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[โ€“] clarinet_estimator@lemm.ee 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

The reason is simple: she's a bigot. She has been successful at pushing her transphobic agenda into UK law, and she will continue to move across the spectrum because hate only knows how to hate even when they succeed.

This is exactly the reason I'm shifting from just warning people that buying her shit is immoral so outright calling them bigots for supporting bigotry. If they don't want to be bigots they can stop giving her their goddamn money.

[โ€“] JillyB@beehaw.org -5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I disagree with this take. Buying HP stuff won't change anything. Not "it will change very little". It will actually do nothing. If the whole world decided to stop buying anything that gave her money, it wouldn't change her lifestyle at all. She already made enough money that she never has to consider it for her lifestyle. People might as well enjoy what they like and not have one more thing weighing on their mental health. Let people have their escapism.

[โ€“] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

You should encourage them to pirate any JK Rowling-associated content, then, if these people cannot be assed to read different books by different authors. Though obviously you're 100% correct in that she's already fabulously rich and a boycott of her works will not materially harm her. Also, she still has devoted bigoted fans who love being paypiggies, so a boycott is impossible.

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