While not quite exactly, the situation you’re describing isn’t too far off from some of the ways people have lived historically. I 10/10 recommend reading The Dawn of Everything if you’re interested. Some of that research really changed my thoughts about what is possible.
If every HP fan supported the author by buying it, but then volunteered in a soup kitchen one time, they’ve done far more good than bad.
Good and evil aren’t interchangeable, fungible quantities. You can’t punch 20 babies in the face and then feed 100 starving orphans and expect people to forget about one due to the other. The babies stay punched and the orphans stay fed.
With respect to HP in particular, supporting someone who actively and successfully campaigns against trans right hurts trans people. (And tells us that y’all care more about a children’s story than you do living, breathing human beings). Volunteering at a soup kitchen after donating to the exterminate trans people fund doesn’t undo the donation. It does feed some hungry people, but again doing “good” doesn’t erase having done “evil”; both acts still occured.
What people are saying here is literally “please don’t donate to the trans extermination project.”
Finally, there being no ethical consumption under capitalism is an indictment of consumption, not an absolution for any/all consumption. Just because all consumption falls short of perfect ethics doesn’t mean it’s all equally unethical. This should be obvious.
Wow, we’ve come so far in the last 20 years… In 2006, Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid was released. Thank goodness we’ve come together as a society to figure out how best to refer to the domination of the Palestinian people 🙄.
That is… incorrect for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is the following copyright notice given by the EFF themselves: