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You need to learn this ability to separate the art from the artist.
Otherwise, what's the point. However, if the work is political, religious, or economic, and you can't separate that, this is completely understandable on some levels. It's more the general side of things that should give you easy separation between art and the artist.
Unrelated but relevant, most of these people who are deleted from existence by AI chatbos are ones who can't separate reality from fiction. I can do this just fine, as I learned how to distinguish between the two.
If the work is being commoditized to promote harmful ideas, then no matter how good the art is, it should be shunned.
If the art is good but the artist used to have problematic views or opinions, then that’s different.
That's why I said "this is completely understandable on some levels" in terms of being unable to separate the harmful stuff.
A lot of people just don't comprehend what I say (usually take it out of context), and I've accepted that reality.
The key issue I had with this is, is sometimes the work itself is none of those things, but the artist is.
Specifically in the case for a certain magical school and the author of said work.
sometimes it's neither, and people read their own beliefs onto things, or they disliked it for a petty reason and need to make up a more substantial reason because they don't want to seem petty to other people.