Mastodawn

Babe, wake up! The libtards who think “separating the art from the artist" is a conservative demand are here again.

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

The opposite is true. In the art literature studies there were big discussions about it around the 1950s with the realization that it often happens that artists create works that do / are the opposite of what the artists actually intended. It is the realization that a work can be smarter than its creator and vice versa.

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HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but quality isn’t the point. The show is a transparent attempt to induct a new generation—and market—into the lucrative fantasy world…

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Sui 18h ago

In other words, In order to be able to evaluate a work and its effects, you must inevitably separate the work and the author.

These liberal culture warriors fall short of this realization.

The left is currently so disorganized and powerless and change is so far away that some people are outraged by individual works and authors as a great political act.

Apart from that:
A left that is more upset about one rich person funding transphobic ...

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Sui

... women's refuges than about the fact that women's refuges have even been interested in funding rich donors because their own state and government don't give a shit about protecting women and queers, will never be able to organize and unite the masses that are necessary to to fight for real change.

(The media also prefer to talk about culture war topics rather than about the material basis of discrimination. You have to fight against that, too.)

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