J.K. Rowling has made no secret about her displeasure with Donald Trump. Or did you forget about the time she called him worse than Lord Voldemort? But while the Harry Potter author is still staunchly in the #NeverTrump camp, she took a moment during the PEN America Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to defend his right to be as offensive as he wants to be.

When speaking on the subject of free speech Monday night, Rowling said, “Intolerance of alternative viewpoints is spreading to places that make me, a moderate and a liberal, most uncomfortable. Only last year, we saw an online petition to ban Donald Trump from entry to the U.K. It garnered half a million signatures.” But, she interrupted the cheers and laughs from the audience to come to a conclusion they might not have expected. “I find almost everything that Mr. Trump says objectionable. I consider him offensive and bigoted. But he has my full support to come to my country and be offensive and bigoted there. His freedom to speak protects my freedom to call him a bigot. His freedom guarantees mine.”

Basically Rowling is re-stating a famous quote often misattributed to Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” It’s an old sentiment but one worth repeating, especially to the young, social-media-savvy generation that values Rowling’s opinions so highly. A Pew Research Center study released in November of last year showed that 40 percent of millennials think it would be O.K. for the government to censor offensive speech about minorities. Rowling urges them to view the matter differently.

“Unless we take that absolute position without caveats or apologies, we have set foot upon a road with only one destination,” Rowling said. “If my offended feelings can justify a travel ban on Donald Trump, I have no moral ground on which to argue that those offended by feminism or the fight for transgender rights or universal suffrage should not oppress campaigners for those causes. If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed the line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture, and kill on exactly the same justification.”