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The selection or rejection of art according to the extra-artistic thoughts or behaviour of the artist is a sign of dilettantism.
Any reader who would reject, say, Eliot's Four Quartets because of some non-PC statement he made in a lecture is a poseur - pure and simple: a political beast posing as an art-lover.
It seems equivalent to me as rejecting a pearl on the basis that it formed in slimy guts of an oyster. Such a person is incapable of actually seeing a pearl.
Who cares WHERE or HOW great art comes into being - the fact of it is enough for me.
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