The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Gradine]

She has repeatedly insisted that the "vast majority" of her fans, I've seen her claim up to 90%, agree with her.

There isn't really a moral grey area here.

 

[CleverNickName]

It's a very slippery slope when you start boycotting, do you just boycott the one thing or do you boycott the whole company and everything related and how far down the money road are you willing to go?

Depends on the issue, and it depends on how close you are to it, and how much of a sacrifice you can responsibly make. Nobody can tell you who to boycott, or when, or how. It's not so much a "slippery slope" as it is an optimization problem: how can your spending dollars have as much of an impact as possible, without causing harm to those uninvolved.

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For my part: I will not support JKR directly (by buying her books) or indirectly (by following her on social media, or visiting the HP attraction at The Happiest Place On Earth, etc.) Boycotting her publisher is an option, but she's just one author that works for them and my boycott might hurt a lot of other writers...so instead, I write emails and leave comments on her publisher's website informing them of her antics and explaining why I won't be buying anything with her name on it. (I've sent six so far.) But anyway. The point is a boycott will look different from person to person.

 

[Umbran]

It's a very slippery slope when you start boycotting, do you just boycott the one thing or do you boycott the whole company and everything related and how far down the money road are you willing to go?

It depends on what you want to achieve.

 

[Gradine]

Every book, game, movie ticket sold directly contributes to the encouragement of legal efforts to promote trans conversion therapy and criminalizing trans kids' bodies (and parents who dare to be supportive!). This isn't a post-capitalist nightmare shell company shell game, it's not a Good Place impossible dilemma; it's a direct 1:1 relationship. See a movie, hurt a trans kid.

I suppose that's up to every person to decide if that's worth getting to see Eddie Redmans' exploits traipsing around in increasingly poorly constructed Wizard land or not.

 

[trappedslider]

It also brings up the age old debate about separating the creator from the created.

I have a number of gay friends who love the books that Orson Scott Card has written but they don't like his views about how they live their lives.

 

[trappedslider]

On the other end I have one friend who is refusing to buy anything with even the hint of being made in Florida due to the recent bill.

 

[Gradine]

There is also a difference between personal beliefs and open and direct advocacy and activism. I also think some of ya'll are deeply underestimating the amount of cultural cachet that JKR has. She has already caused significantly more harm to people (and especially innocent kids, please do not forget these are largest target here) that Card ever could or will. And that won't stop while her franchise (and therefore she) is still relevant.

 

[Cadence]

It's a very slippery slope when you start boycotting, do you just boycott the one thing or do you boycott the whole company and everything related and how far down the money road are you willing to go?

Or the slope the other way where you never boycott anything no matter how heinous?

 

[trappedslider]

So I guess I should throw away and tell some people not to buy Battlefield Earth despite it being a decent imo book.

 

[CleverNickName]

So I guess I should throw away and tell some people not to buy Battlefield Earth despite it being a decent imo book.

I mean...that's what I did, but you do you.