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Rich,
Of course you can't be required to support something that you disagree with. Nobody, least of all me, is saying that you can or should.
What I'm saying is that I choose not to buy John Ringo's books in which he expresses his extremist right-wing views because for me those views spoil the story. I have no problem with the fact that he holds those views, even though I vehemently disagree with them, and I continue to read and enjoy those books which he doesn't use as a platform for political diatribe. Ie, I judge the product, not the views of the author. That, for me personally, is the right way to tackle this. Tell Mr. Card that it's not OK to express his views in his books by not buying those books in which he does express them (if indeed there are such books); what he does in his non-writing life is, for me, his own affair.
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