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HBO Says ‘Harry Potter’ Series Will ‘Benefit’ From J.K. Rowling’s Involvement: She ‘Has the Right to Express Her Personal Views’ [Variety]

variety.com Can Harry Potter HBO Series Overcome J.K. Rowling Transphobia?

HBO supports J.K. Rowling's involvement with the new "Harry Potter" show as the core fanbase grapples with Rowling’s controversial views on trans identity.

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She has a right to express her opinion…where? In the Constitution of HBO? Do the Ts and Cs specify a right to free speech? Don’t talk to me about rights HBO this is a choice
- This. She has the right to express her opinion, she doesn't have the right to be provided a platform or the right to require others to listen.

HBO, what the fuck are you doinnn 😰 😭
😤
- Being out of touch is totally normal human David Zaslav's thing. Remember the Batgirl movie?
  
  Oh, could you explain this to me like I'm five? I haven't watched the Batgirl movie and I'm not aware of the surrounding context
- Reading the tea leaves I guess. Fucking assholes

Honestly I haven't been watching HBO because it was too expensive. Now the boycott has a deeper meaning beyond my wallet.
I'm no longer a cheapskate, now I'm a person with principles. Hell yeah

i also have the right to boycott everything in her orbit, because she is a hateful disinfo spreading terf who is going to get people hurt.

fuck terfs

If everything were fine that would be one thing you could have a discussion about, how much intolerance do you tolerate etc. When thethe senate and state legislatures are literally chomping at the bit to genocide the trans then enabling that rhetoric can only be collaborators to evil. Not to mention that trans aren’t the only group she has targeted. Working with the “maybe the nazis weren’t so bad” person when America is falling to the nazis is certainly a choice

Well, the show might benefit from me pirating that thing. I do have a right to ~~flip the bird towards TERFS~~ express my personal view ¯(ツ)/¯
- Why do you want to watch or promote something created by an outspoken bigot, especially where her active involvement is touted as a selling point?
  
  If you want to avoid every movie or show where a bigoted or otherwise very critical person or company is heavily involved in the production, the range of movies or shows would shrink drastically. So instead of not watching I pirate. The bigots don't make a profit off of me and we're all good.

Obligatory new trivia from JKR
- Not excusing Rowlings general behavior but a thing about the toilet habits of the past is that it does actually check out in real history.
  It did not matter if it was the palace of Versailles or even the church. Men often just relieved themselves in whatever corner they saw fit.
  Women were more discreet by relieving themselves under their ball gowns where they stood, then walk away like nothing happened.
  Chamber pots did already exist, Versailles did provide them, people just didn’t bother.
  The main difference with Rowlings version is that wizards did clean up after themselves magically while muggles used servants.
  Except if you didn't live in a class that had servants, the market place was known to accumulate huge amounts of waste as the day went on. For peasants the toilet was “outside”
  
  "The Harry Porter Universe (not fixing the spelling mistake) is bit of a Bullshit liberal fantasy about jamming magic into a heirarchal modern education institution and perpetuating class and wealth divides via it" -- Loosely paraphrasing a PhilosophyTube vid-essay, and a good final nail in a coffin of one's fandom, if anyone's looking for that sort of thing.
  This fun fact is just the...splatter on the uh *checks notes Dementor's cake, i guess =/

Sure. Never giving a cent to HBO again
- that's the spirit! I will join you.

Yeah no shit, and people have a right to tell she is an asshole who doesn't deserve their money.

Fully leaning into the Trump-era zeitgeist, I see.

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