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You can't separate art from the artist (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you don't like X but like X's work, there's a good chance X's views and politics are in said work. For example, I occasionally watch Act Man videos mostly to figure out what is going on with gaming and how it got ruined (not killed), but as you can probably guess he is a well-known anti-SJW chud and I have actually seen his politics in some of his videos like his infamous Feminists and SJWs vs video games. Another YouTuber I watch often called ThunderStruck115 is a lib given in videos with sections where he does talk abt politics (keep in mind he mostly makes response videos to usually bad takes in video games) it's pretty much enlightened centrist.

Another example is Call of Duty. You may like the gameplay and experience but the politics are still there. It still whitewashes the West including it's subjugation of the third world. Side note: This isn't to say gameplay shouldn't be ignored, it should take precedence over everything else including politics.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean I guess that depends on the medium. The creator's political positions are generally less present in drawings for example.

Though as a rabid book enjoyer, I must admit that I abandoned quite a few due to their political undertones. A nice example would be World War Z, which despite being well written (at the beginning at least) contains so much american propaganda that I sometimes got the feeling that the author had a checklist. As far as I remember, every enemy of the US is bastardized, except maybe Iran. And of course there's bootlicking for Israel and the US.

But even then, guessing that the author is a reactionary doesn't necessarily make their work unreadable, it depends on how much they let their thoughts transpire into their works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

The creator’s political positions are generally less present in drawings for example.

You'd think that, but choice of subject matter and style will reflect a person's politics and upbringing, as well as the context in which they make their art. Pablo Picasso, for example, with the famous Guernica and his propaganda work The Dream and Lie of Franco.