Nah! I couldn’t support someone’s work if I knew they are monsters even if just behind close doors they switch to Mr Hyde. It’s a slippery slope, because for me ignoring the elephant in the room, the crime, is like being an accomplice in the degradation of our morals and virtues, what remains in the current world. Where do we draw the line? If we accent their art, but know they’re a monster, a criminal doing horrendous things to other people, where are our principles? Or is this act of accepting their art the start of a slippery slope in pushing aside the crimes.
I think the question is, do the crimes outweigh the art? If the crime is that horrendous that it casts a shadow on the works of art, then there is where we’ve drawn our moral line in the sand, that we do not cross even if it means boycotting their art to stand up against what’s wrong - it’s the only way I can see that we undo the wrongs and try and prevent it from happening again in the future is by absolutely not supporting and tolerating those crimes regardless of what awards or accolades or cultural contributions they may have done in their life. They mean nothing when you were playing the long con and the victims were at the end of that con
Hi Alythia, I found this through a link you’d posted in a comment section. Wanted to say how a read powerful this was
Thank you for your voice. This was really well written.
Nah! I couldn’t support someone’s work if I knew they are monsters even if just behind close doors they switch to Mr Hyde. It’s a slippery slope, because for me ignoring the elephant in the room, the crime, is like being an accomplice in the degradation of our morals and virtues, what remains in the current world. Where do we draw the line? If we accent their art, but know they’re a monster, a criminal doing horrendous things to other people, where are our principles? Or is this act of accepting their art the start of a slippery slope in pushing aside the crimes.
I think the question is, do the crimes outweigh the art? If the crime is that horrendous that it casts a shadow on the works of art, then there is where we’ve drawn our moral line in the sand, that we do not cross even if it means boycotting their art to stand up against what’s wrong - it’s the only way I can see that we undo the wrongs and try and prevent it from happening again in the future is by absolutely not supporting and tolerating those crimes regardless of what awards or accolades or cultural contributions they may have done in their life. They mean nothing when you were playing the long con and the victims were at the end of that con