#but if you are even vaguely self-professedly politically involved with the lgbt community and are still buying HP merch

[iamnottoph]

like look its one thing if you still wear the ravenclaw scarf you got for christmas when you were 16 and just dont follow the news much or whatever but like. if youre an active *fan* of the series im not sure how you'd possibly miss it. and yeah consumption is not (necessarily) activism but this isnt like some isolated online poisoned discourse, she is an active and vocal contributor to political groups and campaigns that have, among other things, recently resulted in puberty blockers for trans kids being banned in the UK. her bigotry has real-life consequences.

"no you're wrong everyone here knows that jkr is a terf but they hate us / don't care" my gay psychiatrist who specializes in lgbt patients needed me to explain to him what a "terf" was. another counselor i saw whose brother is gay and works in the transfem community had a harry potter mug on her desk. the political beliefs of a british fantasy book author are not high on american news priorities. please be real. your knowledge is specific and not world-shattering in the scheme of things. venture outside your bubble for 5 minutes and talk to someone who isn't a white queer in their 20s.