I will always have sympathy for victims of censorship and cancel culture, whether I agree with them or not. And I don't know, the person seems intelligent and decided to publish this book in the first place, so clearly has some working conception of nuance. I think that there's a difference between people who are truly rabid TRAs and those who just toe the party line to avoid (more) backlash. He's trying to save his company, after all, and given my own profession I have to act similarly at work to avoid losing my livelihood.

I think there are a lot of people who are close to getting it, but not quite there yet. And by writing them off we're doing ourselves a disservice. How many of us were there not so long ago, after all, before we peaked? It's by reaching out to those involved with stuff like this that we can change more minds.