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Really, we don't even know the personal lives of most artists and can guess that most have something to get outraged over. So there's a point that tossing art f
by swatcoder 4y ago
Really, we don't even know the personal lives of most artists and can guess that most have something to get outraged over. So there's a point that tossing art for the sins of an artist whose sins happen to be public is just a way of feeling like you're in control of something rather than application of some moral justice. But that’s a personal choice and fully justifiable.
But different circumstances are different. In the case of Dilbert, Adams has been putting his unpopular politics into the strip (see "Dave the Black Engineer" as the buzz-worthy example). And while there have been plenty of politically vocal and sometimes controversial comics (Doonesbury), I think a lot of newspapers just don't want to deal with a difficult guy and his toxic reputation anymore. Sometimes annoying people get fired or lose their contracts because what they provide isn't worth the trouble anymore. That's what this seems to be.
- colanderman 4y agoI think there's also the unstated assumption that artists with privately held unsavory beliefs maybe also hold those beliefs loosely, and could feasibly come to recognize those beliefs as such. (Or hypothetically could have, in the case of deceased artists.) Whereas artists who are vocal in their unsavory beliefs tend also to hold them strongly -- to the point of doubling down in the face of consequences as Scott Adams has done. Personally, I have no qualms about moving on from artists whose strongly held personal beliefs unsettle me. There are plenty of other great artists on the world.