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conspiracydawg · 9 months ago

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idk. I understand why people get very up in arms about harry potter (even though I do think that the pendulum has swung too far toward "these books are pure evil"), but it does bother me when folks say "don't pirate it it's just as bad." I could vaguely understand that if it were about, like, not blogging about it, because I can see that that might be "providing engagement" (I loosely disagree with this not only because tumblr is largely unmonetizable but because the average tumblr doesn't have many followers and is unlikely to make a dent in the prevailing anti-harry potter mindset), but it seems to me that this is becoming less "don't financially support jkr because she uses those funds to campaign against trans people," which is an extremely valid and important approach, and more "don't consume jkr content because it is capable of corrupting you and turning you into a jkr minion," which I oppose on principle

#me bitching #people do have brains and are capable of consuming content without irretrievably incorporating it into their belief structure #nor do I think that every mention of a 'morally impure' book has to be bookended by 'I'm consuming this critically'#because I think that's just. the normal way to interact with the world #idk I do think people latch on to harry potter because it's easy #it was immensely popular at a time when a lot of this site was at an age to be contrary #and I think it's very easy to look back at something and be like 'oh yeah I hated that for moral reasons'#I will be generous and say there could be some overlap with the type of pirate who's like #'I'm engaging with the media I pirated so I'm generating revenue for the creator in a roundabout way'#so it would make sense to reverse that and be like 'if you pirate something Evil you're generating revenue for the creator in a roundabout #way'#I'm losing the thread of what I was talking about but I think my thesis here is just that people should consume content they enjoy #and sure go ahead and consume it critically but again I think that's just the default way to do it #if reading harry potter is capable of turning you into a transphobe or racist or what have you #then I think your beliefs about equality were so shallowly held as to be not worth mentioning

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