• @AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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    72 days ago

    It’s different when it’s fascist talking points or lies advocating intolerance or hate speech. That’s not an acceptable “personal opinion” in a tolerant society. Especially if it’s an active and current threat to democracy and financed by vast profits.

    • @rabber@lemmy.ca
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      22 days ago

      Eh I’m pretty well versed in this as a metalhead haha. So many of my musical inspirations turned out to be horrible people. I learned guitar partially thanks to Dagon from Inquisition and I can’t just unlearn that because he’s a piece of shit for one of many examples

      • @AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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        52 days ago

        Yeah some artist are horrible or broken or sick in the head and did horrible things.

        But that’s completely different to someone who gained a huge checkbook to sponsor lawsuits, lobbyists and social media campaigns to sponsor the socio-economic conditions to proliferate issues like that and agitate not just for violence but against fundamental values like equality, freedom, justice.

        Rowlings is an enemy to all people who want to live in a peaceful and tolerant society. They might just be stupid or ignorant but their immense economic power makes them dangerous and they need to be put down - ideally with laws against hate speech or at the very least in polite society. It’s not a tolerable “difference in personal opinion”.

        • DominusOfMegadeus
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          Kristi Noem needs to take Rowling out to the gravel pit. And then someone else needs to see to Kristi Noem.

          Jared Leto turned out to be a seriously deranged cultist, but in 1997 he was in a personal favorite film of mine called Switchback, and I don’t feel compelled to not like the movie anymore. Maybe I’m just a big ol hypocrite.