alright since for the past five fucking years i've had to be bombarded with harry potter but only posts of people bitching about it: where do we draw the line here exactly? why do i never see people make these kinds of posts about fucking Disney? you know, Disney, that pesky little company that slips under everyone's radar that basically has Florida in a stranglehold of hyperconservative horseshit? that funds all kinds of "Don't Say Gay" bills? That Disney?
why are people like this about Blizzard but conveniently not about Square-Enix? why do people not make these kinds of posts about Buffy fans touching anything made by Joss Whedon? Why do i have to hear the tired buh-buh-but Chik-Fil-A!
shit every few weeks but nobody ever says a damn peep about the worker's rights surpression and conservative funding other fast food companies engage in (unless it's convenient to their argument, of course, but never any other time.)
where is the Disney hate? where? why am i always relegated to defending shithole series i hate like Harry Potter because people can't draw reasonable boundaries like if you talk to me about harry potter i WILL block you
? why are people not devoting this energy to directly fighting the transphobic laws being made around the world right now? oh bluh bluh we can focus on multiple things–
bitch unless you are some kind of time wizard your time and effort are both limited resources. the more time you spend giving a shit about what Rowling does or says is energy not spent fighting her TERF friends at the source of the hell they wish to enforce upon us all. why do these fucking people keep saying things like not to pay attention to Elon Musk but will be right up Rowling's asshole with everything she does? fuck.
and it unsettles me, the kind of community these people seem to want. where we're all the panopticon and police of our communities, where irrelevant horseshit like "what video games someone enjoys" or other fandom garbage (see: the prevalent use of "antishipper" and "proshipper" – fandom-first trash that should be replaced with actual words used for real problems) are things that come first and are more important than the greater social issues and laws being cast. media is a symptom of the problem, not the source, and frankly i don't want to fucking be in a community where the slightest infraction of "you played the Wrong video game" is social death. i already dealt with that playing Blizzard games while these stupid dipshits blithely continued playing their Ubisoft, Square-Enix, EA, etc etc ad nauseum games because their equally flawed shit wasn't in the limelight this time, so why should their morality even be consistent? they can have it both ways, remove all the Bad things except the things they like which are "Good and Pure" according to them.
i'm so done with this. i'm so tired of it and i know, i know deep in my heart of hearts as i have been my entire life when people do this i will always be one of the people on the Wrong side. i always have been. always too Weird, always too Cringy before cringe was even a word, always too Other, and they made sure i knew it quickly and early. i've had to use a very firm hand when the Blizzard shit was hitting the fan that i do not entertain "media consumption and harassment as activism" and will not allow it to be done to me.... so they did it instead to my spouse. people i thought i could trust, thought were my friends, deciding to relegate themselves to Media Police in their own friend groups, but you know. only with people who hadn't put their foot down that they weren't going to hear that fake activism dogshit.
i'm so tired man. i just want to exist. i want to exist and just like the flawed things i like and allow other people the same in turn. is it something i hate? is it fucking danganronpa my beloathed? fine, just don't talk to me about it. problem solved. no big deal.
but that can't and won't be the case when this kind of "activism" is so prevalent in every single online space i inhabit now except a server i am admin of, and a single other discord server headed by a friend. i know the witch hunts will continue until all the branded Problematic media enjoyers have been Purged because they were never human anyway, so all the Good people can get back to their Definitely Not Just as Problematic Media.
is that the world everyone wants? is that really what people want, a world where online hunts and outings and stripping of humanity of people for their stupid god damn taste in movies? where as long as they're a Good Little Cult Member and like all the Good shows they won't be on the Wrong side of the hunts? i know this for what it is, and it fills me with dread that people think this shit is activism instead of literally anything that matters. the irony of these people using social tactics the oppressive majority uses to police and eliminate us minorities really stings particularly. the new Harry Potter game (which i don't even remember the title of at all but all the Terminally Online Harry Potter Haters seem to...) is an antisemitic transphobic game in a sea of such media. why are we focusing on one? why not the source? how many people will have to be hunted down and ground up for it to be clear this model not only is not sustainable but if anyone's morality had any consistency would see applies to all the shit they like too?
oh but (x) isn't as bad–
shut up. shut up i am so tired of this trying to quantify harm is largely subjective and nobody will ever agree on where the Bad Enough line is and where it isn't even within groups of similarly marginalized people. just stop. stop letting a shitty media franchise dominate our understanding of justice and equity. it appalls me i see so many people who talk about justice reform and community building and prison abolition fall right back onto mob justice, witch hunts, and Unpersoning the moment the dreaded HP comes up.