There’s a traditional coconut farming technique in Thailand where they send monkeys into the trees to pick the coconuts. This is like a traditional centuries old thing that doesn’t hurt the monkeys at all. Since Thailand is in asia, animal rights groups have been focusing on it the last few years as some kind of issue even though if a monkey doesn’t want to do something there’s nothing you can really do to make it do that because it’s a monkey.
Nonetheless racist “animal rights” groups go around discussing it as though it’s slavery or a labour rights issue. Personally I think they’re being paid by people who get coconuts some other way but I can’t prove anything.
Anyway, it’s basically MSG again in that it catches on because of anti-asian stereotyping and none of the allegations are true or really even make sense when you look at them. Animal labour in agriculture is really well-established. That’s where we get the term “horsepower”. Because horses were doing the. The power. But there are no monkeys in Europe so Europeans didn’t do that so it’s an evil rights issue.
We domesticate animals and use them for labour. Big if true.
We domesticate
animals and use them for
labour. Big if true.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Like. As far as I can tell the monkeys in question are macaques, which… Yeah you’re not getting a macaque, the monkey known primarily for attacking humans, to do anything it doesn’t want to do, especially through violence. They use violence to establish dominance and that’s a battle the macaque will always win. This npr article says every couple of trees the monkeys get inspected for ants and a little massage, and every other link in the search I did was from PETA, so. Yeah pretty sure the monkeys are fine.
It’s not just to have a “do over” that doesn’t involve the original cast, it’s to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.
If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That’s just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.
There’s people in the notes saying they’re going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.
But. If you can’t bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.
FYI, Rowling posted this today. She is actively queerphobic, do not support this project in anyway.
I know that this was a foundational thing for so many people. I was one of them. Without Harry Potter, I probably wouldn’t be the person I am today.
If you’re thinking about watching this anyway because you feel all that nostalgia: It’s time to grow up. It’s time to move on.
Don’t even hate watch it. Make it fail.
It is the easiest thing ever to simply not do anything.
Don’t even pirate this crap. Just let it die without ever putting your eyes in on it.
through pure random chance someone said “jerma rip your shirt open” and he said no i like this shirt. let me put one over it and rip that instead. and he gave the nation of mexico an eternal gift
