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ApocalypticShadowbxn t1_j39deo6 wrote

Reply to comment by iconoclast63 in Should I put Kanye back on my playlist? Is it ok to listen to him? by humphreyspsychedlics

of course you can separate art from artist, but why would you want to? if my favorite artist says some foul shit that I have a moral/ethical issue with, why would I want to separate their art. and how does that separation work? don't you hear the person's voice & the sound of the voice makes you think of the person & if you think of a person who makes you sick, it's gonna remind you how much they make you sick. so yeah, you can say you separate it, but realistically how much do you actually separate. now if you were just a follower who was boycotting an artist because everyone else was, I guess it's easy to separate it, but if a person actually offends you on a moral level, separation isn't so easy

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f10101 t1_j39gflq wrote

> don't you hear the person's voice & the sound of the voice makes you think of the person & if you think of a person who makes you sick, it's gonna remind you how much they make you sick. so yeah, you can say you separate it, but realistically how much do you actually separate

I find this depends on what the artist is singing about. If it's something completely incongruent with their behaviour or beliefs, like say Chris Brown singing about women, I have to switch the song off.

But if it's something entirely unrelated, I don't really tend to get those thoughts as much.

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iconoclast63 t1_j39ek3n wrote

Whatever makes you feel like a better person. I think life is way too short to eliminate the things that make me happy because I disagree with the artist. This notion that everyone who disagrees with you is despicable and worthy of cancellation will be the death of our culture.

The purpose of laws protecting free speech is specifically to protect the speech that offends you. To listen to many people these days this is no longer a value worth defending. That's very sad and will spell doom for our future.

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