the way i think about it is that the movement to exclude the harry potter IP from fandom events is about deplatforming jkr (because the right to free speech does not give you the right to platform or the right to hate), whereas if any such space starts to routinely or systematically police/exclude certain works or authors i think that would look dangerously like censorship (which is why while i agree that jkr is definitely a figurehead to a hate movement, i would caution against establishing that as a principle, if that makes any sense) also, including “bad” or “problematic” (however defined) art is not necessarily a bad thing, kind of like how a lot of the discourse inspired by the current tournament often highlights the way that misogyny was perpetuated or actively exercised by the media and creatives in question

i feel like i could be clearer - it’s not that i don’t think figureheads to hate movements should be excluded or that hate speech should be deplatformed, it’s that establishing a permissible category of people to censor is a slippery slope (like how you immediately got further requests to ban another creator) and also how a lot of real life oppression happens ultimately though this is your…