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Calbinan t1_j7kk0qm wrote

If this wasn’t having a real world negative effect on people, I would think it’s funny how all these people who hate Rowling over her opinions… are revealing themselves to be a whole lot uglier on the inside than she is. She has an opinion that they don’t share. Fair enough, but a lot of these people are brimming with hatred and trashing people’s lives over it.

“Witch Hunt” is a frighteningly accurate term, because they are passionately hunting innocent people. Seriously, if they get their way and everyone associated with it is canceled, who hurts the most? Rowling? No. If she never makes another cent, she is still going to be filthy rich forever. The people who actually worked on the game, and the streamers who just want to play a game and possibly supplement their income that way are the ones who are going to hurt.

I’m sure most of these bitter people think they are on some righteous crusade, but the only effect they can have is negative. They cannot make the world a better place this way. Not everything is worth hurting people.

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wahchewie t1_j7klney wrote

Thank you for your well articulated thoughts, I agree.

It's like mob behaviour. A mob doesn't really know the details or what they really want, they just work each other up into a frenzy and damage things

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SpacemanSkiff t1_j7mkz3f wrote

>“Witch Hunt” is a frighteningly accurate term, because they are passionately hunting innocent people.

Have said before and will continue to say, these people act like Inquisitors because that's what they wish they were.

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Dry_Grade9885 t1_j7or4ws wrote

Very true and there are actually laws in alot of countries that make these behavior and taking the law into your own hands illegal and for a good reason it's like this kind of thing didn't happen on the regular in the middle ages

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Serious_Hand t1_j7ljpz9 wrote

Unfortunately, jkr has real world power because how well her books did. She has also been almost always displayed in an "angelic" light by media. Which means everyone ignores that she is actively trying to hurt other people.

In case you are wondering, how she is wielding that power is awful. She's actively trying to make being trans in the UK illegal, this isn't hyperbole, read that manifesto she wrote. Every single positive trans legislation that's been considered she rallys against and puts her money towards hurting people. This is going on in Scotland right now, which by the way was only making the paperwork to transition legally have less bureaucratic nonsense and cost the government less.

Why should a children's author wield political power? Why should she have the right to negativity effect other people's lives? Her reach is negatively effecting far more people, yet I don't see you criticizing her at all. She makes the world worse.

How would you suggest these people make the world a better place? By just allowing their rights be steamrolled? It's very obvious to me that you've never had your right to exist be a subject of public debate.

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Yotsubato t1_j7mr499 wrote

No one is going to become a TERF just because JK Rowling is one.

Her opinion sucks but it’s not going to influence people one way or another

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Serious_Hand t1_j7mrmr1 wrote

That's not true at all. Look at how well terfs in the uk have done by using her fame and money to normalize terf propaganda.

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Calbinan t1_j7ngbvu wrote

I would suggest they make the world a better place by focusing their efforts on the root, Rowling, instead of cancelling or stream-bombing people who are just playing this game, or trying to starve/cancel the people who worked on it. The Harry Potter brand is popular enough that it might take generations to fade away even if this game never existed. From what I’ve read, Rowling doesn’t even get royalties from the game’s sales, and was only paid for use of her IP. Whether this game died in development, sells poorly, or gets buried by the backlash, Rowling is fine. She’s not the one who stands to lose anything from this witch hunt, and I don’t believe for a second that playing the game is equal to agreeing with her.

TL,DR: I’m not concerned about Rowling’s wealth. I’m concerned about the normies who are gonna get burned, unjustly, over this controversy.

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LillBur t1_j7n8huc wrote

Money dude, it's called money. And when you have more money, you'll have more speech. It has nothing to do with her being a children's writer.

What would you prefer??

/s

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roscid t1_j7movkm wrote

Framing it as a mere difference of opinion makes light of the suffering of the people she is actively working to dehumanize. I don’t think opinions that dehumanize others are worthy of respect or consideration, and speaking out against them, even in an “uncivil” manner, is fully called for.

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Calbinan t1_j7ncpqk wrote

Fair enough. My main issue is with the great big mob that’s attacking people who are not her. As I said, she’s rich. She’s gonna stay rich. The devs and streamers, for the most part, are not. They stand to lose a lot.

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roscid t1_j7oc5dv wrote

I partially agree, but it depends on what you classify as an attack.

Doxxing, ad hominem, verbal abuse, etc, yes those are attacks.

Advocating for people to boycott the game, educating people on Rowling's attacks on trans rights or criticizing bad aspects of the franchise itself are not attacks. That is activism, and you are not entitled to be unbothered by activism in the public sphere because that would defeat the entire point. Not being able to earn money from something that people are actively protesting against is not a tragedy. This is not the only game out there that people can play or stream.

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