Backlash grows ahead of Harry Potter event in Vancouver

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/backlash-grows-ahead-of-harry-potter-event-in-vancouver/

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Timbits@lemmy.ca · 53 pts · 336d (1 reply)

“I feel it’s really regrettable that we’re allowing one of the world’s most high-profile transphobes to actually make money in the City of Vancouver,” said Vancouver City Councillor Lucy Maloney, with OneCity.

“For me, the transphobic actions of J.K. Rowling have really spoiled my enjoyment of that series,” she told CTV News.

maam@feddit.uk · 31 pts · 336d

Rowling should be barred from entering Canada for stoking stochastic terrorism.

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 336d (2 replies)

It’s hard to separate the author from her work when she’s glued to it. The new potter show had a chance to tear the series away a from JK and fix it. Instead they doubled down and hired her. May as well let that series and those characters die now

WrittenInRed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 336d (1 reply)

Yeah it sucks, because I loved Harry Potter growing up, but separating the art from the artist is a lot harder when said artist is still profiting off their art, and using that profit to directly fund transphobia.

FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus · 9 pts · 336d

And writing books about how chronically ill people are actually just lazy malingerers?? And tweeting horrid bigoted shit.

Like honestly, I dunno what happened to her but she’s become cartoonishly evil.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 336d

And they shafted the firefighters' charity that had traditionally been run this time of year. So they could put up some harry potter crap and make big dollaz.

Pronell@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 336d

John Lithgow's involvement upsets me so much.

He played one of cinema's first transsexual characters in The World According to Garp.

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 336d

Hmm about that. Outdoors exhibit you say. I don’t think it will be there the next morning. What do you think?