ITT:
-> normal people understand this is a gentle reminder as we celebrate Israel getting punched in the mouth that there aren't actually any good guys here
-> absolute jackasses frame this within a false dichotomy to criticize OP, and then 'splain false dichotomies to the rest of us like we're stupid.
no a straw man is where you assign a position to someone that's weaker than their actual position and go ham on that instead.
like this asshole bloviating about OP being pro-Israel when OP didn't say or imply anything about Israel in the post, and has made it clear in the comments that that is not their position.
"I don't care for chocolate ice cream."
"OH YEAH WELL WHY DO YOU LOVE VANILLA SO MUCH? YOU KNOW BOTH OF THEM ARE BAD BECAUSE SUGAR RIGHT?"
bro it's hard to take you seriously about "nothing is black and white" when you began your screed by asserting a false dichotomy and assigning OP a position on it that did not express, implicitly or explicitly. that's a thing fascists do. it's not only dishonest and disingenuous, you're flipping an ally into an enemy and turning solidarity and awareness of queer rights issues into infighting to the detriment of our entire movement. be better than that.
i'm the exact age that HP was targetted at, and i loved to read fantasy. sounds like a perfect fit, yeah?
they're shitty fucking hack work that i only bothered finishing because my dipshit teachers and classmates turned every damn thing into harry potter and i couldn't participate in class without context. i didn't pick up on everything problematic bc i was young and very not woke, but i picked up on enough that they were often very uncomfortable reads. the plot structure is horrid, the protagonist has even less of an arc than Rey from Star Wars, the worldbuilding is downright lazy and inconsistent, and the tone is condescending as fuck.
my critiques were not welcome then and i got dismissed as a joyless contrarian who hates things just to hate them. now people are finally bothering to think critically about the series i'm hearing ALL my old complaints from back then echoed back to me and it feels so god damn vindicating.
it's not your perspective, it's awful fiction for stupid people with shitty taste.
new rule: you excuse yourself from the boycott, we excuse you from the benefit of a doubt.
read another book
man who called the identity police in this thread?
whoever made this used | instead of I and it makes me crazy
disengaging from the franchise altogether has the added effect of not helping to keep it culturally relevant to JK Rowling's benefit.
c'mon dude. it's kids' books. it's lame kids' books. it's the macaroni and cheese with dinosaur nuggets and chocolate milk of fantasy series, except it's the lame off-brand macaroni and the breading is soggy and slides off and the "chocolate" milk is carob water.
rowling is a hack and a monster, you owe yourself better than that regurgitated tripe.
ITT adult fans defend their support of a genocidal monster with nostalgia feefees and thought-terminating cliches, but the ones calling for her boycott are the ones being unreasonable and reactive.
man what a stupid thing to say to a group of people advocating the boycott of someone who is tirelessly campaigning and actively spending more money than god to try to eradicate them for years on end now.
we're not upset that we had to think about her you colossal moron, we're upset because she is using her money and influence to do untold harm to trans people at large, meanwhile the public ignores us and continue giving her money anyway, telling themselves excuses about the art and the artist or whatever.
THE ART FUNDS THE ARTIST, AND THE ARTIST IS TRYING TO GENOCIDE US YOU FUCKING MOOK. and the only way to not realize that this is what it's about, is to be actively ignoring us about it.
this is exactly like the Chik-Fil-A people funding programs to mentally abuse queer kids into being "straight" and you assholes shrug and go "it's just a sandwich and i like it" as you continue to actively fund god damn child abuse. except it's at an even larger scale.
and here you are condescending to us about it, because you're comfortable sticking your fingers in your ears. walk into the sea please.
it's not OP's problem that you aren't literate enough to process things outside of a false binary.