• Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    terminally online

    Mind if I steal that description? It’s perfect ♥

    As for your comment; I am completely fine with people deciding for themselves that they no longer wish to engage with some creation because its creator sucks - that’s a personal choice and I can respect that decision easily.

    What I don’t get are people who try to force that decision onto others, like going “…but the author is shit, so you HAVE to now hate literally everything they ever did, and if you don’t then you’re just as bad as them”. No, I don’t have to do anything of the sort - and that does not mean that I support the world views of the author. It only means that the world view of the creator hasn’t ruined the creation for me.

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      1 year ago

      Oh I certainly did not coin that term, so steal away lol

      But yeah I definitely get your point. I suppose my only real contention is that I don’t personally feel it’s as ubiquitous of an opinion as it sounds like you do.

      That said, in the case of someone like Jk Rowling I will absolutely bring up the topic should she come up. I have quite a few trans friends, and she has and continues to actively take steps to attack and harm the trans community. Liking the art she has created is one thing, but supporting someone who seeks to invalidate the existence of people, particularly those I care about, and take away essential care is another. I probably won’t start a fight about it, unless you’re a real shit head, but I take no qualms with standing up about it either.

      Quick edit to note that’s not directed at you, to be clear. More just continuing to make the distinction I was before.

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        Quick edit to note that’s not directed at you, to be clear.

        No offense taken, don’t worry ;) And I fully agree … Rowling is a malicious, hateful, spiteful asshole and deserves all the hostility she gets online and IRL for what she said, did and still does. There are no two ways about it.