I& #39;m going to risk this...

There is a performative and intransigent element in our culture that smells of the commissar. https://twitter.com/GuardianBooks/status/1275066283554271234">https://twitter.com/GuardianB...

I do not require every author represented by my literary agent to agree with me. I do not require every author published by my publishers to agree with me. And J.K. Rowling is a thoughtful human being, not a bigot, however you may disagree with her on this issue.

To flounce out like this (which, incidentally, won& #39;t hurt the media profile of these little known authors) is to equate Rowling with perpetrators of the great injustices that today& #39;s reform movements are trying to seek acknowledgement of. It weakens & #39;progressive& #39; activism...

...to treat everyone who fails to meet your definition of & #39;progressive& #39; as a moral monster. Because it means we can no longer see, or call out, the real moral monsters. And because most people have tuned out, hearing only a kind of cultural absolutism.