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We really fucked up by fighting the Nazis in WW2 because we were just giving them free advertising.

Another Kirby

Vyrulisse posted...

Is it true Wizards just shit their pants, I thought it was a meme

Apparently before plumbing was invented they all just popped a squat on the floor and vanished it away with magic.....because that makes sense.

meestermj posted...

I wish this had gone the same way as Tolkien did when he created dwarves in the hobbit.

People pointed out how it had some anti Semitic tropes, so when LotR dropped he flipped all that on its head.

Because Tolkein was actually a savvy person who knew shit about the world outside him.

I am not accusing J.K. Rowling of being anti-Semitic

Boy looking back, Jon Stewart sure was off the mark on that one.

COVxy posted...

Dude. The whole mudblood thing is an obvious allusion to mischling, which is clearly an anti-semetic concept.

I think it would be weird for someone to make a story which obviously trashes the ideals of anti-semites, with pretty direct references to these violent anti-semetic terms, and then "sneak" in some anti-semetism through the goblins.

We're talking about the same author who set up an "anyone can be a wizard, even a poor kid living in a closet" story and then went back on that with "oops nope sorry you gotta be an elite with special blood".

Mr. Popo at least has the excuse of being based on a Japanese mythological spirit (like Jynx from Pokemon). It's just a really, really unfortunate coincidence that it happens to look like blackface in the west.

JKR may not be trying to get Auschwitz reopenened but she absolutely has shown her prejudices and biases.

hockeybub89 posted...

It's fine to not buy it. Just don't buy the anti-LGBTQ elf game or plumber game either. Don't play the anti-human rights MOBA or watch its wildly popular spin-off show.

You aren't even bringing up the "posting from phone made with slave labor" gotcha. I'm disappointed.

voldothegr8 posted...

I guarantee you've spent money that has contributed to actual dictators.

hm yeah good point, guess I have no choice but to buy the terf wizard game

womp womp

Pretty sure the FB movies were torn to shreds by the public. Least the way I remember it.

GranolaPanic posted...

And this person wont post in this topic again.

Still here. I'm just enjoying seeing you all trip over each other to give yourselves blowies because you found an ancient post of mine that I despise and regret ever making.

hockeybub89 posted...

Whatever makes it easier for you to swallow the fact that video games are immoral and harmful.

Thought so.

hockeybub89 posted...

I'm a better person than you are

How is it unrelated? The controversy is giving video game money to known evil people that are currently harming the world. It literally could not be more related.

Defend giving your money to a person who pushes anti-trans legislation and promotes anti-trans propaganda without bringing up Saudi Arabia, China, Nintendo, or anything else unrelated.

You can't because you know it's wrong and you will continue to deflect and make excuses.

hockeybub89 posted...

So we're going to go with "Everyone who plays video games is a hateful bigot"?

The fact that you keep insisting this is not helping your case.

Also the constant deflection to other unrelated things like Saudi Arabia and China makes it obvious you know what you're doing is bad but are too cowardly to admit it.

Yeah this is bad. What's even worse is all the people twisting themselves into pretzels desperately trying to insist it's a coincidence and we're reading too much into things.

hockeybub89 posted...

Damn, people are really going out of their way to not address all the other video games they play that pieces of shit profit from

Damn, people are really going out of their way to deflect attention away from their antisemitic game that directly benefits a TERF doing TERF things.

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You say while playing your antisemitic wizard game.

So basically they no longer have any yakuza connections. And the yakuza is already pretty much irrelevant these days.

GranolaPanic posted...

Of Nintendos connections or the types of crimes the Yakuza were involved in.

The former President of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi worked for a Yakuza crime family and the company connections still exist today.

What sort of connections?

GranolaPanic posted...

Nintendos connected to the Yakuza. And they engage in human trafficking and forced sex work. If you base your morality on what a person or a corporation does, shouldnt they be boycotted as well?

Do you have proof of this claim?

Tmaster148 posted...

So why does the money from Hogwarts Legacy sales matter and not other games where money goes to equally bad people?

Who said they don't matter? Point me to another game that directly benefits a modern day Hitler and I will rally against that one too.

hockeybub89 posted...

Buying a video game is only an ethical decision if you value it one way or another as one.

I'd say the ethics are based not on the fact that it's a video game but on where the sales of that video game are going to.

Prestoff posted...

Because people like Harry Potter? People buy stuff they like all the time. The issue is that many people who are pro-trans (or trans themselves) don't see an issue buying this game because either they can seperate the art from the artist, think any royalty money she makes off from the game is insignificant because she's basically a billionaire, or believe boycotting this game will hurt the devs more than rowling herself.

Devs make a steady salary. They don't work based on sales, lol. And it is literally impossible to separate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, still benefiting from the sales of her art, and uses said sales to persecute people.

Zeeak4444 posted...

heres the problem with the mindset:

in that scenario, taking a lighter to it would do literally nothing. But thats not the only course of action, if you take a lighter to it and get a bucket of water to throw on it you didnt actually negatively impact the situation but you did positively impact it, even if barely.

So that statement is dumb because it inherently assumes only one action occurred, and that the one action would have had any impact on the situation.

Or....you know, you could only take a bucket of water to it. Even if taking a lighter to it "has no real impact", you're still being a huge dick and displaying negative empathy to the person currently in distress.

GranolaPanic posted...

Seems like it. And to treat everyone that was ever a fan as an irredeemable bigot.

Maybe you folks should stop getting so hyperdefensive when asked why you're knowingly giving money to an irredeemable bigot.

fakefire posted...

Your posts are the embodiment of when a wise man points at the moon, an idiot looks at his finger

Stop looking at my finger then.

COVxy posted...

I think i did. I didnt buy it and i explicitly try to vote for local and federal politicians that support LGBTQ+, along with other minorities and disadvantaged people.

But I'm not patting myself on the back for the former and denouncing everyone who didn't do it.

Yet you're arguing that not buying the game is pointless because it's "symbolic", even though it's not.

fakefire posted...

She already has a fuckload of money even if she made negative money per copy of the game. This outrage is peak slacktivism

When your neighbor's house is on fire, do you take a lighter to it? It's just a little bit of fire, right? It won't affect anything.

COVxy posted...

Oh, i'm not buying it. But i never was going to in the first place.

Answer the other part of the question.

COVxy posted...

You replied to my post, you don't get to direct the conversation.

Why are you going so hard on something that is symbolic, such that you are willing to denounce totally normal people as bigots and get all worked up on the internet about it? Why is that clearly more important in your mind than all the other shit going on right now?

What has happened is that a bunch of activists have played a game here. They have taken something they were going to do anyway (not buy a game from a franchise they don't care about) and used it as a substitution. Making it a line drawn in the sand for "caring about trans people". The people driving the movement have good intentions likely. They think this is just driving attention to the cause. But that's not really how shit works.

But you. You've got drawn into this entirely ficticious battle.

Now you are getting defensive and avoiding the question. I ask you again: Is it impossible to simultaneously not give her more of your money and elect more pro-trans politicians and push against dehumanizing legislation? What is compelling you to buy the game despite knowing the harm it will contribute to?

COVxy posted...

One of those things has a real impact, the other is symbolic. What's the current focus?

That doesn't answer the question.

GranolaPanic posted...

Shes already extremely wealthy. Her getting a small amount from sales doesnt mean much.

The priority needs to be on electing more pro trans politicians to Congress and state legislatures. And push against dehumanizing legislation.

Is it impossible to simultaneously not give her more of your money and elect more pro-trans politicians and push against dehumanizing legislation?

COVxy posted...

a product that has almost no actual direct connection to the fundamental hardships that trans people will face in the next 10 years

[X] - Doubt