@licho @sounddrill @jalefkowit I understand where you are coming from. But this is a strawman. This is an edge case to the edge case. To the point that your argument seems very centrist, big tentish.

I used to grant people I know quite huge benefit of doubts. For sake of keeping a relationship. For sake of not making the drama, especially if those were my ex friends. And let me tell you, it doesn't end on them loving H.P. It doesn't bother them that JKR is hurting trans people. When told it, they double down. They do not even have will to change anything. So I can hardly call such asymmetric relationship a friendship. And, at the very end, it's their choice to either change their views, or to radicalise further.

Yeah, of course, this is a case by case basis. But if someone is repeatably and knowingly acting in a way hurting me, that relationship is toxic, and it's time to quit.

And look, here is the field I grow my benefits of doubts. It's barren.