I personally feel that it’s perfectly fine to boycott problematic figures. Speech has real effects and should be treated like it.

But once you accept the equivalence of speech/reading and violence you can start choosing to regulate speech/reading as violence, or free up violence as speech. I don’t think either is a great idea. Do you think that any of you have never said something hurtful to others? Should you be jailed for it?

I await all the civil and non-hurtful replies from peaceful and sympathetic people I am likely to garner for this stance.