Today’s wearisome culture skirmish concerns Hogwarts Legacy, a Harry Potter video game. Because this is 2023 and no one should enjoy anything, it’s getting mauled by the anhedonic scolds of the internet. The New York Post said one reviewer called it “a genocide simulator,” which sounds like you pop Pol Pot on a broom and fly him around. But most gamers seem to enjoy it, a lot, and that’s the problem: The Potter properties were conjured into being by J. K. Rowling, who has said “transphobic” things. Ergo supporting Harry Potter is like investing in the company that built rail lines to Auschwitz.
Reductio ad absurdum could be a Harry Potter spell, for all you know.
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