alt Hacker News>a relatively benign conservative
Can it really be considered “relatively benign” when an extremely famous public figure is calling for people who disagree with them to be shot?
>a relatively benign conservative
Can it really be considered “relatively benign” when an extremely famous public figure is calling for people who disagree with them to be shot?
You are missing their point. They are saying they start with relatively benign views, and the intense overreaction to those views drives them to support much more extreme views, like what you are describing, that they otherwise might not have.
I can't speak for Blow, but that definitely seems to accurately describe the arc Rowling has taken over the last 7-8 years.