Contrapositives

Almost a year ago I wrote this

This also goes for "I love fandom A, but if you hold position Z [on an RL issue that doesn't really come up in the work], then you're not allowed to like it." Sometimes a diffuse work of fiction is going to appeal to people with different beliefs and behaviors, and you can't really prevent that! It's fine to say "I think this position is reprehensible," period, unrelated to your opinions on anything else. But trying to police who is allowed to enjoy the same things as you is sort of a backwards no-true-Scotsman fallacy.
 

The contrapositive of that is "If you don't hold bad-and-wrong position Z, then you totally should get into fandom A." Usually in the context of "because the creator of fandom A is a super progressive and good person!" And that's, like, also a problem, because just because someone has some similar opinions to you doesn't mean they're going to find the same fictional tropes enjoyable. (Again, especially when the issue in question isn't really related to the work of fiction.) I will repeat that it's not my place to gatekeep, so anyone should feel free to get into or out of any fandom for any reason. But if I see a bunch of people flock to my fandom because "I heard it was produced by a morally righteous person," I'm not going to be super enthused. Partly because that's often in the context of "everyone is either the best or the worst," so the goalposts may shift against that creator soon. And partly because it has all the enthusiasm of an "eat your vegetables" kind of fandom, except that these vegetables aren't even in the fandom in question. (Though it can sometimes occur in a similar context of "this pseudo-'representation' counts and is valid, this other pseudo-representation is unacceptable, I have said so because I am the ultimate decider.")

Ah well.