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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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I don’t really know any trans people that still fuck with HP. They all think Joanne is a fucking bigot, because she’s successfully campaigned away the rights of trans people in the UK.
Do you really not understand that when you give money to a property owned by a billionaire, they get some of that money? Any money you don’t give them is objectively less money they have. That’s why they’re so, so incredibly mad when people boycott. If it didn’t work they wouldn’t care if you did it.
Somehow I don’t think you’re going to find ‘shut up about transphobia or you’ll make it worse’ to be an argument that resonates with many trans people.
Yes, Harry Potter boycotts definitely work and definitely make Rowling very mad.
So your evidence of saying boycotts don't work is to show an example where people did not in fact boycott something? Of course a boycott won't work if only a small group of people boycott. That's not the fault of the people calling for the boycott. It's the fault of the people who didn't boycott lol.
The game was massively popularised across social media because there was a small, very vocal and self-righteous group trying to organise a boycott. It was free advertising that built hype around the game's launch.
What you don't get is that a few millions less won't matter if she's dead set on pouring all of it against trans people. Zealots will dump everything they have into something they believe in religiously. And she's just one (disposable) individual. Even by some chance she stops, someone else will pop up. This is just playing whack-a-mole.
Rowling is just a believer. But who pitted her, who's taking her money, who's going to go after the next sucker and the next after that? You just don't get it that your target is wrong and whoever's driving you to act rabidly against each other ain't your friend.