Swift backlash from 2SLGBTQ+ community over series author J.K. Rowling

Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2026 1:10 PM EDT

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    2 days ago

    Art is in the eye of the beholder. You don’t need to see a thing as art for others to see it so. A perfectly prepared tax form can be seen as art, and it doesn’t require you to agree to that.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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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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        Destroy meaning and claim anything? Sorry, that’s what you did when you decided to jump in and insist that a the products of a collaboration between a business and an artistic media can’t count as art.

        It was a pointless argument in the first place. I never said the donuts are beautiful art. None of the people upset about it are complaining because of donuts. They’re complaining because of Harry Potter, the series of novels. Art.