from US intelligence, even after out of office, a practice the current president stopped as I understand, The best news service in the world.
Would they have reported on alleged rapes, would they even have been informed of Epstein’s human trafficking activities in 2002? Maybe’s that’s why he allegedly broke off contact in 2003. Don’t know either way, but there’s definitely more "maybe"s here than for inviting him in 2018.
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Hermione Granger? But she’s not black… am I missing the joke somewhere?
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Huh, never knew. I always assumed it was Emma Watson who narrated it.
It was the original run of cursed child in London that she was Hermione
Don’t remind me of that work. Somehow the witch managed to produce a work rivalling the terribilit of her transphobia.
IIRC there are only a couple characters who have their ethnicity specified in the books. But it has been a while since I read them.
Is this all true? Jesus Christ, this Epstein corruption spread everywhere.
And just like with the Panama Papers, I’m afraid at some point we’ll all collectively forget about it and no billionaire will be eaten.
until further notice assume every billionaire is implicated
I hate to be that person, is there a source for each bit of info? This is def something I’d like to come back to in future references.
Yeah I hate Rowlings antics as much as the next lemming, but I’ll never understand why posts like these have no references. I don’t even take them seriously, the burden of proof is on the poster, not the reader.
Every claim should come with a direct link or reference.
Thanks for saying that! Was reading it and obviously not a fan of either named people, IMHO public death penalty should be brought back for preventing the course of justice! But wild accusations and click bait.
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburghs-jk-rowling-hits-back-33355200
Some news sources have picked it up.
She’s denying it, but Steve Bannon denied knowing anything, when he worked directly with Epstein on a propaganda piece to get people to forget that he was a child sex trafficker. Rowling also just had her super yacht removed from all marine traffic services, no AIS, no port logs, nothing.
But TLDR, numbers 1, 3, and 4 have just been found in the Epstein files.
The others are also verifiable.
I looked at a couple, short on time today.
Personally inviting Ep to the show is refuted by her, and several news reports say it’s a fake. But in the Ep papers, there is correspondence of her team and his team working out tickets for someone. An invite did happen to someone on his team. I suspect the invite was a wide dump to the aristocrats and someone did take those tickets.
For aid in the legal expenses of white supremacists, she donated to a lot of filthy causes. No question. This happened. But the wording insinuates more than the blind payments.
Best I can tell, the things are true or kind of true, but didn’t go down exactly the way they’re worded here. No question, she is awful, keeps ties to awful people, and funds awful causes, but the wording here is chosen carefully to enrage the readers and create engagement.
The simple truth behind all of this was and is awful, but it’s become boring. You can only write journalistic things about her dumpster fire so many times, so they’re trying to come up with new angles to keep it interesting. I’m not sure that I disagree with it, honestly. Even if it’s a little underhanded, keeping her in the awful spotlight is probalby worth it.
I was too young and innocent to understand the evils of this world when I fell in love with the books. They were my escape in otherwise a shit childhood. I hate the author, but I cannot hate the stories that made my childhood better.
You’re allowed to look back fondly while being aware of the problems. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Life is full of nuance.
Separate the art from the artist
If you can separate the artist’s power and wealth from the art, this works, typically when they’ve been dead for a while. Otherwise you’re just feeding them. Rowling herself has used the money to actively fight trans people’s rights in court and used her influence to give her actions public backing.
That’s not what I would call it. I think people say that to justify continuing to consume the art, which thereby supports the artist. I think support and consumption should be stopped entirely.
I know many don’t agree but i even think we shouldn’t pirate the art. Consuming it perpetuates relevancy, even if not giving support financially.
Similarly, I enjoyed the movies even though the books weren’t my personal style. A whole lot of people were a part of that who don’t share any of her views or knew the type of person she was at the time.
I mean I loved Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game and the get turned out to be a right-wing loon. It doesn’t change how I feel about the book.
JK Rowling’s bookshelf
The fourth point is grammatically a bit awkward; not sure what it’s saying
so. epstein’s cover story as a finacier was that if you wanted to get a thing funded or to get a project in front of someone who could greenlight it, you could go to him and he could introduce you. he was referred to as a matchmaker for money. the reality of course it turned out is that he was who oligarchs went to when they wanted to fuck a vulnerable child from the global south. so when people went to him to introduce them to someone else, how he knew whoever it was was from his experience as a professional sex pest.
I mean it’s true he was a rapist and human trafficker, but he did also do a lot of other things for his clients too.
There’s a lot to be against here, but to me, that last one is especially bad
…,… theres no reason to beat peeps over the head with it.,… I don’t like this whole
told u sothing peeps like to do…,…imean- yea, preddi awful—obviously—
the potterheads sounds more like an insult in this context,.,…
Yeah I thought JK Rowling being a bigoted sac of shit was fairly well known so I just assume anyone who’s a fan of her works just doesn’t mind her bigotry and therefore aren’t really worth interacting with. But I suppose there’s people who learn new things every day.
Also, Potterheads is the self applied name for the fans.
This is why the post focuses on her connections to Epstein and white supremacists. They might not care about transphobia, but being an ally of Epstein is broadly seen as bad unless you’re a cultist or a pedophile.
I like her work. It’s a pretty large part of my childhood. I very much oppose her views though and I will not pay for anything that benefits her financially.
I loved Harry Potter. My whole family did. We had arguments over who got to read the new book first when it arrived. We were all deeply, deeply invested in the lore and the stories and the characters. We watched all the movies together. It was one of the few things that the whole family enjoyed. Something we could all share in together.
But no one loved it as much as my Gran. She was the biggest potterhead you have ever met. I have a photo of her dressed up in her Gryffindor colours at Potterworld, grinning like a lunatic with excitement. She bought every version of every book, every paperback, every hard cover, every audiobook. She was crazy about it.
So after the stroke, when she was lying in hospital dying, when she couldn’t speak, could barely move, we went to the hospital every day, and I read Harry Potter to her. And I’d feel her give my hand the faintest squeeze, and see the tiniest twitch of a smile when I got to the best parts.
I cannot describe how precious those memories are to me. They were the last moments I got to share with an absolutely incredible person, and those books were a lifeline in that bleak moment. A source of joy and comfort when we all needed it most. A brief shining light in her last days. So however important those books are to you, believe me, I get it.
And I still walked away from everything to do with that world and those stories, and never looked back, because no matter how much they mean to me, they don’t mean as much as the trans people in my life do.
I mean I also used to like libertarians and the church of Satan as a kid too
What has the church of Satan done other than be awesome?
You’re likely mixing up the church of Satan with the satanic temple. https://satanismtoday.net/articles/difference-between-church-of-satan-and-satanic-temple/
Yeah, I was a member of the church of Satan in highschool, now a member of The satanic Temple as an adult.
That’s very possible.
The books and films meant a lot to a lot of people, and I can’t blame people for loving the world she created for them.
I don’t regret having read the books and seen the films. But I’m also done with her and will never give her money again.
The books message seems at odds with what she is now. I think her position on trans rights was challenged, and she dug in, and was attacked harder, and she joined those that supported her, and was thrown into extremism. That said it seem she was epstein friendly before all of this, so, wtf.
Voldemort got the giants on his side by promising them equal rights. The end of the book says “and all was well” because Voldemort was defeated, but what about the giants? Why didn’t anyone help the giants?
The giants were genocided by the good guys that first forced them into ghettos and starved them, bombed them regularly, then came in with overwhelming force and killed their civilians, none of that wokery to get in the way like in real world situations where the libs are all like you can’t wipe millions of people off the the face of the earth. /s
I say because she’s apparently buddy buddy with Israel intelligence agent extrodinaire, the great honeypot.
During the American civil war, slavers said if slaves were freed, they’d sit around all day getting drunk instead of working. When Rowling wrote the house elf Winky, Winky was freed and then sat around all day getting drunk on butterbeer. Why did Rowling put pro-slavery propaganda in a children’s book?
ohgosh thus is another one if those… topics where ur not allowed to be a centrist, hm? >v<
i feel its reasonably easy to not know about it…,… maybe that’s just me tho—
EDIT: okay fair… that was being too general, I honestly don’t even read the whole post image and just the header and went like sigh-here we go again… which still very much paints me in a bad light, but oh well im not gonna remove the comment so peeps can see how evil and nefarious I am
You can be centrist, it just means you support pedophiles.
sigh fair— in this case ye
I don’t think I understand what you mean by “be a centrist” on this topic.
iguess what I mean is this:
- on the one hand - damn - transphobia bad obviously, also supporting evil-doers is bad obviously too
- but also woa do we really have to pull these topics into media consumption too?.. havent we already declared that theres no moral consumption under capitalism or whatever?..
so like -… gosh, this exact thing happens to me a lot… where both sides make total sense to me, even if I am on “one side”… but acknowledging the “oponents” points is already a bad thing,…
i remember peeps bein really angry about that one potter game— and like… yeah. sure. makes sense to not play it. but like… ubisoft is well known for having common sexual abuse and stuff in their offices, but most peeps still play that companies games…,…,
i didnt play it.,… but I found the whole discussion weirdly inflated… but like, in this case, with Epstine… well thats obviously going way beyond a simple onion 🧅 and… obviously shouldnt be supported and stuff----
wow thats a long comment
Well I think we should be shaming people this much for playing Ubisoft games. And since Hog Leg is the game that caused the stir, that’s the game I’m going to put My time into caring about.
havent we already declared that theres no moral consumption under capitalism or whatever?..
Sure, but there’s degrees of evil. Learning how to paint from Bob Ross on youtube is only a tiny little bit evil. Going on Lemmy to defend Harry Potter is a much bigger evil. I’m talking about shades of grey here. Everything being bad still allows for some things to be worse.
hm yea oki Ur right, that makes sense >v<
i was under the assumption that this post was - saying even more bad things about a person we already know is bad just for the sake of it, or maybe to fuel more hatred or something… which - it only does the first thing of.,.,.
EDIT: updated pronouns
*Ur, I use capitalised pronouns
If you’re tired of hearing about how awful Rowling is, believe me, we’re even more tired of having to talk about it.
But despite everything, she continues to be an incredibly influential voice, especially in British politics, and she also continues to be staggeringly wealthy thanks to the money she makes from the ongoing exploitation of the Harry Potter brand. And she uses that money to directly fund attacks on trans rights. She’s successfully swayed major British supreme court decisions that have had a devastating impact on trans people in the UK, and her influence has been a not insignificant factor in the current British government’s absolutely feckless response to these tragedies.
My neice had to leave the UK just to get healthcare, and now refuses to return because she’s so scared of what that country has become. And she’s one of the lucky ones because her family had the resources to get her out. There are many, many far less privileged people in the UK literally dying from lack of care. And Rowling is doing everything in her power to make it worse.
Yes, I get that we often have to accept that we will consume and enjoy media by people we don’t like. I’m not going to yell at someone for still loving Sandman despite the heinous shit that Gaiman did. But there’s a difference here. Gaiman isn’t leading an army of rabid followers trying to legalize his right to rape people, and throwing millions of dollars at supporting that cause. He’s an awful person and I hope he disappears forever, but the harm is done. The story is out there. Anyone who does even the briefest Google search on the guy is going to know to stay the fuck away.
But with Rowling, even talking about her media without spending a penny on it is still actively supporting the popularity and wealth of a person who is using both to inflict mass carnage on trans people. She is literally costing lives every single day that she continues to be a wealthy and influential figure.
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It must be exhausting interacting with 🇺🇲 peeps
hm, who r u referring to? >v<
im not merican…
I know.
You said “topics where you’re not allowed to be a centrist”
Which for Americans is basically every topic.
Must be frustrating dealing with us lol.
