As I tried to state in my initial post: giving a problematic person like Uncle Bob a platform is a political act. Irrespective of whether it was conscious or not. So I wanted to educate as I assumed no bad intentions.
And to summarize the point I'm trying to make: promoting toxic people will drive away lots of underrepresented people from our industry which to me is a massive net loss.
Fortunately a lot of people within the thread can defend my point better than I can.
I prefer to listen rather than to speak up, but in this instance and context I felt it was the right thing to speak up for once to raise awareness in a circle that otherwise might be oblivious to the issue.
And yes the article I linked was certainly not the best. It was simply one example out of many that makes a case of him being problematic as I couldn't find a more canonical piece on the spot.
It's worse. Many (most?) Landlords already established so called shadow rents months or years ago in case the rent cap wasn't legal.
This allows them to retroactively collect the difference of the past rents. So a lot of tenants will now have to pay massive sums to their landlords.
That's why I'm rather reserved in these types of conversations, not because I doubt that my point is valid.