![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athousanderrorsvia http://ift.tt/2EKGe80
transpeter:
reminder: fans of harry potter who are speaking out against jk rowling and by extension johnny depp aren’t them saying they hate the harry potter universe. they’re saying that they won’t let their love of fiction distract them from the very real wrongs done by the creator of that fiction and an actor in that fiction. the reason fans of harry potter are saying not to support fantastic beasts isn’t because we don’t care about that universe and its characters, it’s because rowling and depp are heavily profiting off of it and some of us aren’t interested in giving our money to an abuser and an abuser apologist. we know we aren’t gonna make them go bankrupt lmao, but we can at least try and prevent them from getting more of our money.
and those who are done with rowling have every right to be. she has a long history of queer-baiting, antisemitism, terf idealology, and now she is an abuse apologist. as i’ve said, she has also done very good things for her community and for countless charities, but someone doing good things cannot then give them a free pass to do bad things regardless of how “small” you think those bad things are. the only thing that can come close to fixing bad things is at the very least an apology, but rowling rarely makes genuine apologies and is known to block people who call her out.
the people who love harry potter and its world and are still calling out rowling and depp aren’t then saying they don’t care about that universe, they’re saying that the real world and the wrongs done by people in it are more pressing than a fiction about a boy wizard.
(Your picture was not posted)
transpeter:
reminder: fans of harry potter who are speaking out against jk rowling and by extension johnny depp aren’t them saying they hate the harry potter universe. they’re saying that they won’t let their love of fiction distract them from the very real wrongs done by the creator of that fiction and an actor in that fiction. the reason fans of harry potter are saying not to support fantastic beasts isn’t because we don’t care about that universe and its characters, it’s because rowling and depp are heavily profiting off of it and some of us aren’t interested in giving our money to an abuser and an abuser apologist. we know we aren’t gonna make them go bankrupt lmao, but we can at least try and prevent them from getting more of our money.
and those who are done with rowling have every right to be. she has a long history of queer-baiting, antisemitism, terf idealology, and now she is an abuse apologist. as i’ve said, she has also done very good things for her community and for countless charities, but someone doing good things cannot then give them a free pass to do bad things regardless of how “small” you think those bad things are. the only thing that can come close to fixing bad things is at the very least an apology, but rowling rarely makes genuine apologies and is known to block people who call her out.
the people who love harry potter and its world and are still calling out rowling and depp aren’t then saying they don’t care about that universe, they’re saying that the real world and the wrongs done by people in it are more pressing than a fiction about a boy wizard.
(Your picture was not posted)
