• young_broccoli@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      196·
      2 days ago

      I know :)

      Although, both are unnessential and both enrich awful ppl so…

      Also, according to the logic on the meme you shared, its wrong to critizise ppl who buy diamonds because we should let them enjoy them.

      Also also, critizising someone for economically supporting awfull ppl by buying their shit is not stopping them from enjoying said shit. Nobody is taking away their stuff, they can ignore us. However asking ppl to stay silent in the name of someones enjoyment is an attempt to make us give away our freedom to express our opinion.

      Also, also also, What if I like critizising them? Let me enjoy it goddamn it!

      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
        414·
        2 days ago

        Apples to oranges buddy but you clearly aren’t here in good faith, so, get fucked. I’ll not entertain you.

        • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
          111·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, let JK Rowling do the entertaining, it was kind of her job.

          In February 2023, Rowling participated in the podcast The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, hosted by former Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Phelps-Roper and produced by Bari Weiss’s The Free Press. The show purported to add more nuance to the controversy surrounding Rowling, but in practice it mostly served as another pulpit for the author. Part of the draw was that Rowling gave a forthright interview on her beliefs about trans people for the first time. “I believe, absolutely, that there is something dangerous about this movement and that it must be challenged,” she said.

          She then compared trans people to Death Eaters, the evil collective in the Harry Potter books that are often read as a Nazi analogue. “Some of you have not understood the books. The Death Eaters claimed, ‘We have been made to live in secret, and now is our time, and any who stand in our way must be destroyed. If you disagree with us, you must die,’” Rowling said. “They demonized and dehumanized those who were not like them.”

          “I am fighting what I see as a powerful, insidious, misogynistic movement that has gained huge purchase in very influential areas of society,” Rowling continued. “I do not see this particular movement as either benign or powerless, so I’m afraid I stand with the women who are fighting to be heard against threats of loss of livelihood and threats to their safety.”

          https://www.thecut.com/2025/06/heres-what-j-k-rowling-has-really-said-about-trans-people.html

          We can all laugh at the pure fiction she invents, and quietly ignore how the money we give her affects the world around us.

    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
      62·
      2 days ago

      No matter what you purchase under capitalism, you are supporting bigotry and oppression to some degree. There is no escaping it. So instead of arguing about the arbitrary line at which the degree of separation is far enough removed before you can enjoy something without guilt, maybe start talking about actually dismantling the system that allows them to oppress others to begin with?

      https://slrpnk.net/comment/21718703

      I’m a little confused why you suddenly want to start drawing lines about what’s ethical.