Ngl, a lot of Harry Potter fans need to learn that someone not liking or trusting you due to your fandom doesn't materially hurt you in any way. And it's not their responsibility to make sure you feel accepted and guilt-free for engaging with HP, nor is anyone obligated to accept you into their social circles. We can talk and condemn specific individual cases of harassment when they happen, but things like seeing someone say "HP fans are transphobes" or being socially ostracized from a few small corners of the internet are not in of themselves harassment. They're other ppl making statements of opinion and curating their social circles.
People might not like this but I actually think this is a fair and reasonable take tbh. I don't think liking HP makes you a transphobe, but *shrug* you gotta accept that you can't make everyone be okay with it, some people just aren't gonna want to be your friend about it.
Reply 2 - Anon
I usually sray out of the Harry Potter shitshow but by god this confession is annoying. Yes it does hurt people. You are purposefully ostracizing people based on content they like. Curating you're own fandom experience means blocking people you'd prefer not to interact with, and it's perfectly fine. Calling someone a transphobe or any other kind of bigot is not. You are sounding the alarm on someone, which will make others not want to interact with them. For what reason? They like a some story about a wizard? Always amazed how HP seems to be the exception for everything. I enjoy media made by shit people all the time but no one says shit cause hey, we acknowledge that we don't support the shit person's personal beliefs.
Reply 3 - Anon
It's kinda hilarious that OP admitted to being the OP to say they don't support harassment, only to then immediately claim that all HP fans are transphobes and they should just stop "overreacting" to the fact that they're being accused of bigotry for their taste in literature.
Like, do you even read what you wrote before hitting "send"?
Blocked.
Reply 4 - Anon
The post: Some people won't trust you and won't talk to you. They'll keep their distance from you. "HP fans are transphobes" =/= harassment, that requires a higher bar. Bullying happens, targeted harassment happens, let's condemn that, but these are not the same thing.
The replies: Why are you advocating for harassing and bullying and threatening people. Condenscending piece of shit, leave people alone and stop telling people to kill themselves.
I think we're having two very different conversations here. Like I don't fully agree with this post. Exclusion can be a form of bullying and generalized statements like the above aren't polite. But these are not the same picture as the scenarios being talked about in the replies, wow.
Reply 4A - Anon
Thank you, people here seem to take "dislike" as synonymous with "harassment and death threats" and leap to some pretty wild conclusions. Hard to have any sort of nuanced conversation without people lying down in the road and acting like you pushed them.
