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.
last week I went to a Tims cause I hadn’t been in awhile and just wanted a large double double and 10 timbits. I felt like death after eating those timbits. god damn horrible. Coffee hadn’t improved at all either. Was just muddy sugar water.
It’s pretty on brand tho. Harry Potter is essentially a half baked story with bad tasting holiday/ethnic sprinkles
Tim Hortons is anti-canadian, full stop.
Tim Horton’s is disgusting and inedible. They are dead to me.
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.
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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.
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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?
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You’re just telling on yourself that you just don’t care where your money goes. And, you know what, that’s your call to make. But what I don’t understand is why bother attacking people who choose differently than you? Why do you care what random internet people you don’t even know think of you? Who would even know how you choose to spend your dollars if you didn’t say anything?
If you don’t care where your dollars go, just own it. “I’ve got too many other more immediate things in my life to worry about.” Okay, then. Fine. Just own it, and stop being so insecure about it. If you’re right, then you’re right.
“You’re not perfect, so don’t even try” is an incredibly childish and immature stance to take. That’s like saying no one should ever try or learn anything new because they’re not masters of it immediately. I mean, if that’s the attitude you have, why should you even bother anything ever? What is the point of your life if you’re not the best or perfect at everything? You may as well just go and die already.
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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.
No, dear. I spent several years in prison. One of the things you learn when you’re around people who are perfectly willing to break your jaw with no warning for acting like a childish little shit saying things like “boo fucking hoo” is that acting like that is the complete opposite of being tough. Tough is holding in your emotions and childish angst at others and using reasonable adult conversation to communicate with people even if you don’t agree on everything in life. It takes actual growth as a person to not spew hate and catty bullshit to sate your inner child.
The only thing your words show is how very soft and sheltered you are. It isn’t adorable, it’s a sad artifact of living online instead of being physically around large groups of people outside of your safe comfortable social circle. It’s something that’s been keeping too many people eternally children recently, since it shields you from running face first into the real world differences and situations that usually force people to mature.
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
I’m willing to separate the art from the artist after the artist is deceased and can’t cause more damage. I’m not willing to divorce the two while the artist is still alive and making money off their art while making the world around them a worse place.
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I admit that I no longer keep track as I used to thirty years ago. Unfortunately, the information burden has gotten to be just too much, so I admit that said information does have to bubble to the surface in some venue more widely distributed than the author’s social media account before I notice it.
Thing is, though, 70% of the people boycotting the most visible 30%—even 20%—of the artists who express bigoted sentiments is likely to be more useful in curbing the expression of those sentiments than 5% of the people boycotting 100% of them. It’s a much clearer indicator to other artists that no, this crap isn’t acceptable.
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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.
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.
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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Separation of art from the artist is relevant when the artist isn’t getting royalties from the IP. Promotions like these earn that bitch a lot of money.
Whenever you spend money on Harry Potter merch, or anything related to the IP, that horrible horrible piece of shit earns money.
Assuming you have a non zero amount of care for humans, the right thing to do is to avoid any and all financial contribution to the IP.
I wonder if there was ever a time and place in human history where people didn’t insist on separating into tribes, agreeing with those in their group, and feeling justified at spitting hate at the ‘others’ they for whatever reason decide to feel justified in hating.
So many humans are small, disappointing things.
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.
Ads make me less likely to buy something. Ads make me irrationally annoyed.
I absolutely do not work at Tims. But if I did (which I don’t), I would be squeezing every goddamn harry potter donut/timbit before serving. I’d be horribly preparing any given Harry Potter item.
I mean, Tim Hortons does ALL of that regardless, but I don’t (if I worked at Tim’s which I don’t). However, if you support this Harry Potter bullshit despite that Rowling bitch’s prowling transphobia, then fuck you too.
Please boycott Tim Hortons (at least till this transphobic nonsense passes).
Just bought an HP 50 pack. Hope my own comes tomorrow!
Do you realize JKR posted about her experience laughing at a rape victim who called into her help line because she thought the voice sounded manly?
Gonna need a link there bruv
https://x.com/FeministRoar/status/2078769709663527074
I’m not going further into her black hole than that. (Someone linked it directly at one point, but I don’t tend to keep x links, so this is from a search.)
A trans dude (girl?) called in as the gender they desire to be. But opted out when being called out?
Not sure how that is biggoted
A trans dude (girl?) called in as the gender they desire to be. But opted out when being called out?
Not sure how that is biggoted
I’d like you to think about how that conversation actually must have gone. Someone called in, ostensibly because they were raped. The automated messaging said “your call is important to us, and also recorded.” Because that’s what every line says before you are put through. Then they got on the line with someone. They said something about PCOS and a full beard. And then, they were told “you know this is recorded, right?”
Do you think they thought they were believed?Would you spend your time trying to convince them that you were a rape victim, or would you hang up knowing that they didn’t believe you? That no one is going to believe you, because your voice is too low. We hear it all the time, don’t we? You’re too ugly to be raped.
And then, to add insult to injury, JKR tweets about this call from someone who is, ostensibly, a rape victim. So, now… now everyone knows or should know there’s no privacy there. Your calls are recorded and subject to a billionaire listening to you and using you as an example to others.
I guess I don’t live in the obsession of this that you do.
I was mole-sted as a kid. Sometimes it seems worse to have happened as an adult.
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.
What does the 2S stand for?
Cool, thanks!
