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[–] 31 points 1 month ago (10 children)

You can enjoy art without getting caught up on the artist's views and actions

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Usually I agree, my one exception is Lost Prophets. Ian Watkins crimes were so awful that now when I've tried to listen to their first album (which I loved at release) I just feel sick.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    From what I’ve read it didn’t begin until, like, after their third album. So that’s how I rationalize it, and I hate saying that. But Fake Sound of Progress and Start Something were utterly formative for me, so I’ve gotta cope.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Noone goes from being a normal, functioning, non-paedophile adult to raping babies in a couple of years. That shit escalates over a long time so I don't buy that there weren't signs before then.

    The band mates and label etc may have not realised how depraved he would go on to become but there were 100% signs he had an unnatural interest in children.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah but then you also have artists like J K Rowling who have laid out, in no uncertain terms, that significant amounts of their fortunes are going straight to harming marginalized communities.

    Rowling, in this example, has started an anti trans charity that does not accept external donations, it is fueled solely by Harry Potter money. The only way I'm going to be able to enjoy anything in this vein is if I know that she's not seeing a dime out of it.

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