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I disagree. We're perfectly capable of judging an act on its own merits. Orson Scott Card is a good author. Orson Scott Card is a bigot, and I do not ever wi
by bmelton 8y ago
I disagree. We're perfectly capable of judging an act on its own merits.
Orson Scott Card is a good author.
Orson Scott Card is a bigot, and I do not ever wish to give him any money, so I will not buy his books now that I know of his bigotry.
His bigotry doesn't cancel out his talent as an author, and while I might find that I don't enjoy reading his books any more as a result of what I know of him, that doesn't change what my opinion was before I found out about his bigotry.
A good act is a good act, even if it's surrounded by a dozen bad acts.
- perfmode 8y agohe didn’t use his talent as a smoke screen. so those good deeds aren’t poisoned by the bigotry. if you found out that he set out to make stellar art for the explicit purpose of softening people to his bigotry, then it would be a smoke screen.