While I know that there's no such thing as notability, I'm pretty sure we can get across the message of "some people wish there was more light in A Song of Ice and Fire" without advertising the work of and linking to an interview with a barely concealed white supremacist and open Christian nationalist? I'm pretty sure we could find someone who has said that who is not best known for saying that a black author is a subhuman savage? Because even discounting the obvious and important moral issues of amplifying this person, there's the fact that everything he's done in fandom circles has been inclined to wreck stuff he doesn't like, and if you invite a wrecker into a place you'd rather not be wrecked, you'll very likely regret it.
If he was the only thinker on the subject, or a luminary along the lines of Orson Scott Card (also an awful, awful person, but with a history of well-regarded art), it would be inevitable that he should have attention paid to him; in the case of someone who's published only by a publishing house he owns, whose strongest impact on SF is "lost to No Award", I don't think it's too much to consider standards.
While I know that there's no such thing as notability, I'm pretty sure we can get across the message of "some people wish there was more light in A Song of Ice and Fire" without advertising the work of and linking to an interview with a barely concealed white supremacist and open Christian nationalist? I'm pretty sure we could find someone who has said that who is not best known for saying that a black author is a subhuman savage? Because even discounting the obvious and important moral issues of amplifying this person, there's the fact that everything he's done in fandom circles has been inclined to wreck stuff he doesn't like, and if you invite a wrecker into a place you'd rather not be wrecked, you'll very likely regret it.
If he was the only thinker on the subject, or a luminary along the lines of Orson Scott Card (also an awful, awful person, but with a history of well-regarded art), it would be inevitable that he should have attention paid to him; in the case of someone who's published only by a publishing house he owns, whose strongest impact on SF is "lost to No Award", I don't think it's too much to consider standards.