J.K. Rowling, self-professed anti-authoritarian, thinks we should let Milo Yiannopoulos speak
But surely, the author who wrote a whole series about children fighting allegorical Nazis would at least support the shunning of Nazis? Also no. In the same podcast episode, Rowling says critics should have engaged with alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos rather than running him off college campuses. “I’m watching from across the pond as he tries to speak on various campuses and there are protests, riots, ‘We want him de-platformed, we don’t want him to speak at all,’” she recalls .
“I thought it was strategically appalling… get on that platform and eviscerate his ideas, get on that platform and expose him for the charlatan that he is. You push back hard. You’ve given him so much power by refusing to talk,” Rowling continues. “In fact, they were serving his purposes because he was able to walk away from that saying, ‘Look, they don’t dare debate me, this is how dangerous and edgy I am.’ And I don’t think we want to cast the alt-right in that light.
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