/Rant

So, this drama is all over my Tumblr dash so I thought I would comment on part that is seriously bugging me.
This is a response to this post on Tumblr, discussing the public, social, racist, sexist missteps of award-winning author, John Green.
Now, I'm not going to talk about any of the serious issues because I'm not going to claim to know everything about John Green and I am a privileged white female so I cannot speak to the appropriation claims in a lot of their issues but there is one subject I feel very confident in speaking to.
The accusations that what he writes represents his views on the world.
This is outrageous and stupid. That is it. It is dumb to hold any offensive thing a character in a book, TV show, or movie against the writer. To say that John Green is slut shaming by writing a character who slut shames is ridiculous. To say that John Green would use the term "kafir" in casual and everyday conversation because two characters in his book do is stupid.
The same way that saying an actor who plays a slaveholder or a writer who writes that character is a supporter in slavery is stupid.
Literature is supposed to, in certain genres, mirror our world. There are racists in our world. Real sexists. Real Islamophobics. I'm not saying that these real people are okay. I'm saying that to ask a writer to write every character in a novel as perfect and inoffensive is unrealistic because that's not how the world works.
I have written several racist and sexist characters.
I have written characters who hate Southerners for their actions prior to and during the Civil War even though my entire family is from the South and I couldn't hate them if they tried to kill me.
Obviously, the views of characters do not (always) reflect the views of the author.