People/Steamers crying about getting shit over buying and playing hogwarts legacy vs trans people dealing with politicians and pundits calling for their genocide and being kind of understandably furious at streamers for enabling JK Rowling’s anti semitism and transphobia in the midst of fascists using any means to get legitimacy to kill lgbt people.
Edit: Free Terf and fascist blocklist in the notes. Turned off reblogs due to bad fucking takes and increasing hostility, and my own personal frustration. This was over trans people facing hate and Streamers and people drawing attention to the fact they are playing a video game with an author is against them and getting pushback for it, they are not comparable things. Some people were also using it for transphobic propaganda. Fuck that.
Edit Edit: I am cis. I have turned off reblogs, and presumably will not have to hear anything else about harry potter unless I choose to. I am choosing not to engage with it. The same way with how streamers could choose not to engage with it. This? This is the whole fucking point of the post. I’m not trans, I don’t have to argue my rights to anyone. Trans people do. It was a basic, human thing, to not play one bad fucking wizard game. If you try to wiggle your way out of it or argue, you’re an asshole.
Edit Edit Edit: Reblogs Back on. Fuck it. Go ahead and take your mask off if you want to miss the point or be an asshole. Love the Rest of yall
As someone who streams games, it is absolutely ridiculous to see some streamers cry that they themselves are being ‘boycotted’ when a solid chunk of their viewers call them out for streaming Hogwarts Legacy and then stop watching.
You don’t get to complain if a game you choose to stream makes some of your viewers not feel particularly welcome anymore. That is entirely on you.
Hogwarts Legacy will sell millions of copies, and if you really want to play it then you can choose not to stream it. You can just shut up and play it.
But don’t squirm and try to justify it with shit like “Oh I’m playing it to support the devs” unless you purchase every single game that gets released.
If you buy this game and then go online to make weird justifications about why you ‘just had to play/stream/review it’ then you are an objectively bad person.
Just own your purchasing decision. Don’t seek validation from people online because you feel ashamed.
Normally I’m with you on these things, but I don’t think hogwarts players go around hatecriming trans people. We, as a collective on the internet, are making a bigger deal out of a game instead of real transphobic politicians and governments. I don’t just mean you or Scottish people as a whole. I mean fucking everyone.
Can we please start taking real action against harmful transphobia instead of judging people for supporting a franchise they like? Separate the art from the artist, even though nobody listens to that.
Honestly this sounds like another cheap justification. Go and play it if you want to but for the record I disagree with you because all of this adds up.
Purchasing the game contributes to Rowling’s wealth and cultural standing. JK Rowling directly platforms far-right anti trans groups like the one we saw in Glasgow a few days ago. She is shoulder to shoulder with bigots in Parliament. She is very much part of the problem.
I’m not Jewish and I’m a cis guy, I don’t get to judge what the game is or isn’t through those lenses. But if there were two cafes to choose from and I’m told by Jewish and LGBT people that one cafe owner harasses and targets them, I’m choosing the other cafe.
JK Rowling has specifically explicitly said that buying her shit means you agree with her. Like it’s not even “you give her money and she uses that for shit causes” she actually believes, and says so, that all her fans - all the people still buying HP shit - are transphobic and scared to say so
Cheap justification indeed. Listen. Fighting bigotry doesn’t just mean big dramatic actions. It means not allowing any place for bigotry, no matter how small, in your life. The more these ideas appear to be widely accepted in society, by people from all walks of life and all political alignments, the more powerful they will become. And the bigots will say, “Everyone thinks trans women are predators. Everyone thinks Jewish people have too much power. It’s not a political opinion, see? It’s just facts we can all agree on.”
Maybe that’s not the signal you meant to send when you bought Hogwarts: Blood Libel, but it’s one you’re sending whether you like it or not.
it’s true that simply killing billionaires would not fix problems inherent to capitalism but elon musk? you can’t tell me things wouldn’t be at least slightly more bearable
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Evolutionary biologist here! What they say is 100% true. ‘Survival of the fittest’ only refers to how successful an organism is at enduring their environment long enough to reproduce, and is not at all tied to the idea that those who are the 'best’ are the only ones that survive. Evolution does not care if you keel over dead the second you give birth to a baby, it only cares if that baby survives long enough to breed again. What is the 'fittest’ is almost entirely environmentally subjective; that’s how you have creatures like horses that are basically living trainwreaks still roaming about vs something that people think would be better suited to filling their ecological niche. No genology or phenology has inherent worth over the other, all that matters is if they were capable of passing their genes on to the next generation
You know what gives us a huge evolutionary advantage, past our high cognitive ability? Our intense social bonding. Humans are outstandingly social creatures, and that has magnified all of our successes as well as our downfalls. The trait that made us the fittest for our environment wasn’t just sheer dumb luck (though it was certainly partially attributed to that in some cases), it was love. We wouldn’t be where we are if we didn’t care enough about each other to value each life as highly as our own, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a fucking idiot.
