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I'm not sure we have a more explicit example of an artist who said "hey, if you give me any money I will definitely go hurt this small group of people with it, so.... money please??" Some situations have nuance. She smashed all nuance with a sledgehammer years ago.

Stephanie Burgis@stephanieburgis.bsky.social

This. TBC, the reason my family won't support anything HP-related is NOT because I have some grand moral view that it's only acceptable to support work created by good people. It's because she is literally, publicly using the $ from her books/show/games/etc to do bad things that hurt people I love.

And yet there are people who have written way more fucked up books who still aren't doing the level of damage she is. This is not about what's in the books it's about what she's doing with the money

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I get it and I agree. But I don't like how much conversation today has been about "well they were always bad books" as if what we should do now would be different if they were good books. She is so far past that, you know?

Oh yeah. I get that. I have voiced my inability to get past the fat phobia another thread, but to add context I had been trying to read them because my (now) ex loved them so much. I just decided to say they weren’t my thing and not poo-poo on her love of them. That was long before now though.

It’s kinda like people are taking JK being horrible to also bash the books like they’re bashing Twilight, except that Stephanie Meyer seems to maybe be an ok person since she hasn’t made headlines being a trash person. At least I hope she’s an ok person.