you cannot extricate the art from the artist.
Yet you can. The books (plot) themselves don’t become bad because of that.
Given that Rowling is still making money and is actively using that money to harm people, you cannot extricate the art from the artist.
If one want a whimsical world of magic, I’d recommend Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. If one wants a little darker story about a magical school, I’d recommend the Scholomance series by Naomi Novik.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Dojan@pawb.social 3 hours ago
No, they’re bad entirely on their own merit.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 35 minutes ago
That’s separate from whether you separate them from the artist
Dojan@pawb.social 26 minutes ago
I’m getting pretty tired of this tirade, honestly.
Rowling’s hateful and bigoted ideology is reflected in the books, it’s right there for anyone to see. You cannot extricate that from the story she tells. The story is bad, because her ideology is bad.
That’s not to say that there aren’t redeemable moments. Hitler treated most anyone badly, but he was pro animal-rights. I somehow don’t find that redeems him or his works as a whole.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
By the way: you can pirate those books.
Dojan@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Pirating Harry Potter media is the only ethical way of consuming it. When I quoted the books here it was from an epub I obtained the same way the big corpos do it.