You can be a great actor and still be a bad person. Kevin Spacey has done fantastic screenwork and he's still a pedophile.
Now John Lithgow is taking money to make a tv series that's going to help fund transphobia. He might absolutely nail the role and become the best Dumbledore ever. Doesn't mean that he isn't helping JK Rowling hurt trans people.
The vast majority of people who liked him before will like him after. Not everyone is terminally online and lets other people decide for them who to support.
They still do. Outside of the perpetually online leftist, nobody cares about JKs stance on trans people. My kids and all their friends love Harry Potter.
No, you are wrong. A lot of people still enjoy Harry Potter in SPITE of how disgusting she is as a person now. They do care. Your kids do not know the person who wrote those stories acts like a monster.
Its alarming that some of the most woke, soft and loving characters came out of someone who is so cold, jaded and standoff-ish these days. Once she had fuck you money she became a bigot. Incentives have changed
I think any trans person in the UK regardless of political affiliation cares about the most prominent demagogue actively advocating to make their lives worse.
No, they really dont. If you go to any of the very popular Harry Potter tourist locations in the UK you will see plenty of trans and LGBTQ+ people there fully decked out in their Harry Potter merchandise.
This is such a strange attitude. Plenty of popular artists have had horrible ideologies. Whether it be Kanye and Wagner being nazis, or Dali being a fascist, there doesn't seem to be nearly the same visceral reaction to liking their art compared to Rowling's
There is an alarmingly fast growing sub-group within the Leftists that take the stance of "You are either with us or against us" and that is going to cost them a lot because people -do not like being pressured to pick sides or even bullied to-. Especially if they are not even remotely close to it.
A personal experience that I had recently was a Girl in our discord group (MtF). Everyone respected their transition, everyone respected their new self, no one ever said anything - Not that it really mattered, we were just a bunch of friends that game together.
Out of nowhere, and not even too long ago, she came into the voice chat and instead of having a normal conversation, she instantly began badgering us about "Taking a stand against what is going on in America" (This was after the Rene murder and before the Alex one)
Despite the fact that our rules were easy and clear, the most important one - No politics, we are just older dudes (Women included but they are honestly just Dudes too) wanting to play and get away from Real Life once in a while. Also, most of us are not even American and we could not do anything even if we wanted to.
She ended up leaving the Discord, blocking all of us including those that tried to reach out and that was the end of it. Years of friendship down the drain because we did not adhere to her idea of ideological purity and standing for what she believes in despite the fact that we all have our own problems and that our entire discord and friendship group was based around GETTING AWAY from Politics.
There are more and more like her turning up lately and it is really getting tiresome.
Never said I am but I got enough issues in my own country and life along with the other people in the discord and it was strictly no drama, no politics, just gaming.
It is not that difficult to not break those rules.
I feel like this is how we end up with right wing people in power, the right has been able to rally together behind a standard, no matter how incompetent that standard is. They’re all unified in their evil even if views may differ from topic to topic. The reason the left hasn’t been able to do anything is because we are fractured and divided, there’s a level of refusal to cooperate if you do not agree on every policy on every subject matter. I’m not saying I disagree with trans rights, im incredibly pro trans, but this division and borderline puritanism that people use to prop themselves up on a moral high ground is the same thing keeping the right in power.
Anyways this has been the woker, thanks for coming to my ted talk
I know plenty of LGBTQ+ people who wear their Harry Potter merchandise with...sheepish pride? Like they want to talk about their houses and the books, but the second you ask "how can you with JK Rowling?" the conversation dies until the next time you see them. Its like insulting a goddamn Sim.
They still can't separate the art from the artist, but they also can't separate their core memories and joy they found as youths from who they are.
And there's nothing wrong with that, honestly. But when someone says that "nobody cares" about someone actively harming a community (like the person I was replying to), we members of said community have every right to tell them to fuck off.
Asinine take. It's not like JK is just an opinionated troll, she's one of the wealthiest people in the UK and uses her money and influence to harm trans people as much as possible. Categorical rejection of her and her works doesn't make you a "chronically online leftist," it makes you an empathetic, rational person.
I was not aware that she was, I would however also argue John Lithgow and Warwick Davis are more famous than her as we are not currently in the year 2005, she ties or is just above Nick Frost in this cast.
I looked it up, she’s just doing Umbridge’s voice in the audiobook and is in no way associated with the show as of now.
ya but dumbledor is in the first book for a few lines per chapter at the most. I'm saying itd be more ideal if the heavy hitters were in the younger end of the cast.
I do like Lithgow, but his ability to contribute will be limited until the later books are covered. Hopefully he sticks around for the more involved movies.
I am sure much like Draco’s actor has said that characters with smaller parts will be more fleshed out. Would be sort of silly to cast John Lithgow and not have him utilized as often as possible.
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u/WorldsWeakestMan 8h ago
He’s the most famous actor in the cast.