Swift backlash from 2SLGBTQ+ community over series author J.K. Rowling
Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2026 1:10 PM EDT
Tim Horton’s hasn’t been Canadian (or good) for a long time now, so I’m not surprised that they are being shitty.
It’s pretty on brand tho. Harry Potter is essentially a half baked story with bad tasting holiday/ethnic sprinkles
Mudblood is a good description of their coffee.
Tim Hortons is anti-canadian, full stop.
You’d think somebody in upper management would be smart enough to push back - actually I should just stop there. Nobody in upper management thinks. They just go where the money is, and rely on time to fix whatever damaged the brand’s reputation.
Tim Horton’s is disgusting and inedible. They are dead to me.
I will not being purchasing anything from Tim Hortons for the duration of this promotion
At least they’re honest about their morals.
Tim Hortons is now dead to me I did enjoy eating the occasional doughnut but that is it no more.
If I wasn’t already doing that I could join you, I just found it comical that in their announcement of a boycott they promised to come back without any change.
Fuck advertising hooks/campaigns in general. Fuck advertising in general. The way I am forced into viewing ads…everything should be free.
The “controversy” is probably the intended marketing campaign.
Ads make me less likely to buy something. Ads make me irrationally annoyed.
The only ethically ok and correct way to experience Harry Potter in 2026 is with the Wizard People dub.
This year’s Back to Hogwarts also marks the 25th anniversary since the release of the first film adaptation [of the book]…
I am just curious where the line is drawn that makes it less a powderkeg of outrage and starts being worthy of at least an historical acknowledgement in recognition of the victim. If it’s not film adaptations of books, is it once there are musicals based on film adaptations of books written by authors who have expressed offensive viewpoints? Or poems summarizing musicals based on film adaptations of books written by authors who have expressed offending viewpoints?
I’m trying to be honest and not make this tongue-in-cheek.
JKR is actively politically involved in the persecution of trans people and the protection of transphobes. Even if she does not directly profit from an individual piece of HP media, the success of any HP media strengthens her brand and thus her political power.
That’s why it matters. Not an abstract question of “death of the author” or the Ship of Theseus of adaptations of adaptations, but the single contemporary living human being who converts Harry Potter’s cultural cachet into actualized hatred.
So many people so incapable of separating art from artist. Tons of artists are horrible people whom no one should interact with. If we can only care about the art of flawless people who have all the right beliefs and acceptable thoughts on all topics then we might as well start burning all of the books and movies now.
“That’s not the socially accepted thing to say right now! You’re supposed to say ‘Fuck Harry Potter anyway!’ to signal that you’re a good person. Anyone who doesn’t follow the herd to show their virtue must be a bad person. I will down vote you! You are bad! Down voting you will show the rest of the herd that I am good.”
Lmao JK Rowling actively funds queer hate groups and this directly puts money in her wallet. Maybe save separating the art from the artist when their dead and their families aren’t using the money to put fascists all over the world in power.
I’m sure many artists and actors in things you financially support hold the same views and make similar donations, and that you don’t bother to dig deeply into every one of them to be sure they don’t. You’re only bothering to hate on the one who’s loudest and easiest to single out. It’s not you standing for anything other than jumping on the bandwagon. Performative virtue signaling so everyone sees how much you care and how good a person you are.
Like what? Since you know so much about me after all, you must be able to name one thing I would support. Unlike you, who is actually defending a known pos. But nah, you know everything, right?
Of course I’m not some crazed stalker of you in particular. But as a human being who consumes books, music, TV shows, and movies, given the current large cultural rift and your deep, genuine values I’m sure your detailed research into everyone involved with all media you consume has led to you finding loads of people with awful personal beliefs who aren’t often featured in big flashy news articles.
If you’re not simply virtue signaling I’m sure it would be very simple for you to whip out a few dozen of those names to help everyone know more awful people who we should be sure to ensure we’re not financially supporting with our media consumption habits.
Also… no, dear. I never said anything good about JK Rowling. She’s a sack of shit. Loads of artists are horrible people. It’s nothing new. If you watch a thing and enjoy it and then find out one of it’s creators is a sack of shit do you instantly hate that thing you’d just been enjoying? Retroactively change your opinion on the art itself? It’s performative. That’s all it is. And it’s becoming tiresome as hell.
It’s either all or nothing. Anyone who imperfectly tries to make the world a better place is just virtue signaling.
Exactly. You can love harry potter without liking JK in the slightest, there are two different things. And you don’t get to ruin other people’s enjoyment of a franchise just because you’re having a fight with the author. The whole thing is kind of silly
The second you are promoting it is where the problem lies, like how can you not see that? And how the fuck is it ruining if I simply point out she’s a huge hateful piece of shit? If that makes it tough to enjoy, boo fucking hoo, you have morals at odds with your wants, find a way to deal with it.
I find it ironic that the people supposedly doing good by hating her are the ones in here spitting bile at others. Not even others who say a single good word about the woman. I’d say you’re acting like awful people, but I don’t think you’re acting. That’s likely why you need to virtue signal so hard.
If this is bile and harrassment you’re genuinely so soft it’s adorable.
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I hate to break it to you but it’s stunning number of authors and directors and actors are huge pieces of shit. They’re not promoting her they’re promoting the work.
By most accounts Martin Luther King was a terrible person but you can still appreciate the message he had with regards to race and still think his speech was incredible
Are you sure you’re separating the art from the artist correctly if you believe buying these doughnuts is appreciating the art and not enriching the artist?
Yes. You can absolutely hate a person and still have an appreciation for art that person has created. The angst about JK Rowling in particular is an easy public performance. It requires no real effort to say “Yes, I hate her too, she bad!”
On the other hand it takes an awful lot of effort to research everyone involved with all of the media you consume to make sure you’re not enriching anyone who holds similar views. So you almost certainly don’t put in effort to make sure you don’t enrich anyone with shitty views, because it’s not something you genuinely care deeply enough about for it to be worth changing your life and habits and putting in so much work. You just want to be able to say “See, I’m one of the good ones and fuck the bad ones.”
That’s the difference between separating an artist from their art and performative virtue signaling. I have no problem supporting art that I genuinely love that isn’t made by flawless, divine beings. If I find out the people are shit I’m willing to accept that and not like the person, but that doesn’t change my enjoyment of the art itself. The art is not the person.
If I take my car to a mechanic who does a wonderful job fixing it up and the car now runs like a dream come true, and then I find out he stabbed someone once, I’m not going to suddenly start hating what a good job he did professionally. That was still a good job. Me appreciating that isn’t condoning or supporting stabbing folk. I won’t feel the need to loudly proclaim that he’s awful and I hate that I went to him and I’d take it all back to show you and other people what a goody good person I am. Because I don’t care what you think. You’re irrelevant. I’m absolutely fine with idiots thinking I’m a dick. I’m an honest one. Most of you are full of shit and putting on social theater. I find that far more disgusting than being an honest dick.
That’s a lot of words to avoid explaining how buying these doughnuts is appreciating the art and not enriching the artist, and how separating the artist from the art applies here.
I’m sorry that words are difficult for you.
Unfortunately your problem is that I understood your words too well. How else would I be able to tell that you didn’t respond to what I said at all? If I had a poor understanding of words, I’d see all your big words and how many of them there were and think “Wow, this guy must be correct”.
So, since you were the one to fail to respond to what was asked in the first place, the question is which words I used were so incomprehensible that you ended up spending 20 minutes typing up something that didn’t apply? Was it “correctly”? Maybe “doughnuts” since it’s spelled in a regional way?
The bulk of the words were pointing out that a part of being able to separate an artist from their art is not caring if enjoying their art led to a financial benefit for the person you dislike. I enjoy some music made by serial adulterers. I’ve enjoyed movies that include actors who are generally known to be complete pieces of shit to most humans they interact with. I’m not researching everything about the lives and views of everyone involved with every piece of media I enjoy. And it’s very possible for awful people to make wonderful things. I’m not going to stop enjoying those things because of that, even if I strongly dislike the artist as a person.
tl;dr: I don’t fucking care if she gets a penny because I buy a dozen donuts. She has a mountain of money. You’re not financially harming a billionaire by not eating a donut.
The question was about how you see buying these doughnuts as appreciating the art more than supporting the artist, not how much you care about giving the artist a penny.
So many words, and nothing of value.
JK Rowling has, in the course of her transphobia arc, engaged in Holocaust revisionism, sexual harassment, and overt racism.
You can’t separate shit from fuck, when the money you’re throwing around is directly being used to harm others.
Read another fucking book, you sheltered little loser
Lazy copy/paste:
I find it ironic that the people supposedly doing good by hating her are the ones in here spitting bile at others. Not even others who say a single good word about the woman. I’d say you’re acting like awful people, but I don’t think you’re acting. That’s likely why you need to virtue signal so hard.
I’m not here to “virtue signal”, I’m here to shout your dumbass off this fucking platform.
I am trans. This affects me very directly. I do not care for your faux civility. You are not welcome here. Log the fuck off, and read another damn book
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Lol no, I’ve made two comments on this thread, both dunking on you
Oh come on. That’s so dishonest and disgusting to continue to spread that distorted lukewarm rhetoric. She’s a literal billionaire, actively personally platforming anti trans rights and condoning hate and violence.
This is so far past separating art from artists even several years ago and you know it.
She hates trans people so much that she’s making life worse for cis people and women, too. I would call her a politician, but she’s a billionaire using that money to put up ads, start programs, spread misinformation on a global scale, and has ties to Epstein and Israel.
She’s literally an evil person and supporting her is morally indefensible.
So get the fuck up out of here with that “so many people are INCAPABLE of being rational” bullshit. That’s inflammatory nonsense rhetoric. Before you next time, do any level of research on the topic other than suckling on jkr’s twisted pr posts directly and then coming on here and repeating a shitty right wing political talking points.
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I agree with you that we should seperate art from the artist. But, at the same time, we probably should avoid giving financial support to an artist actively using it for evil. It’s pretty easy to avoid buying a donut.
This isn’t art, this is consumerism.
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So your strategy is to destroy meaning until you can claim anything. My opinion is art and by disagreeing with it you are refuting your own argument. See, I too can say nonsense.
It’s literally a fucking ad. You can of course examine anything through the lens of art, but this is much more meaningfully and relevantly viewed as psychological manipulation.
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