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There are issues when the artist puts their problematic views into the media, but people were previously not paying attention. Harry Potter is a good example. Most people didn't really read too much into a children book series, but when JK started talking politics, people started looking more into the subtext of her books and realized all the libertarian politics in them. I personally bailed around book 4 or so because they were annoying me and now I understand why.
Xi liked Harry Potter, but even xi can see the slavery defence was weird. Xi always wondered why the good guys never tried fixing the socioeconomic problems that made the goblins and giants support Voldemort.
Xi should get off lemmy and go back to running China. Great job on the renewables btw, keep it up. Maybe less organ harvesting pls
Drag thinks claiming every xi is the same person is racist. It shows a lack of willingness to relate to other cultures. Xi is a perfectly ordinary first name in China and it's a neopronoun in English. Drag understands you were making a joke, but drag didn't think it was a funny one. Drag's already been attacked for drag's pronouns and decided to switch to one pronoun instead of two because of it.
You need therapy and medication.
Drag is confused. What symptoms of mental illness have you noticed in drag?
False pattern recognition go brrrr
You should ALWAYS assume "after we learned this thing about this person, we went back and found loads of evidence about it hidden in their work" is bullshit.
I'll admit I never finished the books because I thought they were bad. I thought it was annoying that Harry never paid rent while living at the Weasleys. Never bothered to offer to help with the car repairs for the car he helped total. I thought Voldemort was a boring villain and was genuinely surprised when he returned in the second and third books. I found it really annoying when Harry kept loosing positive father figures.
I found it surprising when the Hermione/House Elves storyline never went anywhere. That the racial and classism issues never really challenged outside of "the right ones" being uplifted.
Here's the pattern. JK likes her status quo. Another pattern, she's also a bad and boring writer. There's a whole subgenre of fictions that's basically "Harry Potter, but fixed".
This is a stupid as someone who's never liked meat explaining how easy it is to go vegan.