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   Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 07:34:55 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

   Since it's going around again thanks to yet another techbro blog post, let me reiterate that "separate the art from the artist" is a literary critiquing tool with a limited, tightly scoped realm of applicability, and is emphatically not a guideline as how to make economic decisions.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 07:34:53 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Said blog post used the term "art" exceedingly widely to lend credibility to the incredibly toxic idea that one should actively ignore the homophobic political organizing of a tech CEO when evaluating the decision as to whether or not to financially support said CEO.

     That in and of itself is a political statement: that the basest demands of capitalism should trump any human interest in the likely outcomes of political organizing. It's a nihilistic view, and should be regarded as such.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 07:34:54 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     If you buy art, you fund the artist to keep making art. If you recommend art, you spend your own credibility endorsing the decision to give that artist money to keep making art. If you publicly display your endorsement of said art, and make your fandom of said art part of your visible identity, then you're dedicating part of your identity to the goal of supporting that artist's political ends.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 04:46:48 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Final thought: go read @charliejane's post from a year ago about separating art from the artist. It's an amazing post, and well worth the read.

     https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/jk-rowling-and-separating-the-art-from-the-artist/