Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion

• 3xBork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah so are about a thousand other people who worked on the franchise/product in question and may be very positive influences on the world.

  Trying to deny a literal billionaire money is symbolic at best.

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  • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you feel the same about boycotting Tesla?

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    • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you are a fan of HP your choices are few and far between. If you are a fan of electric cars there are tons of better options that you can choose from. Adding on to that, the level of investment in both are orders of magnitude apart. What’s more, Tesla as a company has a reputation of having lots of issues of racism and misogyny in the workplace. I think the two are different enough that one can buy the blame and boycott Tesla without any hypocrisy.

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    • 3xBork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t because they’re not really comparable.

      There are many other electrics cars, many of them better and/or cheaper and entirely interchangable. Boycotting Tesla just means getting a direct substitute instead. There aren’t any substitutes for HP games because the IP itself is the whole point.

      Another point where they’re not comparable: Tesla isn’t the problem here, Elon is and he needs to go. And he can be gotten rid of, which is the entire point of the boycot. Meanwhile, there is no mechanism legal or otherwise to remove Rowling from the equation. The only thing boycotting HP products achieves is making the companies involved fail and preventing any further HP products from being developed. So what does that achieve?

      So: given that boycotting Tesla is both easy and effective, while boycotting HP is a personal sacrifice for no real effect, surely you see the difference?

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      • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hmm on the one hand is kicking trans people down the stairs and on the other hand is having enough self discipline to not consume a single franchise. Yeah you are right, this is a tough choice! lmao, personal sacrifice my ass

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      • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It isn’t for “no real effect”. Harry Potter is a merchandise empire and it’s important to see how that empire is being utilized. Open fan support of Harry Potter is often used as a direct open signal of anti-trans support and Terf ideology. Here in Vancouver where we have a larger than average population of trans and non-binary folk and more open accommodation to the community a billboard was put up saying “I❤️ JK Rowling” downtown because it’s a more nebulous dogwhistle that wouldn’t immediately ping Canada’s hate speech laws so that the whole “Freedom of Speech” ploy could be envoked.

        Whenever a new HP franchise item comes out there’s a wave of people who flood online and sometimes in person trans spaces who use the barest veneer of support of the franchise as a means to say some truely awful things about trans people. Some don’t even bother mentioning the franchise they just participate in the storming because they have the opportunity. Those spaces are often filled with vulnerable people seeking support and solidarity and these rushes can leave isolated trans people without community for weeks.

        Here in Van someone wearing HP merch in any queer space is throwing up a flag that says “I am potentially an unsafe person.”

        Article of the billboard.

        www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5722244

        You don’t have to give up your books. All we ask is that people do not white knight the author or the publication and merchandising empire which keeps making her influence into an active memetic weapon.

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    • Firipu@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tesla has a ceo that is arguably evil, his companies flaunt labour laws and he is actively trying to make the world a worse place through multiple means.

      The HP writer makes mean tweets and complains women use her bathroom.

      Both are bad people, but not even remotely at the same level.

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      • arya48@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        you are wrong . She is not just making mean tweets, she is doing very real damage to queer people and women irl.

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