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I dropped literally everything in your list for the reasons you outlined (except WoW, which I dropped before I knew anything about Blizzard).

But Rowling is worse than them.

Corporations are amoral, and entirely self serving. They will fuck over anyone if it earns the corporation a profit.

Rowling is not amoral. Rowling is driven by hate, and her goal is not self interest, and her harm is not indiscriminate. Her harm is targeted and deliberate, and she explicitly uses her visibility to normalise and encourage harm to the people she is targeting.

And deliberate targeted hate that tries to create more hate is worse than amoral self interest.

Like Ada said, JKR is uniquely hateful and her acceptance by society is enormously harmful. She shares as much responsibility as Hilary Cass for trans people being as discriminated against as they currently are in the UK. Her activism has ruined and ended lives, not because she's just greedy, but simply for the love of the game.

Also, don't use any of those other products if you can avoid it. Harry Potter is an easily avoidable series, not a hard to avoid service like Amazon or YouTube. It's not that hard to walk away from that fandom, especially when all the most interesting contributors have already left.

A few things

The "there is no ethical consumption under captilaism" as a get out of jail free for trying to do better is just a nothing. We should all be, within our capabilities, trying to ensure we aren't at the very least direct financial supporters of evil companies.

Re: no trans person you know (...)

I'm a trans person I know, I go nuclear about jkr and harry potter, and I also go nuclear about the support and usage of meta products, purchasing of games from corps like actiblizz, ubi, ea, square, Microsoft, etc, Minecraft, discord, etc etc etc. I'm in the minority of the minority, sure. But most people don't have the emotional or mental energy to "fight that many battles" at once, much less to convince others to do so.

The fact that most people might stop at hating jkr and HP isn't evidence that they're wrong or something. Its just a symptom of how well known it is that jkr and her products harm trans people. Fewer people know (or, have internalised) that the other examples are bad.

I think people should feel shame if they're giving money to jkr or otherwise promoting her presence. I also think it would be good if more people were taking stands against more things, but jkr's a good start

i think a lot of it comes down to how much easier it is to drop Harry Potter than entire social platforms and such.

for example, it'll take time and energy for me to move from Windows to Linux, which i simply don't have right now. but all i need to do to stick it to Rowling is not care about Harry Potter.

now, that doesn't mean i would go out of my way to harass people who still support the franchise, but i could see how that would embolden other people to do so, and i still think it's important to let people know that J.K. Rowling actively advocates against trans people existing.

This is a strawman. There may be no ethical consumption under capitalism, but not all consumption is ethically equal. Each individual makes a value judgement based on how much harm their purchase is doing and how much they need to make it.

That line is different for everyone, and you’re conflating those lines by collapsing trans people into a monolith. It’s inconsistent because people are different.

That being said, anecdotally, I don’t give money to any of the companies you listed, and neither do most of my friends afaik.

Well, here’s one, I actively cut many of those things out of my life. For instance, I used to love StarCraft 3, but haven’t gone back in a long time, and dont buy or play blizzard games, I don’t use any meta products, shop amazon, have anything to do with hp, gave away the books and movies etc.

Jkr is a horrible person, and if you just can’t give up a very mediocre story, maybe you aren’t an ally

The biggest difference is that all of your examples are standard big, evil corporations who fuck everyone over, while JK is a specific person spewing hate at a specific group of people.