[ SECRET POST #5567 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5567 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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(image is from The Story of Yanxi Palace)


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[image is from One Piece]


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[Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed]


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[Centaurworld]


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[Hogwarts Legacy]


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[How I Met Your Mother]
















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If people gave up on every piece of media that had something or someone problematic involved, that would be the end of all media, I think.

That said, I totally understand if people feel the need to boycott or just can't stomach certain pieces of media from certain sources. I believe everyone should be able to choose for themselves what their lines are without it meaning that they themselves are problematic for liking something problematic or problematic-adjacent. But I think awareness isn't a bad thing, in and of itself. And I can see how some people might consider consumption of certain pieces of media to be support for someone problematic and/or an implicit tolerance of them/their views.

[(Anonymous)]

Particularly when those certain pieces of media specifically endorse those views, eh?

[(Anonymous)]

"Something problematic" is not a flat field. If you really can't see any difference between, to grab two examples not related to JKR, Mel Gibson's whole bigotry deal and Stephen Fry's weird opinions about how no women like sex... I mean, seriously? It's so disingenuous to handwave JKR's virulent and active anti-queerness with "well, everyone's problematic" that it's hard to believe good faith.

[(Anonymous)]

"No women like sex" is, I suppose, not the worst opinion a gay man can hold, however misguided... but in my own experience as a gay man, women aren't the ones uninterested in sex so much as I am uninterested in thinking about sex with women.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Okay, but I don't believe that because someone likes Hogwarts Legacy, they are transphobic; or that because someone likes Lethal Weapon, they are antisemitic; or that because someone likes QI (2003-2015), they are misogynistic. I believe you can like things that come from terrible people [like Roald Dahl (racism), John Lennon (spousal abuse), Dr. Dre (physical assault), Jay-Z (stabbed a producer), Norman Mailer (stabbed his wife), and on and on and on] without it meaning that you agree with any of their views or actions.

[(Anonymous)]

But choosing to support Hogwarts Legacy is choosing to fund a virulently bigoted author who uses some of that money to put towards hate campaigns. You may feel sad that this is happening, but that is a consequence of your active support.

And you may say you can choose this action without it reflecting on you, but... how, seriously? You getting to play this game out of all the games in the world are clearly more important than the queer and Jewish people telling you of the harm you are actively causing. How the hell does that NOT tell me something about who you are?

[(Anonymous)]

And not to mention, even if JKR wasn't even tangentially attached to this game...it would still be a weird blood libel racist game. Hell, the only reason it's getting a pass is because it's attached to Harry Potter.

[(Anonymous)]

DA, but seriously this. I sincerely doubt that people would be fighting so hard to defend an Indiana Jones game released in 2022 that doubled down on the racist bullshit in Temple of Doom. Like people can play whatever they want, but if whatever you want is “whimsical antisemitism: the game” then get comfortable with being judged accordingly.