oh good fucking lord. i hate to even have to say anything in defense of the guy- i think the original tweet was corny as hell and it’s certainly not my place to defend him writing the anne frank house kiss into his books, nor would i even want to. but Jesus Christ, publicly responding to a false public accusation of pedophilia (that the accusers are ASKING YOU TO PUBLICLY RESPOND TO) is not “leading a harassment campaign”. how do you assess that situation and not realize the people publicly accusing someone of being a pedophile (albeit using coy weasel language about it) are the ones quite literally leading a harassment campaign and not the person responding to it. i don’t care that the guy has a big platform, making public false pedophilia accusations because of “vibes” is libelous harassment, and if you directly ask for someone to respond to your harassment campaign, you don’t get to “nyaaah I’m just a little guy” yourself out of things when they do in fact respond. come on.
this guy did nothing wrong here. this is not “leading a harassment campaign”; it is responding to one.
