not to mention everyone has literally consumed something made by someone probelmatic by accident and literally didn't know. yes, even the morality abusers screaming at people
EXACTLY YES. We are living under capitalism, and capitalism as a system is inherently broken. Look no further than Nestle and their various scandals, including that thing they did starting in the 60s or so when their aggressive ad campaigns of infant formula in low income countries led directly to the deaths of thousands of newborn babies. (ironic considering the man who founded the company invented infant formula specifically to save the lives of babies who couldn't be breastfed. Capitalism ruins everything!!!)
Did Nestle know ahead of time that their ad campaigns would kill babies? Maybe not, but they did know that forcing a product onto a demographic that could have easily just breastfed their babies for free and couldn't afford extra expenses like that would have hurt the population at the very least, and they did it anyway, because under capitalism, profits always come before people.
A lot of people have been dedicated to boycotting Nestle at least since the 80s when the controversies first started coming to light, and what happened? Well, Nestle is still one of the leading food companies in the world, likely because not supporting them at all is almost impossible. Even if you avoid packages with Nestle's logo on them, a whole bunch of food companies are still owned by them anyway, so you'd have to do extensive background research on every food company that could possibly be involved before you buy anything from the grocery store, and even if Nestle isn't involved, those other companies have definitely done unethical things too, because that's how our broken system works.
Once again, most people don't know that jkr is a terrible person whose actions are directly contributing to the suicide rate of trans people in the UK going up. Most people don't even know what a trans person is or that it's even an option! Yes, we're raising more awareness overtime, and ideally, in a world that was actually fair, jkr would be stripped of her power the second she started hurting people and you could actually support Harry Potter without supporting her.
Do you see me yelling and screaming at people for buying a Switch 2 even though it's a shit-ass console made by a large corporation who is currently suing individual people for millions of dollars in "lost revenue" and trying to make emulation illegal, which would lead to art being lost to time forever due to worse punishments for archival piracy??? NO, I DON'T, BECAUSE I'M NOT A GODDAMN HYPOCRITE AND CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD WANT THE NEW TOMODATCHI LIFE THAT LETS YOU BE BLACK AND NONBINARY!!!!!
I still remember a story I heard about how a bunch of jewish people were open about playing Hogwarts Legacy and they were harassed to hell and back for supporting antisemitism. I also remember when someone sent Hogwarts Legacy spoilers to my inbox even though I had expressed repeatedly that I wasn't going to play it and didn't care to play it, simply because I defended the notion that you can appreciate a fucking book series without endorsing everything about it and everything the shitty author is doing now.
I am so fucking tired of this. I HATE jkr. I hate everything she stands for and what she's doing is not fucking okay. I can also appreciate a book series made by a white feminist who had a few bad internalized biases BEFORE she went off the rails and became a full-blown terf. These ideas can coexist!!!
People who do this shit; I kindly ask that you stop defending the notion that bad people can't make good art. It does much more harm than good.
Thanks for coming to my fucking ted talk.
