# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 277
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 11:04pm 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/979721/277 "2023-02-18T23:04:05Z")
heres the first person i thought of during this whole thing : > [@Roald Dahl was anti-semitic? Who knew?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roald-dahl-was-anti-semitic-who-knew/927485/14): > > Assuming I’m okay with removing the racist and sexist stuff, I don’t really have a problem with them removing the fat stuff, as Dahl seems to almost always depict it as villainous and/or gross. The main issue I have is the quality of the replacements. The Telegraph citation purports to lists all of the changes. Sometimes they seem to care to the lyricalness of Dahl’s work, but sometimes it’s entirely lifeless. Sometimes they try to keep as much of the original text as possible, and other times … I mean I could tell just by reading charlie … he could be a mean bastard and various accounts have pretty much confirmed it --- _[View the full topic](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)._