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Originally Posted by PepsiFree

You absolutely have to separate the art from the artist, in almost all cases.

I enjoy Bowie, Zeppelin, films that Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey have been involved in. Not to mention the hundreds of films, albums, songs, pieces of art, and many other things abusers, criminals, etc have been involved in or produced.

I understand why some people can't, I don't think any less of them for it, but I enjoy pieces of art for what they are, not who made them. I don't think you have to forgive anyone for what they did, but good things are good things, regardless of anything else, just as bad things are bad things. I think it's important to be able to talk about them together, but with the understanding that they still exist on separate planes.

Do we have to forgive Phil Spector for murdering someone to enjoy the Beatles "Long and winding road"? Or enjoy the countless artists who were inspired by his wall of sound, for example?

I hope not. I don't. But that'd be a shame.

What if the Art comes after the Abuse?

I get not being able to change an emotional attachment to music that pre-exists the allegations of abuse. It’s a different thing to actively enjoy new art and form an emotional attachment to new art with for knowledge of the abuse.