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9. I still read Lovecraft

Sun Mar 10, 2019, 10:15 AM

Mar 2019

even though he was shockingly racist, even by the standards of his time.

I watched Chinatown again the other day, and we all know what a piece of shit Polanski was.

John Lennon was an asshole, but we all still enjoy the Beatles.

I think it’s fine to separate the art from the artist so long as you don’t use the art to excuse the artist from being subject to the law. Enjoy R Kelly, but don’t insist that he must be innocent for no other reason than you dig his shit. Don’t be that asshole making excuses for Lovecraft, because he was a shitbird who was so racist he even made his contemporaries go “Dafuq?!” Polanski ass-raped a child and should be in a cage, the sublime nature of his work notwithstanding.

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Can you separate the Art from the Artist? [View all] Soph0571 Mar 2019 OP

I've been hearing the same conversations in the US... Dennis Donovan Mar 2019 #1

Saville was horrific Soph0571 Mar 2019 #2

true, not much of an artist. Dennis Donovan Mar 2019 #4

And don't forget Ted Nugent. nt UniteFightBack Mar 2019 #13

for me it depends crazycatlady Mar 2019 #3

I found this article really helpful to think through some of my feelings: WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2019 #5

To appreciate art, one must compartmentalize the artist from the art. no_hypocrisy Mar 2019 #6

Interesting philosophical discussion lillypaddle Mar 2019 #7

I think you have to within reason Buckeyeblue Mar 2019 #8

I still read Lovecraft Codeine Mar 2019 #9

Richard WAGNER; Susan SARANDON UTUSN Mar 2019 #10

Sometimes. Iggo Mar 2019 #11

For me it it hard while the skakery happens during my lifetime. So perhaps it's easier when folks UniteFightBack Mar 2019 #12

I do not like Jon Voight but he's a phenomenal actor on Ray Donovan. chowder66 Mar 2019 #14