Reply #50: The silliest part

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is that every one of them loves some bit of art produced by a homophobe, or a reactionary, or a racist, or a sexist, or whatever -- they just don't know it.

Picasso was a sexist fucking dick, but his quick scribble of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza is one of my favorite bits of 20th illustrative art, bar none.

Morrissey made a few dipshit statements bordering on racism back in the day, but I own every bit of music he's ever made with and without The Smiths.

Death in June has been accused of everything from Nazism to Satanism, but I've spent several thousand bucks on their material over the years.

Examples abound. Art transcends its creator. Always has and always will.