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I’ve seen this “separate the artist from the art” line of reasoning. I personally feel icky knowing that my money is going towards someone who has a pattern of
by unsatchmo 8y ago
I’ve seen this “separate the artist from the art” line of reasoning. I personally feel icky knowing that my money is going towards someone who has a pattern of bad action. Art is about culture and culture is about shared stories. The fact is that call-outs work because they change the story. This is what silent spring and the jungle did during the muck-raking era and it had the objectively positive effect of punishing companies for externalising costs at the expense of public health.
Me too is just muck-raking for our modern era, focusing on interpersonal externalities.
- arduanika 8y agoYup, it's your prerogative to feel icky. Personally, I'd feel icky artificially withholding money from these people's colleagues because they were unlucky enough to work on a movie set with someone who subsequently came under suspicion. If the platforms didn't infantilize us, we'd be allowed to make up our own minds as to what's icky, because it turns out that not everyone has the same feelings. Also: did anything in my comment follow the “separate the artist from the art” line of reasoning that you speak of? I'm pretty sure my comment wasn't about the naughty artists. I'm pretty sure it was about the actual victims.
- sayno3 8y agoThe salient point when comparing modern SJW mobs with muck-raking journalism is the ease with which information spreads and the highly effective propaganda (which wasn't even a concept). We are at a turning point where one large portion of society knows how to use photoshop and another large portion will believe anything mildly illusory put in front of them.