It always blows my mind how much of a heel JKR is. All billionaires are bastards, but you have to be among the worst people on earth to use your billions to be a high profile bigot.
Piracy and staying away from popular public spaces to discuss it. Discuss it in private with your friends who know to pirate it. But if you’re on the show’s subreddit, you’re helping bring attention to a wider audience, which helps the show.
Just don’t. Let it go and move on. The entire purpose of this post is to say that even if you pirate it, watch it alone, and never speak of it, it is still unethical.
People love to think of themselves as an ally to the lgbt community, but when it reaches the difficulty of not watching a tv show (or game) from a transphobe using the proceeds to fund hate, that’s simply too much.
but you have to be among the worst people on earth to use your billions to be a high profile bigot.
What she is is stubborn. So when she uttered a belief that much of Twitter found offensive, they piled on her, and she dug her heels in. It’s a pretty common pattern - people called out on something (even something objective) will resist, and resist in proportion to how strong the call-out is. Our brains just were not designed to handle being personally criticised, ridiculed and insulted by thousands of people at once.
You can see this if you track her statements over time: from the moment Twitter piled on, she was a lost cause.
And yes, I do partly blame those people for what she has become, even though she could change her mind - I think we have a moral duty not to join in publicly berating people so as to avoid exactly this kind of negative effect, and people failed at that.
Piracy if you absolutely must.
It always blows my mind how much of a heel JKR is. All billionaires are bastards, but you have to be among the worst people on earth to use your billions to be a high profile bigot.
Piracy and staying away from popular public spaces to discuss it. Discuss it in private with your friends who know to pirate it. But if you’re on the show’s subreddit, you’re helping bring attention to a wider audience, which helps the show.
And that just underlines that it is much easier to simply not watch it.
Eh, “piracy and not discussing it publicly” is pretty much how I watch most shows. Especially since I quit Reddit. It’s not much of an extra step.
Just don’t. Let it go and move on. The entire purpose of this post is to say that even if you pirate it, watch it alone, and never speak of it, it is still unethical.
People love to think of themselves as an ally to the lgbt community, but when it reaches the difficulty of not watching a tv show (or game) from a transphobe using the proceeds to fund hate, that’s simply too much.
What she is is stubborn. So when she uttered a belief that much of Twitter found offensive, they piled on her, and she dug her heels in. It’s a pretty common pattern - people called out on something (even something objective) will resist, and resist in proportion to how strong the call-out is. Our brains just were not designed to handle being personally criticised, ridiculed and insulted by thousands of people at once.
You can see this if you track her statements over time: from the moment Twitter piled on, she was a lost cause.
And yes, I do partly blame those people for what she has become, even though she could change her mind - I think we have a moral duty not to join in publicly berating people so as to avoid exactly this kind of negative effect, and people failed at that.