I don't love that every time a famous artist turns out to be a fucking disgusting piece of trash loser evil shitstain that everyone always scrambles to say WELL THEIR ART WAS ALWAYS MID AND BAD ANYWAY. like dude just reckon with the fact you can't judge someone's moral fiber based on the art they make or the clothes they wear or the way they speak or fucking anything anything at all
said it before and i'll say it again: this behavior is victim blaming under the thinnest coat of weakass paint
it's "I saw it coming a mile away, why didn't you?"
Sometimes bad people make good art, sometimes very good people make absolutely dogshit art. In order to live in the world, we have to learn to reconcile those things.
There is no magic that makes a good artist a good person, just the same as there is no piece of art so good that it can force a person from an abuser to an angel. Plenty of Nazis grew up shouting along to Rage Against The Machine, and some of the kindest people you may ever meet can have been raised on conservative talk radio and megachurch media. People are complicated.
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