For me, the biggest problem with tfios was the anne frank house scene. like, as a jewish person it made me very angry that he would write a disrespectful scene like that and then he goes and says things about anne frank, basically uses her as a prop and erases the fact that her illness came from being in a concentration camp was the last straw for me
oh man i forgot about that. yeah it was cringy, i know he got like, permission from the house for the movie scene, idk if he ever said anything about the book scene (he probably did but i’m not going to go searching for anything)
so i mean i can’t really defend that, and it was a bad idea, like they really could have had that kiss scene literally anywhere else and the “aww how cute” affect would have stayed, and i’m not sure if he ever actually apologized without defending it to a degree
basically people fuck up, and sometimes they fuck up to the point where you can’t defend it (and shouldn’t try defending it)