It’s disappointing that even here on the fediverse people are cheering for the franchise of someone who’s sole motivation these days seems to be hating trans people.

There’s about a thousand and one other people involved with the franchise after 8 movies, 3 spinoff movies, a play and a dozen or so videogames.

Rowling is pretty much irrelevant and people aren’t into the HP stuff because they particularly want to give her money.

She is directly benefitting from the sales and people buying Harry Potter stuff know that.

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.

Do you feel the same about boycotting Tesla?

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?

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

kicking trans people down the stairs

This level of hyperbole makes you sound like the MAGA crowd, dude