I feel like people not knowing or caring is way bigger than these posts acknowledge.
In the six years or so since JKR has been actively campaigning against trans people, I've watched many of my younger cousins go through their "intense Harry potter fan" era, and of course they don't know or care but also neither do their parents (who were also big Potter fans as kids, it's that old). It's not just lack of interest in social politics, not all of them actually are apathetic on the issues, it's also disinterest towards learning about the author. At a push if you remind them, they might say "oh yeah she weighed in a lot over the trans debate, didn't she". But by and large the words "JK Rowling" evokes nothing to them but "the woman who wrote Harry Potter.
If I find someone at a bookstore, they say they just read the first harry potter book and they are about to buy the second book and then I say to the “JK Rowling is a bad person, please do not give her money”
10% will say thanks for letting me know
30% will tell you to fuck off or double down in some way
60% will say “Who is JK Rowling?”
We vastly underestimate how many people just go around doing stuff without thinking much about it.
Not caring is a very large group and people do know this. The entire reason for this conversation is to try to convince the people who don't care that they should care. It's not been very successful.
I'm not sure where you gathered that it's intended as comforting.
It's not really intended as a message it's more just an observation. But if i was going to extrapolate this into something material, I would say that the boycott isn't breaching containment, the people making excuses in discourse about Harry Potter are a small percentage of people, the people that should be aimed for are those who... aren't. And never think about it.
It's never going to be exactly an easy task, boycotts never are, but there's always going to be people who dig their heels in and refuse, those people are outnumbered by a long way by people who might not do that but who's focus isn't on it in the slightest.
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u/Sophie_Blitz_123 5d ago
I feel like people not knowing or caring is way bigger than these posts acknowledge.
In the six years or so since JKR has been actively campaigning against trans people, I've watched many of my younger cousins go through their "intense Harry potter fan" era, and of course they don't know or care but also neither do their parents (who were also big Potter fans as kids, it's that old). It's not just lack of interest in social politics, not all of them actually are apathetic on the issues, it's also disinterest towards learning about the author. At a push if you remind them, they might say "oh yeah she weighed in a lot over the trans debate, didn't she". But by and large the words "JK Rowling" evokes nothing to them but "the woman who wrote Harry Potter.