Similar to the recent question about artists where you can successfully separate them from their art. Are there any artists who did something so horrible, so despicable, that it has instantly invalidated all art that they have had any part in?

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    11 months ago

    To be fair, it wasn’t Dave’s idea or something he supported.

    And yet he kept mendel in the band, and had the message plastered on their website.

    Thats not something you get to handwave away with even the grossest incompetence claim.

    Mendel was even quoted saying that the only reason he did it was because he thought he was helping people, not hurting them.

    I mean, yeah. he likes his career, of course he says that.

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      11 months ago

      No one is hand waving anything away. Nate is a member of the band. The message on the website was clear that it was his message.

      You make it seem like people can’t change their views based on new information. It’s not like they could go back in time and not do those things after the fact. They’ve done far more in support of AIDS education. It’s not fair to vilify them for something they did for a few years while ignoring everything they’ve done since for more than 20 years.

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        11 months ago

        You make it seem like people can’t change their views based on new information.

        I never said or implied that.

        I said you cant handwave away or excuse Grohls involvement, and that a person who values their career has an incentive to say a certain thing after being called out for being a piece of shit.

        Anything beyond that is just your fiction.

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          11 months ago

          Except you did. You’re literally on a discussion where you posted Dave Grohl because of something he was a part of for maybe 2 or 3 years that wasn’t even his idea to begin with while ignoring everything he’s done for 20+ years since.

          And now you’re being dishonest about it.