# 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:** 477
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 1:18pm 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/979721/477 "2023-02-25T13:18:38Z")
We have a thread about Adams, by the way. > [@Well dang. If you didn't think Scott Adams was a piece of shit before, just look at him now!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277): > > Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has been a bit of a shitbird over the past few years. You can Google the deets, but mostly spouting anti-vax, pro-Trump, Satanic conspiracies in the Democratic party, etc. He’s got a Youtube channel where he likes to natter on about right-wing bullshit. Well yesterday’s video was a doozy. [You can watch it here](https://www.youtube.com/live/K6TnAn7qV1s?feature=share&t=870) (I’ve got it queued up to the 14:30 mark, where he starts his racist rant by claiming that he’s “identified as black for a while, years now…” Not sure wha… --- _[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)._