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Re: Chris Brown, Richard Wagner, Pete Seeger, etc
by fsilber

What do we do when a bad person makes good art? In the days of McCarthyism, many such people were blacklisted. The entertainment industry today employs few people who _aren't_ (by the standards of the 1950s) bad people.

If there are some entertainers whose behavior we still criticize, we can chalk that up to the times simply not having changed enough yet.

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