• standarduser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    Shoutout to when she made a character that gets mocked for wanting to end slavery and then cast a black woman to play her

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    …,… theres no reason to beat peeps over the head with it.,… I don’t like this whole told u so thing peeps like to do…,…

    imean- yea, preddi awful—obviously—

    the potterheads sounds more like an insult in this context,.,…

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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        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

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            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