Article by Anime Feminist: “How do you react when you find out one of the main creative forces behind something you love is, to not mince words, a completely shit person?”

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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    1 year ago

    While I agree that pirating stuff is A-okay under such circumstances, consuming certain stuff is - IMO - also sending a message to other people and that’s something I personally care about. YMMV

    • chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I think a lot of it depends on what ‘aspect’ of their person features most strongly in their work.

      To pick a specific example: Ronald Dahl was a virulent anti-semite. And yet he was also clearly someone with a significant degree of empathy for children, after he himself suffered abuse at boarding school. His works come from this angle, seeking to provide children with the catharsis of seeing retributive justice done to evil adults. He also shows class conscience in books like “Danny, the champion of the world”.

      I would argue that it is the ideas conveyed in a work that make it worthy, or unworthy, of consumption, rather than the author themselves.

      As an aside, you may be interested in the works of the writer/philosopher Iris Murdoch, who does have something to say on this topic, around ‘can bad people produce good art’.