We seem to have wandered far from the topic. The overall point that some great poetry/art/music has come from unsavoury sources has been generally accepted. And, as Roger says, nobody on this thread has talked of rejecting Eliot's poetry because of his politics or racism or whatever: indeed, everyone seems to have bent over backwards to state the reverse.
A general comment on the term PC. I don't remember ever seeing this term used other than satirically, by people opposed to it. But most of the time when people refer to PC, they seem to be talking about what used to be known very simply as courtesy: not causing unwarranted offence.
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