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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space -1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

This reeks of virtue signaling. Let me get this straight, your proposition, rather than holding the author accountable, is to demonize everyone who has ever enjoyed the stories as children?

Dolores Umbridge called, she wants her authoritarian moral policing back.

[–] MediumGray@lemmy.ca 13 points 14 hours ago

That's really not what they're saying at all; I get the feeling that you may be taking this too personaly. It's a reasonable argument that engaging with the cultural phenomenon, even if not financially supporting it directly, still signals support or at least tolerance of the controversies so closely associated with it these days. You may disagree of course but I think calling it "a demonization of everyone who ever enjoyed the series as a child" is a gross misrepresentation of their position. It is, at most, a condemnation of those who would continue engaging with it since then. (And, ironically, likening them to Dolores Umbridge is engaging in the very type of cultural normalization that they were arguing against. Although if you disagree with them I don't suppose you'd feel that matters anyway.) Anyhow, that's enough arguing on someone else's behalf for me today. I just can't stand seeing arguments misrepresented like that.