# Should people avoid consuming art they enjoy from an artist who they dislike or disagree with on a personal level? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 13, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721 "2023-02-13T17:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/21 "2023-02-13T19:29:04Z")
Well, Wagner is dead…I suppose Eastwood gets residuals for Rawhide. I never bought a new Clapaton album. Practically, I believe it doesn’t matter. Clapton and Eastwood wouldn’t miss the money if I boycotted them. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/22 "2023-02-13T19:31:45Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Yes - I do this. Doesn’t mean I avoid every artist I dislike. But I try and do my research on artists whose work I consume. Are you just interested in learning more about these people or are you doing a purity test to make sure it’s okay to spend money on their products? I might be a weirdo, but I’ve never really cared about the personal beliefs of the artist whose work I consume. I don’t really care what Stephen King thinks about global warming, vaccines, or who he votes for. I’m intersted in what he thinks about writing, horror, and other things directly related to his work, but little else. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/23 "2023-02-13T19:33:01Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > But Rowling has gone far beyond that. She doesn’t just “dislike” trans people, she’s using her fame to actively campaign against them, and their rights, pushing an agenda that is known to cause harm to real people. Really? I know she said some things I don’t agree with, but has she gone that far? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/24 "2023-02-13T19:36:24Z")
In this case, the “enrichment” argument seems so insignificant that I can’t really see it influencing me. Rowling is already rich and her platform isn’t going to go away based on this game. Everyone can stop buying every Potterverse thing tomorrow and she’ll still be a billionaire TERF yelling on Twitter. The game has been a runaway success (deservedly so, in my opinion) with the top spot on the Steam sales list and a peak of over 850,000 people playing simultaneously today. That’s just on Steam and not counting PS5, Xbox, Switch, Epic Games Store and whatever other venues it’s being sold through. It’s sitting at a 93% positive rating on Steam. Simply put, my pennies (or fraction thereof) that Rowling may receive are utterly insignificant in the scheme of changing anyone’s opinion. On the other hand, a bunch of other people who put the work into a delightful game will have their salaries and bonuses materially affected by the game sales (though, again, not really by my individual sale). I think it’s a completely valid ethical choice to decide that you don’t want to buy/consume something made, however tangentially, by someone who you disagree with or think is harmful. I don’t think it’s a rational choice to think your sale makes any difference whatsoever in this case. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/25 "2023-02-13T19:37:16Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > So, should we consider an artist’s background before we do something that might give them our money? More, should we disdain those who do consume that art if we dislike the artist? I can’t tell anyone else what to do. And there are certainly cases where I will always love the art, but I have to disdain the artist because I’ve learned they’ve done bad things and refuse to fully apologize or make amends. What I _will not do_ is signal demand for their product. I’ll watch my Louis CK DVD and enjoy it. But I don’t consider his half-ass apology adequate atonement, nor the fact that he was involuntarily sidelined for making money for a year or two (and then came back with tired transphobic material). So I won’t stream or download any of his stuff, or click on his ads or sites, nothing that anyone could interpret as a market signal meaning “I want more of this guy.” Not until he truly makes things right. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/26 "2023-02-13T19:45:57Z")
This kinda sounds like you throwing a piece of trash out the window of your car does not matter. In the grand scheme of things one McDonald’s cup is almost nothing. Therefore, it is ok to do it. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/27 "2023-02-13T19:46:14Z")
Polanski is a weird one for me–what he did was reprehensible but you don’t hear any ongoing reports of him being a sexual predator, he seems to have cleaned up his act considerably. Then I stop to think what it must do to a person to have their pregnant wife murdered and your baby cut out of her–nobody has the innate mental strength to weather that unscathed and it’s pretty understandable for someone to become nihilistic and think that basically nothing matters when measured against such an atrocity. I think he took stock of himself and while he’s not gonna turn himself in to the mercies of the American criminal justice system (and I can’t fault him for that either–I don’t care WHAT you’ve done, American prison is not the place for you, it’s a cesspool of slave labor and abuse) it does seem he’s done the work to come to terms with the Manson murders and has produced some fairly solid work since then. I’m not excusing the man, I’m just saying that I can understand where he was coming from. Hurt people hurt people. My usual method for dealing with problematical people whose work I nonetheless want to check out is that I pirate it. No money for them, keeps my hands clean and no, I do NOT consider pirating IP to be inherently sinful. Don’t bother to take me to task, I’ve done my work and I know where I stand on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/28 "2023-02-13T19:49:16Z")
I’m glad you asked this, because it’s a conversation I have often with friends and family. My conclusion is a firm, “It depends,” and “It’s a personal decision.” The truth is it’s difficult to impossible to only patronize/buy/consume products or services from those you agree with. If that were the case, you probably wouldn’t be buying much. That said, I do my best to not give money to companies I don’t like: Chik-Fil-A and Walmart come to mind. Needless to say, I haven’t hurt them, but I feel good knowing they don’t get my money. For Rowling, I turned against her when the first HP books came out, and my daughter thought Rowling’s advice was good (she was12 or 13 years old). [quote]“And it was all wrinkly and covered in rubbish and the cover was falling off. And I made her go and get him because that is exactly the state I want to see my books in. I have no track with these people, these very anally retentive people, who don’t crack the spine when they read a book. I say crack the spine and read it because that’s what it’s there for.”[/quote] > **[The Magic Behind Harry Potter](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-magic-behind-harry-potter/)** > > Lesley Stahl Interviews Harry Potter Author I was taught to take care of books. Read them, but not treat them like that. The trans stuff just makes her that much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/29 "2023-02-13T19:51:18Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > This kinda sounds like you throwing a piece of trash out the window of your car does not matter. More like throwing a napkin (or declining to throw a napkin) onto an existing mountain of napkins doesn’t realistically matter. Which it doesn’t. Throwing a soda can into the creek has a tangible effect on that portion of the creek. Buying this game does not have a tangible effect on Rowling’s finances. Edit: More to it (and better expressed, I think) is that there is no win condition here attainable by buying or not buying this game. A vote is worth it because a politician will either win or lose. Not littering may be worth it because you want the creek to be clean (or to help it get clean in the future). Those don’t apply here where, again, Rowling is a billionaire and each Potterverse product can crash and burn from now until the end of the world and will make no difference in how Rowling will act, feel or express herself. Not buying this is an act you take to feel good about your act (which is legitimate) but not a way you’re going to influence or change Rowling. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/30 "2023-02-13T19:54:05Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > I think he took stock of himself and while he’s not gonna turn himself in to the mercies of the American criminal justice system (and I can’t fault him for that either–I don’t care WHAT you’ve done, American prison is not the place for you, it’s a cesspool of slave labor and abuse) When Polanski skipped out, he forced the victim to go through the hell of reliving her experience against her will. The state compelled her to testify. Nobody with any soul would force a victim of child rape who really just wanted to get on with her life to have to revisit over and over how Polanski violated her. Sucks what happened to his wife and baby. It’s unspeakable and incomprehensible and yet none of it justifies not only raping a thirteen year old girl but refusing to take accountability for it, so that the only one who suffers, in perpetuity, is his victim. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/31 "2023-02-13T19:58:43Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > As I mentioned before, I spoke to a trans friend of mine who is a huge fan of Harry Potter and they told me despite their issues with Rowling, I would be doing myself a massive disservice not to read the books. > > I still couldn’t bring myself to do it If you take physical books out from a library, which almost certainly bought them before she said anything in public about trans people, Rowling will neither profit from it nor know about it. @NinthAcolyte, would that work for you? – I understand if it doesn’t, but wonder whether it would change your opinion of the person who does that. – I will read things bought used at yard sales, or taken out of a library which bought them some time ago, that are by authors I won’t buy anything new by. I’m also not researching everything; but I don’t buy many new books anyway, for financial reasons. I’m not entirely consistent in what I’ll buy at the grocery store, either. I’ve got a couple of old Clapton CD’s. I’ll probably keep listening to them occasionally. I might buy another from the used-goods store, if I see one there. Mark Twain was actually doing his best to be anti-racist. He was unthinkingly sexist in the way of his time. I have no problem reading Mark Twain; though I wouldn’t any longer hand Huckleberry Finn to a twelve-year-old without a good bit of explanation. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/32 "2023-02-13T19:59:53Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > The comics Dilbert and Zits are no longer on my daily comic feed. I know Scott Adams is a Trumpist nutter, but what’s the story behind the creators of _Zits_? I haven’t heard. Nothing to add to the above except I always loved the HP franchise, but I have too many trans friends, and friends with trans kids, to even comfortably share memes about it on FB any more (there are some great ones). I have the BluRay box set and I think I’ll be able to watch the movies again without thinking about Rowling’s in-your-face bigotry. I used to revere Roger Waters and I love his previous work; it sucks that he’s gone so far off the deep end, but I guess I won’t be buying anything new that he puts out. I think I said this in another similar thread last year, but it’s easier for me when the creator of the source material is the problem than it is when a performer is front and centre. I have a hard time watching Mel Gibson movies these days; if I throw the disc of _Lethal Weapon_ in, I can’t help but watch his performance and wonder if he was glancing at Joel Silver on the set and mentally reciting his favorite bits of The Protocols while the camera was on him. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/33 "2023-02-13T20:00:04Z")
I lived through those years and all I can say is that current views and attitudes were not in place back then. That kind of sexual abuse was incredibly common and universally winked at–there are some men out there who, if they did to a child what was done to me back then, would be facing stiff prison sentences but back then nobody really wanted to look at it or do anything about it. And as a result, a lot of us kind of filed our SA under “Well, that sucked, glad it’s done with” and went on with our lives. Times change, morals change, social attitudes change and while I welcome the increased sensitivity to sexual abuse victims, especially children, I can’t help but think that it’s not exactly fair to use an increased sensitivity lens to view an act that, at the time it happened, was not viewed in the same way. \*_shrug_\* So I’ll go right ahead and pirate Polanski’s movies because whatever else he’s done, he can turn out some very interesting films. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/34 "2023-02-13T20:05:57Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > > So, should we consider an artist’s background before we do something that might give them our money? > > Yes - I do this. Doesn’t mean I avoid every artist I dislike. But I try and do my research on artists whose work I consume. > > > [@](#): > > > > More, should we disdain those who do consume that art if we dislike the artist? > > It depends. Quietly consume the art in your own private space? Not really, that’s on your own conscience. Openly stan for them? That’s more sus. Try and shut me up when I try and raise awareness of whatever it is they did? [Hell, yes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-it-ok-to-say-i-shouldt-care-about-a-creators-morality/687588) The OP’s points above and MrDibble’s take largely follow my own. If I find out someone whose works I enjoy / have enjoyed are on the hook for thoughts or actions I find disagreeable (wide range of possibilities), I do my best to avoid further enriching them. 100%? No, because sometimes they’re tangentially associated, or the work is good enough that I hem and haw and compromise. But it is still -A- factor. If the party in question is dead and thus the funds aren’t going to enrich them directly, then it’s generally an easier ask, but even then, you sometimes have a moment of discomfort when you are otherwise enjoying their works. The second section is where things can get wonky, because some people go Out of their Way to embrace works _because_ of the ideas the creator espouses. I know several ‘Christians’ who were in arms about Harry Potter because witchcraft, but then embraced Rowling due to her stated beliefs. So they made a point of uncancelling her works all of a sudden. So like most human activity, it’s nuanced. Intent matters for the creator, and also the participants in the art. If you’re willing to acknowledge the issues of the creator, and like something despite their attitudes, I won’t judge you harshly. If you support their art because of their attitudes, I’ll generally look upon you with extreme displeasure. If you’re ignorant of the issues, and consider all the facts but still enjoy what you like, well, I may or may not agree, but won’t judge. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/35 "2023-02-13T20:06:03Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Then I stop to think what it must do to a person to have their pregnant wife murdered and your baby cut out of her Nitpick: the baby wasn’t cut out. Atkins later said she thought about it, but couldn’t bring herself to do it. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/36 "2023-02-13T20:06:41Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Are you just interested in learning more about these people or are you doing a purity test to make sure it’s okay to spend money on their products? Why not both? Wait, is “purity test” supposed to be some kind of _bad_ thing? Not when it’s for things I put inside me, it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/37 "2023-02-13T20:07:15Z")
My bad. So not unthinkable, just garden variety horrific then. ---
**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/38 "2023-02-13T20:11:24Z")
I think the easy part is taking your own moral stance on whether to support or not support the artist in question. The not so easy part is making a judgment on other people. If they know the controversy and still buy the product anyway, then I’d say it’s worth calling them out on it, but that’s probably no a hill worth dying on either. In this particular case, Rowling has internalized support of her works as also supporting her trans-phobia. Anyone who buys it to virtue signal their own trans-phobia also deserves whatever is coming to them. The same goes for people who eat at Chick-fil-A specifically because they donate to anti-LGBTQ causes. Frankly I’m with Steve Shives on this one, there’s little excuse to be made for buying the game if you actually support the trans community. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Li0nBhqSKu0/maxresdefault.jpg "How Hard Is It to Not Buy a Video Game?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0nBhqSKu0) > [@Jophiel](#): > > More like throwing a napkin (or declining to throw a napkin) onto an existing mountain of napkins doesn’t realistically matter. Which it doesn’t. “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” ― Voltaire ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/39 "2023-02-13T20:17:36Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > I do my best to avoid further enriching them. 100%? No, because sometimes they’re tangentially associated, or the work is good enough that I hem and haw and compromise. But it is still -A- factor. That’s where I fall on this. This isn’t (to me, YMMV) like watching a comedian or reading a book by an author or listening to an album by a musician who has turned out to be a real shit. Rowling’s connection to this game is that she licensed the IP to WB Games. She didn’t write the story or create the characters (aside from a few tangential side characters in there as Easter Eggs for the HP fans) and it’s not a Rowling product – for those not familiar the game is set about 100+ years before the Harry Potter stuff. It’s licensed fanfic. So I do approach it differently than I would a new Roger Waters album or a Rowling book or Louis CK comedy show. For that matter, there’s game developers who have turned out to be real shits and I wouldn’t buy _their_ games but that’s because _they_ are actually making the games. > [@jjakucyk](#): > > “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” > ― Voltaire The avalanche is long over. Now people are just yelling at snow drifting onto the buried landscape. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721/40 "2023-02-13T20:18:11Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > I can’t help but think that it’s not exactly fair to use an increased sensitivity lens to view an act that, at the time it happened, was not viewed in the same way. **shrug** The problem is not watching or enjoying some controversial person’s art, it is these rationalizations for doing so that inevitably follow. We seem to have a hard time liking the things we like without minimizing the badness of the bad thing that was done. That in turn minimizes it the next time it happens to someone. If it wasn’t a big deal back then, why should it be a big deal now? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-avoid-consuming-art-they-enjoy-from-an-artist-who-they-dislike-or-disagree-with-on-a-personal-level/979721.md?page=3)