@dalias @Lana Maybe that's true for people young enough never to have encountered the books without the "author is an anti-trans fanatic" associations.

But, e.g., my university-age daughter was an HP fan and has none of that stuff going on. She thinks JKR is contemptible and is keen to make sure that none of her money ever flows in JKR's direction ever again, but she loved the books when they were first published. She enjoyed the books and the movies "for a reason", but the reason was that the books were fun to read and the movies were fun to watch. (And also maybe that _practically everyone_ of her age was reading the books and watching the movies.)

I don't think justice is served by deciding retroactively that actually the books were obviously saturated with bigotry and that everyone who enjoyed them was a bigot.

(Yes, there absolutely is some shitty stuff in the books -- e.g., ye gods, the goblins -- but not so much that only Bad People could have liked them.)

@dalias

I can't believe the books with "Cho Chang" and totally-not-jewish banker goblins have a statistically significant racist readership. Who could have seen that coming?

@Lana

@caitp @Lana nope that’s pretty much animorphs. also animorphs are strongly acab 😁

though if we’re remaking/adapting it let’s make tobias trans and rachel bi

@AnhedoniaIsReal I guess the difference for me is I don't see dead children and dead chickens as morally equivalent outcomes.

I do agree it is good idea to reduce our meat intake for the betterment of our planet though, and I am actively taking steps to do that in my household.

@snorker @Lana

I think this article articulates it really well:

https://defector.com/its-time-to-grow-up-hbo-harry-potter