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  • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago
    1. Benoit is dead, nothing you do will benefit him in any way.

    2. Benoit's actions/views don't affect the art he helped create.

    These are the two big issues for me.

    If someone is shitty IRL, I do not want to fund them in any way. That's just that simple. I don't really care about what someone who died twenty years ago thought unless it leads into the second point.

    If their shitty views or actions are intertwined into the art then I cannot separate it. If I enjoyed a book about a handsome, strong space-man, fighting off the evil race, and then the guy turns out to be a horrible racist, I'd be like "Oh, the aliens are probably black people caricatures and this is a book about race war" and its separation would just be ignoring the context in which it was created and that never feels right to me.

    The "death of the author" only goes so far, sometimes there are unavoidable themes and imagery that have to be examined with their views in mind. You never really think about how Harry Potter has a bunch of rules in the school that allow girls to enter boys dormitories but not the other way round until you combine that with the fact that JK Rowling is a TERF. You never really piece together why she describes Rita Skeeter as a shapeshifter who has a heavy jaw and mannish hands until you take into account what the author believes.

      • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I feel that's another caveat. It's okay to enjoy problematic stuff, especially if it has some nostalgia value for you, but I wouldn't go recommending it.

          • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            On some level of you stop enjoying media because of human suffering then you're going end up watching nothing.

            Pirate when you can, and if you genuinely think it's that bad then it's fair to just not participate at all.

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Nothing worse than the labor that goes into the device you watch it on in the first place.

          • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I consume some media which would have given (a however minuscule amount) of money to someone who is bad.... if I paid for it. Which I didn't.

            This post is brought to you by piracy.

            Other examples: I listen to this liberal podcast called Chapo Trap House, and as liberals I do not wish to give them money. And so I listen to their "premium" episodes for free, thanks to Mother Mary.