This is why racial studies are important. You realize that you don’t understand what somebody is talking about, and your reaction to that is to assume they’re maligning you and that they’re the real racist.

I wholeheartedly agree. Even Rowling’s bigotry aside, Harry Potter isn’t particularly well written and there’s tons and tons of holes in the worldbuilding and plot.

“Games are art!”
“Okay then they should be subjected to the same cultural critiques as other art media.”
“No not like that! Just play the game and shut up!”

Bunch of whiners in the comments today huh. 

Man, I used to love Harry Potter. I remember sitting on my college campus reading Half-Blood Prince in a single sitting instead of going to class that day. I stood in line to buy a copy of Deathly Hallows at midnight on release day, something I’ve never done before or since. I was absolutely steeped in the lore, in…

I understand your viewpoints but at some point you have to let a game be a game.

Don’t underestimate the ways in which “just movies” or “just shows” or “just games” or “just books” teach people ways of thinking, behavior, etcetera. When I say “it’s just a game,” I mean that it’s not like living in an impoverished area where the only grocery store close by is Walmart, and you can’t afford the next…

You don’t have to lie so poorly, it only makes you look ridiculous.

Wow, bad faith argument much?

I’m not sure where you think you are - but this is a video game blog talking about a video game. The focus is going to - naturally - be on the goddamn NEW video game. Not books, not rando HP merchandise, not universal studios.

Anyone boycotting this game for this reason is likely doing the…

When Tolkien was told his descriptions of dwarves were leaning on anti-semetic tropes and stereotypes, he course corrected hard and made it clear in later writings that those were super prejudiced and ignorant descriptions by other races, and then made it a point to show dwarves as just people living their lives like…

Gamers: Games are art!

“It’s invisible in Tolkien but gapingly obvious in the wizarding world after Rowling tweets transphobic nonsense?”

You know you can boycott book and merch sales by just not buying it right? It’s the same level of convenience as not buying the game.

My personal rule is that I wait until the artist/author is dead. Let people wait until that thoroughly nasty person JK Rowling is dead and then buy Harry Potter merchandise with a clear conscience. Works with Philip Larkin, HP Lovecraft, Ezra Pound, and TS Eliot, others too. Would I have bought/read their stuff while…

No, you’re not.

> I’m also the best you’re going to get.

lol ok Himmler I mean aswdef. Nice try, hopefully you get banned quickly

[Not interested in conversing with anyone who doesn’t think JKR—a far right conservative who unapologetically retweets self-identified fascists and transphobes these days—should be totally de-platformed and re-educated at the very least]

Thanks for the commentary. I [enbie, any pronouns] felt much the same way, with…

The point is that, at the end of the day, it’s a video game. It doesn’t provide you food, shelter, security, a means of obtaining an income - it’s entertainment. It’s an incredibly easy thing to not purchase. It’s also particularly annoying when people say “I’m an ally!” and then buy the game and stream it for…

Wondering why the antisemitism of the game isn’t even mentioned.
Goblins controlling the world’s banks with giant hooked noses was already a horrific caricature, but this game (no doubt with Troy Leavitt’s help), took it to a new level, including giving the goblins a shofar (Jewish ritual object.), putting a star of…