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Is there an artist so horrible that no matter how hard you try that you cannot separate their art from them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Similar to the recent question about artists where you can successfully separate them from their art. Are there any artists who did something so horrible, so despicable, that it has instantly invalidated all art that they have had any part in?

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[+] [email protected] -30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

For anyone thinking about listening to this podcast, it still platforms a lot of her crazy ideas. The following excerpt is from near the end of this article.

March 2023: A new podcast, The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, produced by Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and hosted by prominent former Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Phelps-Roper, featured interviews with Rowling. In its fifth episode, Rowling begins discussing the modern trans rights movement, calling it “a cultural movement that was illiberal in its methods and questionable in its ideas” and insisting, “I believe, absolutely, that there is something dangerous about this movement and that it must be challenged.” She then compares the movement to Death Eaters — the villainous supremacists in her books, analogous to Nazis...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Bari Weiss is not someone to give your time to so thanks for posting that. Nearly everything she writes now is dishonest and she pretends to espouse liberal ideas while constantly taking conservative positions and then calling herself a “left-leaning centrist”. It’s hot garbage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wouldn’t call it good. Contrapoints covered that podcast here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I listened to the podcast. The interviewer doesn’t challenge Rowling at all and simply lets her speak/answer with her incorrect assumptions. However it also shined a light on how badly thought out her ideas are and how informed she is, not by empathy, but by her own prejudice. After listening, I became even more confident in my opinion of Rowling.

I also think it’s worth a listen is you can swallow your bile for the first few episodes.